Psalms, 81

To the director upon the Gitʹtith.^*1 Of Aʹsaph.

¹ O cry out joyfully, YOU people, to God our strength; Shout in triumph to the God of Jacob.

² Strike up a melody and take a tambourine, The pleasant harp together with the stringed instrument.

³ On the new moon, BLOW the horn;^*1 On the full moon, for the day of our festival.

⁴ For it is a regulation for Israel, A judicial decision of the God^*1 of Jacob.

⁵ As a reminder he laid it upon Joseph himself, When he was going forth over the land of Egypt. A language^*1 that I did not know I kept hearing.

⁶ “I^*1 turned aside his shoulder even from [the] burden; His own hands got to be free even from the basket.

⁷ In distress you called, and I proceeded to rescue you; I began to answer you in the concealed place of thunder. I went examining you at the waters of Merʹi·bah. Seʹlah.

⁸ Hear, O my people, and I will bear witness against you, O Israel, if you will listen to me.

⁹ Among you there will prove to be no strange god;^*1 And you will not bow down to a foreign god.

¹⁰ I, Jehovah, am your God,^*1 The One bringing you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I shall fill it.

¹¹ But my people has not listened to my voice; And Israel itself has not showed any willingness toward me.

¹² And so I let them go^*1 in the stubbornness of their heart; They went walking in their own counsels.

¹³ O that my people were listening to me, O that Israel itself would walk in my very ways!

¹⁴ Their enemies I would easily subdue, And against their adversaries I would turn my hand.

¹⁵ As for those intensely hating Jehovah, they will come cringing to him, And their time will prove to be to time indefinite.

¹⁶ And he will keep feeding him off the fat of the wheat, And out of the rock I shall satisfy you with honey itself.”