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Psalm 81 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:1 - <To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith. Of Asaph.> Make a song to God our strength: make a glad cry to the God of Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:2 - Take up the melody, playing on an instrument of music, even on corded instruments.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:3 - Let the horn be sounded in the time of the new moon, at the full moon, on our holy feast-day:
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:4 - For this is a rule for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:5 - He gave it to Joseph as a witness, when he went out over the land of Egypt; then the words of a strange tongue were sounding in my ears.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:6 - I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:7 - You gave a cry in your trouble, and I made you free; I gave you an answer in the secret place of the thunder; I put you to the test at the waters of Meribah. (Selah.)
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:8 - Give ear, O my people, and I will give you my word, O Israel, if you will only do as I say!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:9 - There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:10 - I am the Lord your God, who took you up from the land of Egypt: let your mouth be open wide, so that I may give you food.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:11 - But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:12 - So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:13 - If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:14 - I would quickly overcome their haters: my hand would be turned against those who make war on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:15 - The haters of the Lord would be broken, and their destruction would be eternal.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:16 - I would give them the best grain for food; you would be full of honey from the rock.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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