Chapter 81
1 Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!
2 Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.
3 Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
4 For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5 He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know.
6 " I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.
7 You called in trouble, and I delivered you . I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah." Selah.
8 " Hear , my people, and I will testify to you , Israel, if you would listen to me !
9 There shall be no strange god in you , neither shall you worship any foreign god.
10 I am the LORD , your God , who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it .
11 But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me .
12 So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
13 Oh that my people would listen to me , that Israel would walk in my ways!
14 I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
15 The haters of the LORD would cringe before him , and their punishment would last forever.
16 But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock."