Psalms 81
81
For the Feast of Harvest
For the Pure and Shining One
Asaph’s poetic song set to the melody of “For the Feast of Harvest”
1Lord, just singing about you makes me strong!
So I’ll keep shouting for joy to Jacob’s God, my champion.
2Let the celebration begin!
I will sing with drum accompaniment and with the sweet sound
of the harp and guitar strumming.
3Go ahead! Blow the jubilee trumpet to begin the feast!
Blow it before every joyous celebration and festival. # 81:3 Or “on the day of the new moon and the day of the full moon.”
4For God has given us these seasons of joy,
days that the God of Jacob decreed for us to celebrate and rejoice.
5He has given these feasts to remind us of his triumph over Egypt,
when he went out to wage war against them.
I heard the message in an unknown tongue as he said to me,
6“I have removed your backbreaking burdens
and have freed your hands from the hard labor and toil. # 81:6 Or “from holding the baskets,” which alludes to the Hebrews carrying basket loads of burdens for their Egyptian masters.
7You called out to me in your time of trouble, and I rescued you.
I came down from the realm of the secret place of thunder,
where mysteries hide.
I came down to save you.
I tested your hearts at the place where there was no water to drink,
the place of your bitter argument with me.” # 81:7 The Hebrew includes the word Meribah, which means “the place of strife and contention.”
Pause in his presence
8“Listen to me, my dear people.
For I’m warning you, and you’d better listen well!
For I hold something against you.
9Don’t ever be guilty of worshiping any other god but me.
10I am your only God, the living God.
Wasn’t I the one who broke the strongholds over you
and raised you up out of bondage?
Open your mouth with a mighty decree;
I will fulfill it now, you’ll see!
The words that you speak, so shall it be!
11But my people still wouldn’t listen;
my princely people would not yield to me.
12So I lifted my grace from off of their lives, and I surrendered them
to the stubbornness of their hearts.
For they were living according to their own selfish fantasies.
13O that my people would once and for all listen to me
and walk faithfully in my footsteps, following my ways.
14Then and only then will I conquer your every foe
and tell every one of them, ‘You must go!’
15Those who hate my ways will cringe before me
and their punishment will be eternal.
16But I will feed you with my spiritual bread.
You will feast and be satisfied with me,
feeding on my revelation-truth like honey
dripping from the cliffs of the high place.”
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81
An Appeal from God to Israel
For the music director; on the Gittith. Of Asaph.#The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one
1Shout out to God our strength;
shout joyfully to the God of Jacob.
2Lift up a song and strike#Hebrew “give” the tambourine,
the pleasant lyre, together with the harp.
3Blow the horn at new moon,
at full moon, for our feast day,
4because it is a statute for Israel,
an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5He made it a statute#Hebrew “testimony” or “witness” in Joseph
when he went out against the land of Egypt,
where I heard a language I did not know.#The meaning of this line is uncertain. The above is based on perhaps a similar thought in Psa 114:1
6“I removed his shoulder from a burden.
His hands were freed from the basket.
7In this#Hebrew “the” trouble you called, and I rescued you.
Within the secret place of thunder I answered you;
I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
8Hear, O my people, and I will admonish you;
O Israel, if you would but listen to me.
9There shall be no strange god among you,
and you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
10I am Yahweh your God,
who brought you up from the land of Egypt.
Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.
11But my people did not listen to my voice,
and Israel did not yield to me.
12So I let them#Hebrew “him” go in the stubbornness of their heart;
they walked in their counsels.
13Oh that my people would listen to me;
that Israel would walk in my ways.
14I would subdue their enemies quickly,
and turn my hand against their adversaries.
15Those who hate Yahweh would cringe before him,
and their fate#Hebrew “time” would be forever.
16But he would feed him#That is, Israel from the choicest wheat,#Hebrew “the fat of wheat”
and I would satisfy you with honey from a rock.”
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