King James VersionPsalms81

Psalms

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 hearts' 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.