081:001
Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

081:002
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

081:003
Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

081:004
For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

081:005
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.

081:006
I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.

081:007
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.

081:008
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;

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081:009
There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

081:010
I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

081:011
But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

081:012
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

081:013
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

081:014
I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

081:015
The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.

081:016
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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