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57 lines
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Oh, That My People Would Listen to Me
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# Chapter 81
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1. Sing aloud to God our strength;
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shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
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2. Raise a song; sound the tambourine,
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the sweet lyre with the harp.
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3. Blow the trumpet at the new moon,
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at the full moon, on our feast day.
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4. For it is a statute for Israel,
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a rule of the God of Jacob.
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5. He made it a decree in Joseph
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when he went out over the land of Egypt.
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I hear a language I had not known:
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6. "I relieved your shoulder of the burden;
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your hands were freed from the basket.
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7. In distress you called, and I delivered you;
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I answered you in the secret place of thunder;
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I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
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8. Hear, O my people, while I admonish you!
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O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
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9. There shall be no strange god among you;
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you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
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10. I am the LORD your God,
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who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
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Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
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11. "But my people did not listen to my voice;
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Israel would not submit to me.
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12. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,
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to follow their own counsels.
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13. Oh, that my people would listen to me,
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that Israel would walk in my ways!
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14. I would soon subdue their enemies
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and turn my hand against their foes.
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15. Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him,
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and their fate would last forever.
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16. But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat,
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and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."
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