Psalm 81:1 · WEB

Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!

Psalm 81:2 · WEB

Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.

Psalm 81:3 · WEB

Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.

Psalm 81:4 · WEB

For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

Psalm 81:5 · WEB

He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know.

Psalm 81:6 · WEB

“I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.

Psalm 81:7 · WEB

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.

Psalm 81:8 · WEB

“Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!

Psalm 81:9 · WEB

There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.

Psalm 81:10 · WEB

I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”

Psalm 81:11 · WEB

But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

Psalm 81:12 · WEB

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

Psalm 81:13 · WEB

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

Psalm 81:14 · WEB

I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.

Psalm 81:15 · WEB

The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.

“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”

Psalm 81:16 · WEB

But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”