Psalms

81:1		Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
81:2		Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
81:3		Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
81:4		For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
81:5		This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
81:6		I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
81:7		Thou 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.
81:8		Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
81:9		There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
81:10		I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
81:11		But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
81:12		So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
81:13		Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
81:14		I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
81:15		The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
81:16		He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.