1901 American Standard Version (ASV)

Psalms 81

1 An exhortation to a solemn praising of God. 4 God challengeth that duty by reason of his benefits. 8 God, exhorting to obedience, complaineth of their disobedience, which proveth their own hurt.

 81:1 ¶ [[For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. [A Psalm] of Asaph.]] Sing aloud unto God our strength: Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

 81:2 Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery.

 81:3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, At the full moon, on our feast-day.

 81:4 For it is a statute for Israel, An ordinance of the God of Jacob.

 81:5 He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, When he went out over the land of Egypt, [Where] I heard a language that I knew not.

 81:6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: His hands were freed from the basket.

 81:7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

 81:8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!

 81:9 There shall no strange god be in thee; Neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.

 81:10 I am Jehovah thy God, Who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

 81:11 But my people hearkened not to my voice; And Israel would none of me.

 81:12 So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.

 81:13 Oh that my people would hearken unto me, That Israel would walk in my ways!

 81:14 I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries.

 81:15 The haters of Jehovah should submit themselves unto him: But their time should endure for ever.

 81:16 He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat; And with honey out of the rock would I satisfy thee.