| 81.1 |
Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob! |
| 81.2 |
Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp. |
| 81.3 |
Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day. |
| 81.4 |
For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob. |
| 81.5 |
He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know. |
| 81.6 |
“I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket. |
| 81.7 |
You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.” Selah. |
| 81.8 |
“Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me! |
| 81.9 |
There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god. |
| 81.10 |
I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. |
| 81.11 |
But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me. |
| 81.12 |
So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels. |
| 81.13 |
Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! |
| 81.14 |
I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries. |
| 81.15 |
The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever. |
| 81.16 |
But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.” |
