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Psalm 81

A Call to Obedience

For the choir director: on the Gittith. Of Asaph.

1 Sing for joy to God our strength;

shout in triumph to the God of Jacob.

2 Lift up a song—play the tambourine,

the melodious lyre, and the harp.

3 Blow the horn on the day of our feasts[a][b]

during the new moon

and during the full moon.

4 For this is a statute for Israel,

a judgment of the God of Jacob.

5 He set it up as an ordinance for Joseph

when He went throughout[c] the land of Egypt.

I heard an unfamiliar language:

6 “I relieved his shoulder from the burden;

his hands were freed from carrying the basket.

7 You called out in distress, and I rescued you;

I answered you from the thundercloud.

I tested you at the waters of Meribah.Selah

8 Listen, My people, and I will admonish you.

Israel, if you would only listen to Me!

9 There must not be a strange god among you;

you must not bow down to a foreign god.

10 I am Yahweh your God,

who brought you up from the land of Egypt.

Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

11 “But My people did not listen to Me;

Israel did not obey Me.

12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts

to follow their own plans.

13 If only My people would listen to Me

and Israel would follow My ways,

14 I would quickly subdue their enemies

and turn My hand against their foes.”

15 Those who hate the Lord

would pretend submission to Him;

their doom would last forever.

16 But He would feed Israel[d] with the best wheat.

“I would satisfy you with honey from the rock.”

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 81:3 Lit feast
  2. Psalm 81:3 Either Passover or Tabernacles
  3. Psalm 81:5 LXX, Syr, Jer read out of
  4. Psalm 81:16 Lit him