Psalm 81
English translation got from website: https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo
- For the conductor, on the gittith, of Asaph.
- Sing praises to the God Who is our might, sound the shofar to the God of Jacob.
- Raise [your voice in] song and give forth [with] a timbrel, a pleasant harp with a lyre.
- Sound the shofar on the New Moon, on the appointed time for the day of our festival.
- For it is a statute for Israel, the judgment of the God of Jacob.
- As a testimony for Jehoseph, He ordained it, when he went forth over the land of Egypt, [when] I understood a language that I had not known.
- I removed his shoulder from burdens; his hands were removed from the cauldron.
- In distress, you called and I released you; I answered you-[though you called] in secret- with thunder; I tried you by the waters of Meribah, forever.
- Hearken, My people, and I shall admonish you, Israel, if you hearken to Me.
- No strange god shall be within you, neither shall you prostrate yourself to a foreign god.
- I am the Lord, your God, Who brought you up from the land of Egypt; open your mouth wide, and I shall fill it.
- But My people did not hearken to My voice, neither did Israel desire to [follow] Me.
- So I let them go after their heart’s fantasies; let them go in their counsels.
- If only My people would hearken to Me, if Israel would go in My ways.
- In a short time I would subdue their enemies and upon their enemies I would return My hand.
- The enemies of the Lord would lie to Him, and their time would be forever.
- Then He would feed them with the fat of wheat and I would sate you with honey from a rock.