📖 Psalms 81
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Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!
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Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.
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Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
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For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
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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.
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"I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.
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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.
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"Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!
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There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.
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I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
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But my people didn't listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
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So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
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Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
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I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
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The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.
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But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock." A Psalm by Asaph.