Chapter 81

 To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength: make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob. 

 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. 

 Blow the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. 

 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. 

 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not. 

 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots. 

 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, O my people, and I will testify to thee; O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me; 

 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. 

 I am the LORD thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. 

 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would not obey me. 

 So I gave them up to their own hearts lust: and they walked in their own counsels. 

 O that my people had hearkened to me, and Israel had walked in my ways! 

 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. 

 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves to him: and their time should have endured for ever. 

 He would have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock I should have satisfied thee.