📖 Psalms 81
-
1
For the music director; according to the gittith style; by Asaph. Shout for joy to God, our source of strength! Shout out to the God of Jacob!
-
2
Sing a song and play the tambourine, the pleasant sounding harp, and the ten-stringed instrument!
-
3
Sound the ram’s horn on the day of the new moon, and on the day of the full moon when our festival begins.
-
4
For observing the festival is a requirement for Israel; it is an ordinance given by the God of Jacob.
-
5
He decreed it as a regulation in Joseph, when he attacked the land of Egypt. I heard a voice I did not recognize.
-
6
It said:“I removed the burden from his shoulder; his hands were released from holding the basket.
-
7
In your distress you called out and I rescued you. I answered you from a dark thundercloud. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.(Selah)
-
8
I said,‘Listen, my people! I will warn you! O Israel, if only you would obey me!
-
9
There must be no other god among you. You must not worship a foreign god.
-
10
I am the LORD, your God, the one who brought you out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will fill it!’
-
11
But my people did not obey me; Israel did not submit to me.
-
12
I gave them over to their stubborn desires; they did what seemed right to them.
-
13
If only my people would obey me! If only Israel would keep my commands!
-
14
Then I would quickly subdue their enemies, and attack their adversaries.”
-
15
(May those who hate the LORD cower in fear before him! May they be permanently humiliated!)
-
16
“I would feed Israel the best wheat, and would satisfy your appetite with honey from the rocky cliffs.”