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# Psalms 81

[1](#verse-1) Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!

[2](#verse-2) Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.

[3](#verse-3) Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.

[4](#verse-4) For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

[5](#verse-5) He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know.

[6](#verse-6) “I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.

[7](#verse-7) You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.” Selah.

[8](#verse-8) “Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!

[9](#verse-9) There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.

[10](#verse-10) I am the LORD, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

[11](#verse-11) But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

[12](#verse-12) So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

[13](#verse-13) Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

[14](#verse-14) I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.

[15](#verse-15) The haters of the LORD would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.

[16](#verse-16) But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”

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