Psalms.
Chapter 81.
To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph. Sing ye joyously unto God our strength, shout aloud unto the God of Jacob; 
Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with the lute. 
Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the set time, on our feast day: 
For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob; 
He ordained it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went forth over the land of Egypt, where I heard a language that I knew not. 
I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from the basket. 
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. 
Hear, my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me! 
There shall no strange god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any foreign god. 
I am Jehovah thy God, that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. 
But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me. 
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels. 
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had walked in my ways! 
I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. 
The haters of Jehovah would have come cringing unto him; but their time would have been for ever. 
And he would have fed them with the finest of wheat; yea, with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied thee. 
