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An Appeal from God to Israel

For the music director; on the Gittith. Of Asaph.[a]

81 
Shout out to God our strength;

shout joyfully to the God of Jacob.

2 Lift up a song and strike[b] the tambourine,

the pleasant lyre, together with the harp.

3 Blow the horn at new moon,

at full moon, for our feast day,

4 because it is a statute for Israel,

an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

5 He made it a statute[c] in Joseph

when he went out against the land of Egypt,

where I heard a language I did not know.[d]

6 “I removed his shoulder from a burden.

His hands were freed from the basket.

7 In this[e] 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

8 Hear, O my people, and I will admonish you;

O Israel, if you would but listen to me.

9 There shall be no strange god among you,

and you shall not bow down to a foreign god.

10 I am Yahweh your God,

who brought you up from the land of Egypt.

Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.

11 But my people did not listen to my voice,

and Israel did not yield to me.

12 So I let them[f] go in the stubbornness of their heart;

they walked in their counsels.

13 Oh that my people would listen to me;

that Israel would walk in my ways.

14 I would subdue their enemies quickly,

and turn my hand against their adversaries.

15 Those who hate Yahweh would cringe before him,

and their fate[g] would be forever.

16 But he would feed him[h] from the choicest wheat,[i]

and I would satisfy you with honey from a rock.”

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 81:1 The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one
  2. Psalm 81:2 Hebrew “give”
  3. Psalm 81:5 Hebrew “testimony” or “witness”
  4. Psalm 81:5 The meaning of this line is uncertain. The above is based on perhaps a similar thought in Psa 114:1
  5. Psalm 81:7 Hebrew “the”
  6. Psalm 81:12 Hebrew “him”
  7. Psalm 81:15 Hebrew “time”
  8. Psalm 81:16 That is, Israel
  9. Psalm 81:16 Hebrew “the fat of wheat”