# Psalm 81 To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. Of Asaph. 
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1. Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob! 
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2. Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp. 
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3. Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day. 
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4. For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob. 
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5. He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known: 
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6. “I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket. 
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7. In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah 
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8. Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me! 
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9. There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god. 
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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. 
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11. “But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me. 
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12. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels. 
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13. Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! 
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14. I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes. 
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15. Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last forever. 
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16. But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.” 

(ESV)