Psalm 81:1-Psalm 82:1 - A Call To Obedience

¹ To the Overseer. -- 'On the Gittith.' By Asaph. Cry aloud to God our strength, Shout to the God of Jacob. ² Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with psaltery. ³ Blow in the month a trumpet, In the new moon, at the day of our festival, ⁴ For a statute to Israel it is, An ordinance of the God of Jacob. ⁵ 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.

⁶ From the burden his shoulder I turned aside, His hands from the basket pass over. ⁷ 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. ⁸ Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me: ⁹ There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god. ¹⁰ I am Jehovah thy God, Who bringeth thee up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge thy mouth, and I fill it.

¹¹ But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me. ¹² And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels. ¹³ O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk. ¹⁴ As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand, ¹⁵ Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is -- to the age. ¹⁶ He causeth him to eat of the fat of wheat, And with honey from a rock I satisfy thee!

¹ -- A Psalm of Asaph. God hath stood in the company of God, In the midst God doth judge.