Psalms, Chapter 81

1. Shout ye for joy, unto God our strength, Sound the note of triumph, to the God of Jacob;    2. Raise a melody, and strike the timbrel, The lyre so sweet, with the harp:    3. Blow, at the new moon, the horn, At the full moon, for the day of our sacred festival:    4. For, a statute to Israel, it is, A regulation, by the God of Jacob;    5. A testimony in Joseph, he appointed it, When he went forth over the land of Egypt: A language I liked not, used I to hear;    6. I took away, from the burden, his shoulder, his hands, from the clay, were set free.    7. In distress, thou didst cry, and I delivered thee, -- I answered thee, within a hiding-place of thunder, I proved thee by the waters of Meribah. [Selah.]    8. Hear, O my people, and I will adjure thee, O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me!    9. There shall not be, within thee, a foreign GOD, -- Neither shalt thou bow down to a strange GOD:    10. I, Yahweh, am thy God, Who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, -- Open wide thy mouth, that I may fill it.    11. But my people, hearkened not, unto my voice, Even, Israel, inclined not unto me.    12. So then I let them go on in the stubbornness of their own heart,[ -- ] They might walk in their own counsels!    13. If, my people, were hearkening unto me, [If,] Israel, in my ways, would walk,    14. Right soon, their foes, would I subdue, And, against their adversaries, would I turn my hand:    15. The haters of Yahweh, should come cringing unto him, Then let their own good time be age-abiding!    16. Then would he feed them from the marrow of the wheat, Yea, out of the rock -- with honey, would I satisfy thee.