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          DASV: Psalm 81    

For the music director, according to the Gittith, of Asaph

1 Sing with joy to God our strength;
     shout aloud to the God of Jacob.
2 Raise a song,
     and play the tambourine,
           the melodic lyre with the harp.
3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon,
     at the full moon, on the day of our feast.
4 For it is a statute for Israel,
     an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5 He appointed it to Joseph as a regulation
     when he went out through the land of Egypt,
           there I heard a voice that I did not recognize.

6 "I removed the burden from his shoulder;
     his hands were freed from the basket.
7 When you were in trouble you called, and I delivered you;
     I answered you from the dark thundercloud;
           I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
8 Hear, O my people, while I give you a warning;
     O Israel, if you would just listen to me!
9 No strange god should be among you;
     do not worship any foreign god.
10 I am the LORD your God,
     who brought you up out of the land of Egypt;
           open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 But my people did not listen to my voice,
     and Israel refused to submit to me.
12 So I gave them over to their own stubborn hearts,
     so that they would walk in their own plans.

13 O that my people would listen to me,
     that Israel would walk in my ways!
14 Then I would have quickly subdued their enemies,
     and turned my hand against their adversaries.
15 Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him;
     their doomed destiny would endure forever.
16 But I would feed you with the finest of the wheat;
     with honey out of the rock I would satisfy you.

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