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King James Bible

 

King James Bible

Youngs Literal Translation


81:1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. To the Overseer. -- `On the Gittith.' By Asaph. Cry aloud to God our strength, Shout to the God of Jacob.
81:2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with psaltery.
81:3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. Blow in the month a trumpet, In the new moon, at the day of our festival,
81:4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. For a statute to Israel it `is', An ordinance of the God of Jacob.
81:5 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. A testimony on Joseph He hath placed it, In his going forth over the land of Egypt. A lip, I have not known -- I hear.
81:6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots. From the burden his shoulder I turned aside, His hands from the basket pass over.
81:7 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. In distress thou hast called and I deliver thee, I answer thee in the secret place of thunder, I try thee by the waters of Meribah. Selah.
81:8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me:
81:9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god.
81:10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. I `am' Jehovah thy God, Who bringeth thee up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge thy mouth, and I fill it.
81:11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me.
81:12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels. And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.
81:13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.
81:14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand,
81:15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is -- to the age.
81:16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. He causeth him to eat of the fat of wheat, And `with' honey from a rock I satisfy thee!