Psalms 81

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 For the leader; "upon the gittith." Of Asaph.	1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2 Sing joyfully to God our strength; shout in triumph to the God of Jacob!	2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3 Take up a melody, sound the timbrel, the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.	3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our solemn feast.	4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
5 For this is a law in Israel, an edict of the God of Jacob,	5 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.
6 Who made it a decree for Joseph when he came out of the land of Egypt. II I hear a new oracle:	6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
7 "I relieved their shoulders of the burden; their hands put down the basket.	7 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.
8 In distress you called and I rescued you; unseen, I spoke to you in thunder; At the waters of Meribah I tested you and said: Selah	8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
9 'Listen, my people, I give you warning! If only you will obey me, Israel!	9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
10 There must be no foreign god among you; you must not worship an alien god.	10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt. Open wide your mouth that I may fill it.'	11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
12 But my people did not listen to my words; Israel did not obey me.	12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
13 So I gave them over to hardness of heart; they followed their own designs.	13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
14 But even now if my people would listen, if Israel would walk in my paths,	14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
15 In a moment I would subdue their foes, against their enemies unleash my hand.	15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
16 Those who hate the LORD would tremble, their doom sealed forever.	16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
17 But Israel I would feed with the finest wheat, satisfy them with honey from the rock."