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To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob (81:1)

Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery (81:2)

Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day (81:3)

For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob (81:4)

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 (81:5)

I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots (81:6)

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 (81:7)

Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me (81:8)

There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god (81:9)

I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it (81:10)

But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me (81:11)

So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels (81:12)

Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways (81:13)

I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries (81:14)

The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever (81:15)

He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee (81:16)

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