Psalms

81 Shout for God our strength,

cheer for Jacob’s God!

2 Strike up music and sound tambourine,

dulcet lyre with harp,

3 Blow the ram-horn at the new moon,

at the full, on the day of our feast.

4 For that is an institution of Israel’s,

a due of Jacob’s God.

5 He made it a commemoration in Joseph

when he went out over Egypt.

I heard a lip I had not known,

6 “I let his shoulder turn away from the load;

his hands shall pass the basket by;

7 You called in distress, and I have rescued you.

I will answer you through a screen of thunder;

I will test you at a water of dispute. [Selah]

8 Listen, my people, and let me testify to you;

Israel, if you will listen to me,

9 Have no strange deity among you

and not do reverence to any foreign deity,

10 I Jehovah am your God,

who am bringing you up out of Egypt;

open your mouth wide and I will fill it.

11 But does my people not listen to my voice,

will Israel not have me,

12 I will turn them loose to their willful wicked way;

they shall go by their own contrivances.

13 If my people did listen to me,

Israel did go my ways,

14 Readily would I humble their enemies

and bring my hand back against their foes.

15 Those who hate Israel should cringe to him

and their disaster be forever.

16 I would feed him out of the richest of wheat

and give you out of rocks your fill of honey.”