1 To the chief Musician upon Gittith, [A Psalm] of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength: make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.

2 \\81:1\\To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength: make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.

3 \\81:2\\Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

4 \\81:3\\Blow the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

5 \\81:4\\For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

6 \\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.

7 \\81:6\\I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.

8 \\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.

9 \\81:8\\Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee; O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me;

10 \\81:9\\There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

11 \\81:10\\I am the LORD thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

12 \\81:11\\But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would not obey me.

13 \\81:12\\So I gave them up to their own hearts lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

14 \\81:13\\O that my people had hearkened to me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

15 \\81:14\\I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

16 \\81:15\\The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves to him: and their time should have endured for ever.

17 \\81:16\\He would have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock I should have satisfied thee.