Psalm 81:1-16
To the director upon the Gitʹtith.*+ Of Aʹsaph.
81 O cry out joyfully, YOU people, to God our strength;+Shout in triumph to the God of Jacob.+
2 Strike up a melody+ and take a tambourine,+The pleasant harp together with the stringed instrument.+
3 On the new moon, BLOW the horn;*+On the full moon, for the day of our festival.+
4 For it is a regulation for Israel,+A judicial decision of the God* of Jacob.
5 As a reminder he laid it upon Joseph himself,+When he was going forth over the land of Egypt.+A language* that I did not know I kept hearing.+
6 “I* turned aside his shoulder even from [the] burden;+His own hands got to be free even from the basket.+
7 In distress you called, and I proceeded to rescue you;+I began to answer you in the concealed place of thunder.+I went examining you at the waters of Merʹi·bah.+ Seʹlah.
8 Hear, O my people, and I will bear witness against you,+O Israel, if you will listen to me.+
9 Among you there will prove to be no strange god;*+And you will not bow down to a foreign god.+
10 I, Jehovah, am your God,*+The One bringing you up out of the land of Egypt.+Open your mouth wide, and I shall fill it.+
11 But my people has not listened to my voice;+And Israel itself has not showed any willingness toward me.+
12 And so I let them go* in the stubbornness of their heart;+They went walking in their own counsels.+
13 O that my people were listening to me,+O that Israel itself would walk in my very ways!+
14 Their enemies I would easily subdue,+And against their adversaries I would turn my hand.+
15 As for those intensely hating Jehovah, they will come cringing to him,+And their time will prove to be to time indefinite.
16 And he will keep feeding him off the fat of the wheat,+And out of the rock I shall satisfy you with honey+ itself.”
Footnotes
^ Compare 8:Sup ftn.
^ Or, “shofar.” Heb., shoh·pharʹ.
^ “Tents,” by transposing two Heb. letters to correspond with the first half of the vs.
^ “I,” MTSy; LXXVg, “He.”
^ “God.” Heb., ʼel.
^ Or, “I am Jehovah your God.” Heb., ʼa·no·khiʹ Yehwahʹ ʼElo·heyʹkha.
