Psalm 81

Revised Geneva Translation

81 Sing joyfully to God our strength! Sing loud to the God of Jacob!

² Take the song and bring forth the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the viol.

³ Blow the trumpet on the New Moon, in the time appointed at our Feast day.

⁴ For this is a statute for Israel, a Law of the God of Jacob.

⁵ He set this in Joseph for a testimony. When He came out of the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I did not understand.

⁶ “I have withdrawn his shoulder from the burden. His hands have left the pots.

⁷ “You called in affliction and I delivered you, answered you in the secret of the thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

⁸ “Hear, O My people, and I will testify to you, O Israel, if you will listen to me

⁹ “and will have no strange god in you or worship any strange god

¹⁰ “(for I am the LORD your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt). Open your mouth wide and I will fill it!

¹¹ “But My people would not hear My voice, and Israel would have none of Me.

¹² “So, I gave them up to the hardness of their heart, and they have walked in their own counsels.

¹³ “Oh that My people had listened to me, and Israel had walked in My ways!

¹⁴ “I would soon have humbled their enemies and turned My hand against their adversaries.

¹⁵ “The haters of the LORD will feign subjection to Him, but their time would endure forever.

¹⁶ “And I would have fed them with the fat of wheat, and with honey out of the rock would I have sufficed you.” A Psalm committed to Asaph