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Psalm 81 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Psa 81:1To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
Psa 81:2Raise a song, sound the timbrel, the sweet lyre with the harp.
Psa 81:3Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
Psa 81:4For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
Psa 81:5He made it a decree in Joseph, when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a voice I had not known:
Psa 81:6"I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.
Psa 81:7In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Mer'ibah. Selah
Psa 81:8Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
Psa 81:9There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
Psa 81:10I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Psa 81:11"But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would have none of me.
Psa 81:12So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
Psa 81:13O that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
Psa 81:14I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their foes.
Psa 81:15Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last for ever.
Psa 81:16I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."
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