81:1  Sing aloud unto God our strength: Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

81:2  Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery.

81:3  Blow the trumpet at the new moon, At the full moon, on our feast-day.

81:4  For it is a statute for Israel, An ordinance of the God of Jacob.

81:5  He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, When he went out over the land of Egypt, `Where' I heard a language that I knew not.

81:6  I removed his shoulder from the burden: His hands were freed from the basket.

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

81:8  Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!

81:9  There shall no strange god be in thee; Neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.

81:10  I am Jehovah thy God, Who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

81:11  But my people hearkened not to my voice; And Israel would none of me.

81:12  So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.

81:13  Oh that my people would hearken unto me, That Israel would walk in my ways!

81:14  I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries.

81:15  The haters of Jehovah should submit themselves unto him: But their time should endure for ever.

81:16  He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat; And with honey out of the rock would I satisfy thee. Psalm 82 A Psalm of Asaph.