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By Asaph.</p><p class="heading">Celebrating and Remembering God</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Sing joyfully to God, our strength.</p> <p class="poetry2">Raise a shout to the God of Jacob.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Sing a song and play the tambourine,</p> <p class="poetry2">the pleasant-sounding lyre along with the harp.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Blow the ram’s horn when there is a New Moon,</p> <p class="poetry2">when there is a full moon,</p> <p class="poetry2">on our festival day,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>because it is a statute in Israel,</p> <p class="poetry2">an ordinance by the God of Jacob,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>a decree that he prescribed for Joseph</p> <p class="poetry2">when he went throughout the land of Egypt,</p> <p class="poetry2">speaking a language I did not recognize.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="81:5 Lit. hear">a</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I removed the burden from your<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="81:6 Lit. his">b</a></span> shoulder;</p> <p class="poetry2">your<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="81:6 Lit. his">c</a></span> hands were freed of the burdensome basket.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="81:6 Lit. hands let pass through the basket">d</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>In a time of need you called out and I delivered you;</p> <p class="poetry2">I answered you from the dark thundercloud;</p> <p class="poetry2">I tested you at the waters of Meribah.</p> <p class="selah">Interlude</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Listen, My people and I will warn you.</p> <p class="poetry2">Israel, if only you would obey me!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You must neither have a foreign god over you</p> <p class="poetry2">or worship a strange god.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I am the LORD your God,</p> <p class="poetry2">who brought you out of the land of Egypt,</p> <p class="poetry2">open your mouth that I may fill it.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Yet my people didn’t obey my voice;</p> <p class="poetry2">Israel didn’t submit to me.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So I allowed them<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="81:12 Or it/ her ">e</a></span> to continue in their stubbornness,</p> <p class="poetry2">living by their own advice.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>If only my people would obey me,</p> <p class="poetry2">if only Israel would walk in my ways!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then I would quickly subdue their enemies.</p> <p class="poetry2">I would turn against their foes.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Those who hate the LORD will cringe before him;</p> <p class="poetry2">their punishment will be permanent.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/81-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But I will feed Israel<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="81:16 Lit. him">f</a></span> with the finest wheat,</p> <p class="poetry2">satisfying you with honey from the rock.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 81:5 Lit. <i>hear</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 81:6 Lit. <i>his</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 81:6 Lit. <i>his</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 81:6 Lit. <i>hands let pass through the basket</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 81:12 Or <i>it</i>/ <i>her </i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 81:16 Lit. <i>him</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 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