Psalm 81

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   An exhortation to praise God--God exhorteth to obedience.
   To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph.
   ¹ Sing aloud unto God our strength; make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
   ² Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
   ³ Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
   ⁴ For this was a statute for Israel, and a law 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 I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were delivered from the pots.
   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 Merribah. Selah.
   ⁸ Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
   ⁹ There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange 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 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
   ¹² So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust; and they walked in their own counsels.
   ¹³ Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
   ¹⁴ I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
   ¹⁵ The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto him; but their time should have endured 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.