Psalms 81 AMP

1. Sing aloud to God our strength; Shout for joy to the God of Jacob (Israel).

2. Raise a song, sound the timbrel, The sweet sounding lyre with the harp.

3. Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, At the full moon, on our feast day.

4. For this is a statute for Israel, An ordinance of the God of Jacob.

5. He established it for a testimony in Joseph When He went throughout the land of Egypt. I heard the language [of One whom] I did not know, saying,

6. “I removed the burden from his shoulder; His hands were freed from the basket.

7. You called in [the time of] trouble and I rescued you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

8. Hear, O My people, and I will admonish you— O Israel, if you would listen to Me!

9. Let there be no strange god among you, Nor shall you worship any foreign god.

10. I am the Lord your God, Who brought you up from the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.

11. “But My people would not listen to My voice, And Israel did not [consent to] obey Me.

12. So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their heart, To walk in [the path of] their own counsel.

13. Oh, that My people would listen to Me, That Israel would walk in My ways!

14. Then I would quickly subdue and humble their enemies And turn My hand against their adversaries;

15. Those who hate the Lord would pretend obedience to Him and cringe before Him, And their time of punishment would be forever.

16. But I would feed Israel with the finest of the wheat; And with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”