Psalms
(Of the Director; to the Gittith. Of Asaph’s.)
81 Shout for God our strength,
cheer for Jacob’s God!
2 Strike up music and sound tambourine,
dulcet lyre with harp,
3 Blow the ram-horn at the new moon,
at the full, on the day of our feast.
4 For that is an institution of Israel’s,
a due of Jacob’s God.
6 “I let his shoulder turn away from the load;
his hands shall pass the basket by;
7 You called in distress, and I have rescued you.
I will answer you through a screen of thunder;
I will test you at a water of dispute. [Selah]
8 Listen, my people, and let me testify to you;
Israel, if you will listen to me,
9 Have no strange deity among you
and not do reverence to any foreign deity,
10 I Jehovah am your God,
who am bringing you up out of Egypt;
open your mouth wide and I will fill it.
11 But does my people not listen to my voice,
will Israel not have me,
12 I will turn them loose to their willful wicked way;
they shall go by their own contrivances.
13 If my people did listen to me,
Israel did go my ways,
14 Readily would I humble their enemies
and bring my hand back against their foes.
15 Those who hate Israel should cringe to him
and their disaster be forever.
16 I would feed him out of the richest of wheat
and give you out of rocks your fill of honey.”