1.6 KiB
Psalm 81
- Sing praises to God, our strength.
Sing to the God of Jacob.
- Sing! Beat the tambourine.
Play the sweet lyre and the harp.
- Blow the ram's horn at new moon,
and again at full moon to call a festival!
- For this is required by the decrees of Israel;
it is a regulation of the God of Jacob.
- He made it a law for Israel
when he attacked Egypt to set us free.
I heard an unknown voice say,
- "Now I will take the load from your shoulders;
I will free your hands from their heavy tasks.
- You cried to me in trouble, and I saved you;
I answered out of the thundercloud
and tested your faith when there was no water at Meribah. Interlude
- "Listen to me, O my people, while I give you stern warnings.
O Israel, if you would only listen to me!
- You must never have a foreign god;
you must not bow down before a false god.
- For it was I, the LORD your God,
who rescued you from the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it with good things.
- "But no, my people wouldn't listen.
Israel did not want me around.
- So I let them follow their own stubborn desires,
living according to their own ideas.
- Oh, that my people would listen to me!
Oh, that Israel would follow me, walking in my paths!
- How quickly I would then subdue their enemies!
How soon my hands would be upon their foes!
- Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him;
they would be doomed forever.
- But I would feed you with the finest wheat.
I would satisfy you with wild honey from the rock."