Chapter 81
- Oh, That My People Would Listen to Me To the choirmaster : according to The Gittith. Of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the Elohim of Jacob!
- Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp.
- Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
- For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the Elohim of Jacob.
- He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known :
- I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.
- In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah.
- Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
- There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
- I am the Adonai your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
- But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me.
- So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
- Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
- I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes.
- Those who hate the Lord would cringe toward him, and their fate would last forever.
- But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.