SOTD Psalm 81

Psalm 81

Oh, That My People Would Listen to Me

To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. Of Asaph.

¹ Sing aloud to God our strength;
shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
²Raise a song; sound the tambourine,
the sweet lyre with the harp.
³Blow the trumpet at the new moon,
at the full moon, on our feast day.

⁴For it is a statute for Israel,
a rule of the God of Jacob.
⁵He made it a decree in Joseph
when he went out over the land of Egypt.
I hear a language I had not known: ⁶“I relieved your shoulder of the burden;
your hands were freed from the basket.
⁷In distress you called, and I delivered you;
I answered you in the secret place of thunder;
I tested you at the waters of Meribah.
Selah

⁸ Hear, O my people, while I admonish you!
O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
⁹There shall be no strange god among you;
you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
¹⁰ I am the LORD your God,
who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

¹¹“But my people did not listen to my voice;
Israel would not submit to me.
¹²So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,
to follow their own counsels.
¹³ Oh, that my people would listen to me,
that Israel would walk in my ways!
¹⁴I would soon subdue their enemies
and turn my hand against their foes.
¹⁵Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him,
and their fate would last forever.
¹⁶But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat,
and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”