Глава 81

1. ¶ SING aloud to God our strength; make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.
2. Take a psalm and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3. Blow trumpets in the new moon in the time appointed, on our solemn feast days.
4. For this was a statute for Israel and a law of the God of Jacob.
5. This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony when he went out to the land of Egypt, where he heard a language that he understood not.
6. I removed the yoke from his shoulder, I released his hands from the bonds.
7. He called on me in trouble, and I delivered him; I sheltered him under my glorious cover; I tested him at the waters of dispute.
8. ¶ Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify about you. If you will listen to me;
9. There shall be no strange god in you; neither shall you worship any strange god.
10. I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt; open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11. But my people would not listen to my voice; and Israel would have none of me.
12. So they walked according to the desires of their own hearts and according to their own counsels.
13. Oh that my people had listened to me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
14. I would soon have destroyed their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
15. The haters of the LORD have lied to him; but they shall tremble for ever.
16. He has fed them also with the finest of the wheat; and with honey out of the rock has he satisfied them.