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sound the tambourine,</span><br /><span class="indent">the sweet lyre with the harp.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Blow the trumpet at the new moon,</span><br /><span class="indent">at the full moon, on our feast day.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For it is a statute for Israel,</span><br /><span class="indent">a rule<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or just decree">b</a></sup></span> of the God of Jacob.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He made it a decree in Joseph</span><br /><span class="indent">when he went out over<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or against">c</a></sup></span> the land of Egypt.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I hear a language I had not known:</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“I relieved your<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew his; also next line">d</a></sup></span> shoulder of the burden;</span><br /><span class="indent">your hands were freed from the basket.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">In distress you called, and I delivered you;</span><br /><span class="indent">I answered you in the secret place of thunder;</span><br /><span class="indent">I tested you at the waters of Meribah. <selah>Selah</selah></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Hear, O my people, while I admonish you!</span><br /><span class="indent">O Israel, if you would but listen to me!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">There shall be no strange god among you;</span><br /><span class="indent">you shall not bow down to a foreign god.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God,</span><br /><span class="indent">who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.</span><br /><span class="indent">Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“But my people did not listen to my voice;</span><br /><span class="indent">Israel would not submit to me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,</span><br /><span class="indent">to follow their own counsels.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Oh, that my people would listen to me,</span><br /><span class="indent">that Israel would walk in my ways!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I would soon subdue their enemies</span><br /><span class="indent">and turn my hand against their foes.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Those who hate the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> would cringe toward him,</span><br /><span class="indent">and their fate would last forever.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But he would feed you<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, Israel; Hebrew him">e</a></sup></span> with the finest of the wheat,</span><br /><span class="indent">and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Probably a musical or liturgical term<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> Or <i>just decree</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> Or <i>against</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Hebrew <i>his</i>; also next line<br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> That is, Israel; Hebrew <i>him</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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