Psalm 81

O sing merrily unto God our strength; make a cheerful noise unto the God of Jacob.

Take the psalm, bring hither the timbrel, the merry harp with the lute.

Blow the trumpet at the new moon, even in the time appointed, and on our solemn feast day.

For this was made a statute for Israel and a law of the God of Jacob.

This he laid upon Joseph for a testimony, when he came out of the land of Egypt.

“I eased his shoulder from the burden, and his hands were delivered from bearing the load.

You called upon me in troubles, and I delivered you, and I answered you in the thundercloud and tested you at the waters of strife.

Hear, O my people, and I will admonish you; O Israel, if you will hearken unto me,

There shall be no strange god among you, neither shall you worship any other god.

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt; open your mouth wide, and I shall fill it.

But my people would not hear my voice, and Israel would not obey me.

So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their hearts, and let them follow their own imaginations.

Oh, that my people would have hearkened unto me, that Israel had walked in my ways.

I would soon have put down their enemies and turned my hand against their adversaries.

The haters of the Lord would humble themselves before him, and their time of punishment would endure for ever.

But Israel would I feed with the finest wheat-flour, and with honey out of the stony rock would I satisfy him.”