Psalms 81 / 150
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(Oh, That My People Would Listen to Me)To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. Of Asaph.
Sing aloud to God our strength;
shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
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Raise a song; sound the tambourine,
the sweet lyre with the harp.
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Blow the trumpet at the new moon,
at the full moon, on our feast day.
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For it is a statute for Israel,
a rule of the God of Jacob.
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He made it a decree in Joseph
when he went out over the land of Egypt.
I hear a language I had not known:
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"I relieved your shoulder of the burden;
your hands were freed from the basket.
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In 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
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Hear, O my people, while I admonish you!
O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
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There shall be no strange god among you;
you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
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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.
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"But my people did not listen to my voice;
Israel would not submit to me.
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So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,
to follow their own counsels.
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Oh, that my people would listen to me,
that Israel would walk in my ways!
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I would soon subdue their enemies
and turn my hand against their foes.
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Those who hate the Lord would cringe toward him,
and their fate would last forever.
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But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat,
and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."