^81:1 Sing aloud to God our strength. Shout to the God of Jacob. ^81:2 Raise a song and bring here the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

    ^81:3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast-day. ^81:4 Because it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

    ^81:5 He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony when he went out over the land of Egypt, where I heard a language that I did not know. ^81:6 I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.

    ^81:7 You called in trouble and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I proved you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

    ^81:8 Hear, O my people and I will testify to you, O Israel, if you would listen to me! ^81:9 There will be no strange god in you, nor will you worship any foreign god.

    ^81:10 I am Jehovah your God who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.

    ^81:11 But my people listened not to my voice and Israel would have none of me. ^81:12 So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, that they might walk in their own counsels.

    ^81:13 O that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! ^81:14 I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their adversaries. ^81:15 (The haters of Jehovah pretend obedience to him, but their time is everlasting.)

    ^81:16 He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat. And I would satisfy you with honey out of the rock.