Psalms - Chapter 81 - A Conservative Version
- Sing aloud to God our strength. Make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.
- Raise a song, and bring here the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
- Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast-day.
- For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
- He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony when he went out over the land of Egypt, [where] I heard a language that I knew not.
- I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.
- Thou called in trouble, and I delivered thee. I answered thee in the secret place of thunder. I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
- Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee, O Israel, if thou would hearken to me!
- There shall no strange god be in thee, nor shall thou worship any foreign god.
- I am LORD thy God who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
- But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me.
- So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, that they might walk in their own counsels.
- O that my people would hearken to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
- I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
- (The haters of LORD feign obedience to him, but their time is forever.)
- He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat. And I would satisfy thee with honey out of the rock.