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| The Book of Psalms. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
| Book III |
| LXXXI |
| God’s Goodness and Israel’s Waywardness |
| For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph. |
| [1] | SING aloud unto God our strength: Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. |
| [2] | Raise a song, and bring 1 hither the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery. |
| [3] | Blow the trumpet at the new moon, At the full moon, on our feastday. |
| [4] | For it is a statute for Israel, An ordinance of the God of Jacob. |
| [5] | He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, When he went out over 2 the land of Egypt, Where I heard a 3 language that I knew not. |
| [6] | I removed his shoulder from the burden: His hands were freed from the basket. |
| [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 |
| [8] | Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me! |
| [9] | There shall no strange god be in thee; Neither shalt thou worship any foreign god. |
| [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. |
| [11] | But my people hearkened not to my voice; And Israel would none of me. |
| [12] | So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels. |
| [13] | Oh that my people would hearken unto me, That Israel would walk in my ways! |
| [14] | I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries |
| [15] | The haters of Jehovah should submit 4 themselves unto him: But their time should endure for ever. |
| [16] | He would feed them also with the finest 5 of the wheat; And with honey out of the rock would I satisfy thee. |
| Note 1. Or, strike the timbrel. [back] |
| Note 2. Or, against. [back] |
| Note 3. Or, the speech of one that &c. [back] |
| Note 4. Or, yield feigned obedience.Heb. lie. [back] |
| Note 5. Heb. fat of wheat. [back] |
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