Psalms 81 · Clearspring

For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. + 81:1 Gittith is probably a musical or liturgical term; here and in Psalms 8 and 84. Of Asaph.

Sing for Joy to God Our Strength

¹Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!+ ²Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.+ ³Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.+ ⁴For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.+ ⁵He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know.+ ⁶“I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.+ ⁷You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.” Selah.+ ⁸“Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!+ ⁹There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.+ ¹⁰I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.+ ¹¹But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.+ ¹²So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.+ ¹³Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!+ ¹⁴I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.+ ¹⁵The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.+ ¹⁶But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”+

Sing for Joy to God Our Strength

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