Psa 81 | AB | STEP | Rejoice in God our helper; shout aloud to the God of Jacob.

‏ Psalms 81

For the end, A Psalm for Asaph, concerning the winepresses.

1 Rejoice in God our helper; shout aloud to the God of Jacob. 2 Take a psalm, and produce the timbrel, the pleasant psaltery with the harp. 3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, in the glorious day of your feast. 4 For this is an ordinance for Israel, and a statute of the God of Jacob. 5 He made it to be a testimony in Joseph, when he came forth out of the land of Egypt; he heard a language which he understood not. 6 He removed his back from burdens; his hands slaved in making the baskets. 7 You called upon Me in trouble, and I delivered you; I heard you in the secret place of the storm; I proved you at the Water of Strife. Pause. 8 Hear, My people, and I will speak to you, O Israel; and I will testify to you; if you will hearken to Me; 9 there shall be no new god in you; neither shall you worship a strange god. 10 For I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of the land of Egypt; open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. 11 But My people hearkened not to My voice; and Israel gave no heed to Me. 12 So I let them go after the ways of their own hearts; they will go on in their own ways. 13 If My people had hearkened to Me, if Israel had walked in My ways, 14 I would have put down their enemies very quickly, and would have laid My hand upon those that afflicted them. 15 The Lord's enemies would have lied to Him; but their time shall be forever. 16 And He fed them with the fat of wheat; and satisfied them with honey out of the rock.