Psalm 81

21st Century King James Version

81 Sing aloud unto God our strength; make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

² Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

³ Blow the trumpet in the new moon, at the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

⁴ For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

⁵ This He ordained in Joseph as a testimony, when He went out through the land of Egypt, where I heard a language that I understood not:

⁶ “I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were delivered from the pots.

⁷ Thou called in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder. I tested thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah

⁸ Hear, O My people, and I will testify unto thee, O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto Me!

⁹ There shall be no strange god among thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

¹⁰ I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt. Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

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

¹² So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust, and they walked in their own counsels.

¹³ Oh that My people had hearkened unto Me, and Israel had walked in My ways!

¹⁴ I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned My and against their adversaries.”

¹⁵ The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto Him, but their time should have endured for ever.

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.”