Psalm 81

Exultate Deo

  1. SING we merrily unto God our strength; make a cheerful noise unto the God of Jacob.
  2. Take the psalm, bring hither the tabret, the merry harp with the lute.
  3. Blow up the trumpet in the new-moon, even in the time appointed, and upon our solemn feast-day.
  4. For this was made a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
  5. This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he came out of the land of Egypt, and had heard a strange language.
  6. I eased his shoulder from the burden, and his hands were delivered from making the pots.
  7. Thou calledst upon me in troubles, and I delivered thee, and heard thee what time as the storm fell upon thee.
  8. I proved thee also at the waters of strife.
  9. Hear, O my people, and I will assure thee, O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me.
  10. There shall no strange god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any other god.
  11. I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I shall fill it.
  12. But my people would not hear my voice; and Israel would not obey me;
  13. So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lusts, and let them follow their own imaginations.
  14. O that my people would have hearkened unto me! for if Israel had walked in my ways,
  15. I should soon have put down their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
  16. The haters of the LORD should have been found liars; but their time should have endured for ever.
  17. He should have fed them also with the finest wheat-flour; and with honey out of the stony rock should I have satisfied thee.
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