Psalms 81

God’s goodness and Israel’s waywardness.

Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel,

Blow the trumpet at the new moon,

For it is a statute for Israel,

He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony,

I removed his shoulder from the burden:

Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee;

Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee:

There shall no strange god be in thee;

I am Jehovah thy God,

But my people hearkened not to my voice;

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart,

Oh that my people would hearken unto me,

I would soon subdue their enemies,

The haters of Jehovah should submit themselves unto him:

He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat;