Psalms 81

1 To the Chief Musician. On "the Gittith." Asaph’s. Shout ye for joy, unto God our strength, Sound the note of triumph, to the God of Jacob;

To him that excelleth upon Gittith. A Psalme committed to Asaph. Sing ioyfully vnto God our strength: sing loude vnto the God of Iaakob.

2 Raise a melody, and strike the timbrel, The lyre so sweet, with the harp:

Take the song and bring forth the timbrel, the pleasant harpe with the viole.

3 Blow, at the new moon, the horn, At the full moon, for the day of our sacred festival:

Blowe the trumpet in the newe moone, euen in the time appointed, at our feast day.

4 For, a statute to Israel, it is, A regulation, by the God of Jacob;

For this is a statute for Israel, and a Law of the God of Iaakob.

5 A testimony in Joseph, he appointed it, When he went forth over the land of Egypt: A language I liked not, used I to hear;

Hee set this in Ioseph for a testimonie, when hee came out of the land of Egypt, where I heard a language, that I vnderstoode not.

6 I took away, from the burden, his shoulder, his hands, from the clay, were set free.

I haue withdrawen his shoulder from the burden, and his handes haue left the pots.

7 In distress, thou didst cry, and I delivered thee, —I answered thee, within a hiding-place of thunder, I proved thee by the waters of Meribah. (Selah)

Thou calledst in affliction and I deliuered thee, and answered thee in the secret of the thunder: I prooued thee at the waters of Meribah. (Selah)

8 Hear, O my people, and I will adjure thee, O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me!

Heare, O my people, and I wil protest vnto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken vnto me,

9 There shall not be, within thee, a foreign GOD, —Neither shalt thou bow down to a strange GOD:

Let there bee no strange god in thee, neither worship thou any strange god.

10 I, Yahweh, am thy God, Who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, —Open wide thy mouth, that I may fill it.

For 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, hearkened not, unto my voice, Even, Israel, inclined not unto me.

But my people would not heare my voyce, and Israel would none of me.

12 So then I let them go on in the stubbornness of their own heart, They might walk in their own counsels!

So I gaue them vp vnto the hardnesse of their heart, and they haue walked in their owne cousels.

13 If, my people, were hearkening unto me, [If, ] Israel, in my ways, would walk,

Oh that my people had hearkened vnto me, and Israel had walked in my wayes.

14 Right soon, their foes, would I subdue, And, against their adversaries, would I turn my hand:

I would soone haue humbled their enemies, and turned mine hand against their aduersaries.

15 The haters of Yahweh, should come cringing unto him, Then let their own good time be age-abiding!

The haters of the Lord should haue bene subiect vnto him, and their time should haue endured for euer.

16 Then would he feed them from the marrow of the wheat, Yea, out of the rock—with honey, would I satisfy thee.

And God would haue fedde them with the fatte of wheat, and with honie out of the rocke would I haue sufficed thee.