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Of Asaph.</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Sing aloud to God our strength;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">shout for joy to the God of Jacob.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>Raise a song, sound the tambourine,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the sweet lyre with the harp.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Blow the trumpet at the new moon,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">at the full moon, on our festal day.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>For it is a statute for Israel,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">an ordinance of the God of Jacob.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>He made it a decree in Joseph,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">when he went out over<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-17293a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> the land of Egypt.</span></span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text">I hear a voice I had not known:</span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>“I relieved your<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-17294b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> shoulder of the burden;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">your<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-17294c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> hands were freed from the basket.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>In distress you called, and I rescued you;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I answered you in the secret place of thunder;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I tested you at the waters of Meribah.<i><span class="selah">Selah</span></i></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Hear, O my people, while I admonish you;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">O Israel, if you would but listen to me!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>There shall be no strange god among you;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you shall not bow down to a foreign god.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>I am the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>“But my people did not listen to my voice;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Israel would not submit to me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">to follow their own counsels.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>O that my people would listen to me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">that Israel would walk in my ways!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Then I would quickly subdue their enemies,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and turn my hand against their foes.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Those who hate the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> would cringe before him,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and their doom would last forever.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>I would feed you<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-17304d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> with the finest of the wheat,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 81:5">Psalm 81:5</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>against</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 81:6">Psalm 81:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>his</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 81:6">Psalm 81:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>his</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 81:16">Psalm 81:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn Compare verse 16b: Heb <i>he would feed him</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div 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