Psalms 81

¹Sing aloud to God, our strength!

²Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine,

³Blow the trumpet at the New Moon,

⁴For it is a statute for Israel,

⁵He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant,

⁶“I removed his shoulder from the burden.

⁷You called in trouble, and I delivered you.

⁸“Hear, my people, and I will testify to you,

⁹There shall be no strange god in you,

¹⁰I am Yahweh, your God,

¹¹But my people didn’t listen to my voice.

¹²So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts,

¹³Oh that my people would listen to me,

¹⁴I would soon subdue their enemies,

¹⁵The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him,

¹⁶But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat.