| 81:1
| Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of
Jacob.
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| 81:2
| Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the
psaltery.
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| 81:3
| Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our
solemn feast day.
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| 81:4
| For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
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| 81:5
| 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.
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| 81:6
| I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from
the pots.
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| 81:7
| Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the
secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
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| 81:8
| Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt
hearken unto me;
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| 81:9
| There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any
strange god.
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| 81:10
| I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open
thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
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| 81:11
| But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of
me.
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| 81:12
| So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their
own counsels.
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| 81:13
| Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my
ways!
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| 81:14
| I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against
their adversaries.
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| 81:15
| The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but
their time should have endured for ever.
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| 81:16
| He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with
honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
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