The Book of Psalms 81

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1 Sing aloud unto God our strength make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob ⚑

2 Take a psalm and bring hither the timbrel the pleasant harp with the psaltery ⚑

3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon in the time appointed on our solemn feast day ⚑

4 For this was a statute for Israel and a law of the God of Jacob ⚑

5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony when he went out through the land of Egypt where I heard a language that I understood not ⚑

6 I removed his shoulder from the burden his hands were delivered from the pots ⚑

7 Thou calledst in trouble and I delivered thee I answered thee in the secret place of thunder I proved thee at the waters of Meribah Selah ⚑

8 Hear O my people and I will testify unto thee O Israel if thou wilt hearken unto me ⚑

9 There shall no strange god be in thee neither shalt thou worship any strange god ⚑

10 I am the LORD thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt open thy mouth wide and I will fill it ⚑

11 But my people would not hearken to my voice and Israel would none of me ⚑

12 So I gave them up unto their own earts’ lust and they walked in their own counsels ⚑

13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me and Israel had walked in my ways ⚑

14 I should soon have subdued their enemies and turned my hand against their adversaries ⚑

15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him but their time should have endured for ever ⚑

16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain