Ps 81
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For the end, a Psalm for Alex. David Asaph, concerning the wine-presses. - Rejoice you in God our helper; shout aloud
to the God of Jacob.
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Take a psalm, and produce the timbrel, the pleasant psaltery with the harp.
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Blow the trumpet at the new moon, in the glorious day of Alex. our your feast.
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For this is an ordinance for Israel, and a statute of the God of Jacob.
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He made Gr. him, sc. Israel it to be a testimony in Joseph, when he came forth out of the land of Egypt: he heard
a language which he understood not.
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He removed his back from burdens: his hands slaved in making the baskets.
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You did call upon me in trouble, and I delivered you; I heard you in the secret place
of the storm: I proved you at the water of Lit. contradiction Strife. Pause.
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Hear, my people, and I will speak to you, O Israel; and I will testify to you: if
you will hearken to me;
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there shall be no new god in you; neither shall you worship a strange god.
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For I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of the land of Egypt: open your mouth
wide, and I will fill it.
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But my people hearkened not to my voice; and Israel gave no heed to me.
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So I let them go after the ways of their own hearts: they will go on in their own
ways.
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If my people had hearkened to me, if Israel had walked in my ways,
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I should have put down their enemies very quickly, and should have laid my hand upon
those that afflicted them.
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The Lord’s enemies should have lied to him: but sc. of the others their time shall be for ever.
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And he fed them with the fat of wheat; and satisfied them with honey out of the rock.