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Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
81:2
 
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
81:3
 
Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
81:4
 
For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
81:5
 
This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
81:6
 
I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
81:7
 
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.
81:8
 
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
81:9
 
There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
81:10
 
I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
81:11
 
But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
81:12
 
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
81:13
 
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
81:14
 
I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
81:15
 
The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
81:16
 
He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.

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John Wesley's Notes
Explanation posted by John Wesley on 2007-01-01 00:00:00
This psalm may assist us in our solemn feast-days, in praising God, for what he is, and what he has done, ver. 1-7. In admonishing one another, concerning our obligations to God, the danger of revolting from him, and the happiness of keeping close to him, ver. 8-16. To the chief musician upon Gittith, A psalm of Asaph.
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