Psm81:1 To the Overseer. -- `On the Gittith.' By Asaph. Cry aloud to God our strength, Shout to the God of Jacob.
Psm81:2 Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with psaltery.
Psm81:3 Blow in the month a trumpet, In the new moon, at the day of our festival,
Psm81:4 For a statute to Israel it [is], An ordinance of the God of Jacob.
Psm81:5 A testimony on Joseph He hath placed it, In his going forth over the land of Egypt. A lip, I have not known -- I hear.
Psm81:6 From the burden his shoulder I turned aside, His hands from the basket pass over.
Psm81:7 In distress thou hast called and I deliver thee, I answer thee in the secret place of thunder, I try thee by the waters of Meribah. Selah.
Psm81:8 Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me:
Psm81:9 There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god.
Psm81:10 I [am] Jehovah thy God, Who bringeth thee up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge thy mouth, and I fill it.
Psm81:11 But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me.
Psm81:12 And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.
Psm81:13 O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.
Psm81:14 As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand,
Psm81:15 Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is -- to the age.
Psm81:16 He causeth him to eat of the fat of wheat, And [with] honey from a rock I satisfy thee!
Psm81:17 -- A Psalm of Asaph. God hath stood in the company of God, In the midst God doth judge.