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Chapter 81 |
| 1 | Sing aloud
unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. |
| 2 |
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the
psaltery. |
| 3
| Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time
appointed, on our solemn feast day. |
| 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 through the land of Egypt: where I heard a
language that I understood not. |
| 6 | I removed his shoulder from the
burden: his hands were delivered from the pots. |
| 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. |
| 8 | Hear, O my
people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto
me; |
| 9 |
There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship
any strange god. |
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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. |
| 11 | But my
people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. |
| 12 |
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own
counsels. |
| 13
| Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had
walked in my ways! |
| 14 | I should soon have subdued their enemies,
and turned my hand against their adversaries. |
| 15 | The haters
of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should
have endured for ever. |
| 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. |
