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

¹To the Overseer. --`On the Gittith.' By Asaph. Cry aloud to God our strength, Shout to the God of Jacob.+ ²Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with psaltery.+ ³Blow in the month a trumpet, In the new moon, at the day of our festival,+ ⁴For a statute to Israel it is, An ordinance of the God of Jacob.+ ⁵A testimony on Joseph He hath placed it, In his going forth over the land of Egypt. A lip, I have not known--I hear.+ ⁶From the burden his shoulder I turned aside, His hands from the basket pass over.+ ⁷In distress thou hast called and I deliver thee, I answer thee in the secret place of thunder, I try thee by the waters of Meribah. Selah.+ ⁸Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me:+ ⁹There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god.+ ¹⁰I am Jehovah thy God, Who bringeth thee up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge thy mouth, and I fill it.+ ¹¹But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me.+ ¹²And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.+ ¹³O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.+ ¹⁴As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand,+ ¹⁵Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is--to the age.+ ¹⁶He causeth him to eat of the fat of wheat, And with honey from a rock I satisfy thee!+

Sing for Joy to God Our Strength

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