Psalm 81 KJV

1. 81:1  Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2. 81:2  Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3. 81:3  Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4. 81:4  For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
5. 81:5  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.
6. 81:6  I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
7. 81:7  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.
8. 81:8  Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
9. 81:9  There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
10. 81:10  I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11. 81:11  But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
12. 81:12  So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
13. 81:13  Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
14. 81:14  I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
15. 81:15  The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
16. 81:16  He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.