Chapter 81

¹{To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. [A Psalm] of Asaph.} Sing ye joyously unto God our strength, shout aloud unto the God of Jacob; ²Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with the lute. ³Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the set time, on our feast day: ⁴For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob; ⁵He ordained it in Joseph [for] a testimony, when he went forth over the land of Egypt, [where] I heard a language that I knew not. ⁶I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from the basket. ⁷Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah. ⁸Hear, my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me! ⁹There shall no strange god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any foreign god. ¹⁰I am Jehovah thy God, that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. ¹¹But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me. ¹²So I gave them up unto their own hearts` stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels. ¹³Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had walked in my ways! ¹⁴I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. ¹⁵The haters of Jehovah would have come cringing unto him; but their time would have been for ever. ¹⁶And he would have fed them with the finest of wheat; yea, with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied thee.