Psalms 81

KING JAMES BIBLE	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.	1 To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.	2 Raise a song, sound the timbrel, the sweet lyre with the harp.
3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.	3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.	4 For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance 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.	5 He made it a decree in Joseph, when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a voice I had not known:
6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.	6 "I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from 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.	7 In distress you called, and I delivered 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 testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;	8 Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.	9 There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign 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.	10 I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.	11 "But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would have none of me.
12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.	12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!	13 O that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.	14 I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their foes.
15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.	15 Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last for ever.
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.	16 I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."