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set to the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>Philistine lute. <i>A Psalm</i> of Asaph.</p><p class="psstart"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/81-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Sing aloud to God our strength; <t><p class="indent1">Shout for joy to the God of Jacob (Israel). <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/81-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Raise a song, sound the timbrel, <t><p class="indent1">The sweet sounding lyre with the harp. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/81-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, <t><p class="indent1">At the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>full moon, on our feast day. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/81-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For this is a statute for Israel, <t><p class="indent1">An ordinance of the God of Jacob. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/81-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>He established it for a testimony in <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>Joseph <t><p class="indent1">When He went throughout the land of Egypt. <t><p class="indent1">I heard the language [of One whom] I did not know, <i>saying,</i> <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/81-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“I removed the burden from his shoulder; <t><p class="indent1">His hands were freed from the basket. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/81-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“You called in [the time of] trouble and I rescued you; <t><p class="indent1">I answered you in the secret place of thunder; <t><p class="indent1">I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/81-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Hear, O My people, and I will admonish you-- <t><p class="indent1">O Israel, if you would listen to Me! <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/81-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Let there be no strange god among you, <t><p class="indent1">Nor shall you worship any foreign god. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/81-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“I am the LORD your God, <t><p class="indent1">Who brought you up from the land of Egypt. <t><p class="indent1">Open your mouth wide and I will fill it. <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/81-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“But My people would not listen to My voice, <t><p class="indent1">And Israel did not [consent to] obey Me. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/81-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their heart, <t><p class="indent1">To walk in [the path of] their own counsel. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/81-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“Oh, that My people would listen to Me, <t><p class="indent1">That Israel would walk in My ways! <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/81-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“Then I would quickly subdue <i>and</i> humble their enemies <t><p class="indent1">And turn My hand against their adversaries; <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/81-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Those who hate the LORD would pretend obedience to Him <i>and</i> cringe before Him, <t><p class="indent1">And their time <i>of punishment</i> would be forever. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/81-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“But I would feed Israel with the finest of the wheat; <t><p class="indent1">And with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse"><FNC>PSALM 81<FNV>Title</span> A technical musical term, meaning uncertain.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> Or <i>New Moon,</i> lit <i>covering,</i> i.e. when the moon is “covered” or hidden. This was taken by the ancient rabbis to refer to the festival of the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashana).<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> Curiously, in this one verse Joseph’s name has an extra letter, an “h.” In an example of rabbinic lore, the ancient rabbis said that because Joseph sanctified the divine name in private (by resisting Potiphar’s wife) he merited having one letter of the divine name (<i>Yahweh)</i> added to his. Another rabbinic explanation is that when Pharaoh was about to elevate Joseph to power, the astrologers demanded that Joseph speak the 70 languages of the world. 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