Psalms 81
81
PSALM 81
Common Meter: 8,6,8,6
To the chief Musician upon Gittith,
A Psalm of Asaph.
1Sing loud to God our strength; with joy
to Jacob's God do sing.
2Take up a psalm, the pleasant harp,
timbrel and psalt'ry bring.
3Blow trumpets at new-moon, what day
our feast appointed is:
4For charge to Isr'el,
and a law of Jacob's God was this.
5To Joseph this a testimony
he made, when Egypt land
He travell'd through, where speech I heard
I did not understand.
6His shoulder I from burdens took,
his hands from pots did free.
7Thou didst in trouble on me call,
and I deliver'd thee:
In secret place of thundering
I did thee answer make;
And at the streams of Meribah
of thee a proof did take.
8O thou, my people, give an ear,
I'll testify to thee;
To thee, O Isr'el, if thou wilt
but hearken unto me.
9In midst of thee there shall not be
any strange god at all;
Nor unto any god unknown
thou bowing down shalt fall.
10I am the Lord thy God, which did
from Egypt land thee guide;
I'll fill thy mouth abundantly,
do thou it open wide.
11But yet my people to my voice
would not attentive be;
And ev'n my chosen Israel
he would have none of me.
12So to the lust of their own hearts
I them delivered;
And then in counsels of their own
they vainly wandered.
13O that my people had me heard,
Isr'el my ways had chose!
14I had their en'mies soon subdu'd,
my hand turn'd on their foes.
15The haters of the Lord to him
submission should have feign'd;
But as for them, their time should have
for evermore remain'd.
16He should have also fed them with
the finest of the wheat;
Of honey from the rock thy fill
I should have made thee eat.
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Psalms 81
81
PSALM 81
God’s Goodness and Israel’s Waywardness.
To the Chief Musician; set to the #A technical musical term, meaning uncertain.Philistine lute. A Psalm of Asaph.
1Sing aloud to God our strength;
Shout for joy to the God of Jacob (Israel).
2Raise a song, sound the timbrel,
The sweet sounding lyre with the harp.
3Blow the trumpet at the New Moon,
At the #Or New Moon, lit covering, i.e. when the moon is “covered” or hidden. This was taken by the ancient rabbis to refer to the festival of the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashana).full moon, on our feast day.
4For this is a statute for Israel,
An ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5He established it for a testimony in #Curiously, in this one verse Joseph’s name has an extra letter, an “h.” In an example of rabbinic lore, the ancient rabbis said that because Joseph sanctified the divine name in private (by resisting Potiphar’s wife) he merited having one letter of the divine name (Yahweh) added to his. Another rabbinic explanation is that when Pharaoh was about to elevate Joseph to power, the astrologers demanded that Joseph speak the 70 languages of the world. The angel Gabriel came to teach him, but Joseph was unable until Gabriel added to his name the extra letter from the divine name.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.
7You 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.
8Hear, O My people, and I will admonish you—
O Israel, if you would listen to Me!
9Let there be no strange god among you,
Nor shall you worship any foreign god.
10I 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.
12So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their heart,
To walk in [the path of] their own counsel.
13Oh, that My people would listen to Me,
That Israel would walk in My ways!
14Then I would quickly subdue and humble their enemies
And turn My hand against their adversaries;
15Those who hate the Lord would pretend obedience to Him and cringe before Him,
And their time of punishment would be forever.
16But I would feed Israel with the finest of the wheat;
And with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
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