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Author:Traditional Attribution
Topic:psalms Chapter 81 Study
This chapter provides a foundational look at the theological themes of psalms, analyzed across multiple historic translations for maximum scholarly depth.
Psalms 81
Bishops' Bible
1To the chiefe musition vpon Gittith, of Asaph. Sing we meryly vnto the Lorde our strength: make a chearefull noyse vnto the Lorde of Iacob.
2Take the psalterie: bryng hyther the tabret, the merie harpe, with the lute.
3Blowe vp the trumpet in the newe moone, euen in the time appointed: and vpon our solempne feast day.
4For this was made a statute for Israel: and a lawe of the God of Iacob.
5This he ordayned in Ioseph for a testimonie, when he came out of the lande of Egypt: where I hearde a tongue whiche I knewe not.
6I eased his shoulder from the burthen: and his handes ceassed from making pottes.
7Thou calledst vpon me in troubles, and I deliuered thee: I hearde thee out of the middest of a thunder, I proued thee also at the waters of strife. Selah.
8Then I sayd heare O my people: and I wyll geue thee a charge O Israel in protesting vnto thee.
9If thou wylt hearken vnto me, there shall be no straunge God in thee: neither shalt thou geue worship to any other Lorde beside me.
10I am God thy Lorde which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wyde, and I wyll fill it.
11But my people woulde not heare my voyce: and Israel would not obey me.
12So I gaue them vp vnto the wicked cogitations of their owne heartes: and I did let them folowe their owne imaginations.
13O that my people woulde haue hearkened vnto me: O that Israel had walked in my wayes.
14I should soone haue tamed their enemies: and turned myne hande against their aduersaries.
15The haters of God shoulde haue ben founde liers: and their time should haue endured for euer.
16He woulde haue fed them also with the finest wheate flowre: and I would haue satisfied thee with honie out of the stonie rocke.