To the director upon the Gitʹtith.+ Of Aʹsaph.
81 O cry out joyfully, YOU people, to God our strength;+
Shout in triumph to the God of Jacob.+
2 Strike up a melody+ and take a tambourine,+
The pleasant harp together with the stringed instrument.+
3 On the new moon, BLOW the horn;+
On the full moon, for the day of our festival.+
4 For it is a regulation for Israel,+
A judicial decision of the God of Jacob.
5 As a reminder he laid it upon Joseph himself,+
When he was going forth over the land of Egypt.+
A language that I did not know I kept hearing.+
6 “I turned aside his shoulder even from [the] burden;+
His own hands got to be free even from the basket.+
7 In distress you called, and I proceeded to rescue you;+
I began to answer you in the concealed place of thunder.+
I went examining you at the waters of Merʹi·bah.+ Seʹlah.
8 Hear, O my people, and I will bear witness against you,+
O Israel, if you will listen to me.+
9 Among you there will prove to be no strange god;+
And you will not bow down to a foreign god.+
10 I, Jehovah, am your God,+
The One bringing you up out of the land of Egypt.+
Open your mouth wide, and I shall fill it.+
11 But my people has not listened to my voice;+
And Israel itself has not showed any willingness toward me.+
12 And so I let them go in the stubbornness of their heart;+
They went walking in their own counsels.+
13 O that my people were listening to me,+
O that Israel itself would walk in my very ways!+
14 Their enemies I would easily subdue,+
And against their adversaries I would turn my hand.+
15 As for those intensely hating Jehovah, they will come cringing to him,+
And their time will prove to be to time indefinite.
16 And he will keep feeding him off the fat of the wheat,+
And out of the rock I shall satisfy you with honey+ itself.”