Book of Psalms, No. 81
Psalms 81 NWT - New World TranslationNo. 81 of the Psalms—New World Translation (NWT)
- ¶ O cry out joyfully, YOU people, to God our strength;1
Shout in triumph to the God of Jacob.2 - ¶ Strike up a melody3 and take a tambourine,4
The pleasant harp together with the stringed instrument.5 - ¶ On the new moon, BLOW the horn;[a]6
On the full moon, for the day of our festival.7 - ¶ For it is a regulation for Israel,8
A judicial decision of the God[b] of Jacob. - ¶ As a reminder he laid it upon Joseph himself,9
When he was going forth over the land of Egypt.10
A language[c] that I did not know I kept hearing.11 - ¶ “I[d] turned aside his shoulder even from [the] burden;12
His own hands got to be free even from the basket.13 - ¶ In distress you called, and I proceeded to rescue you;14
I began to answer you in the concealed place of thunder.15
I went examining you at the waters of Merʹi·bah.16 Seʹlah. - ¶ Hear, O my people, and I will bear witness against you,17
O Israel, if you will listen to me.18 - ¶ Among you there will prove to be no strange god;[e]19
And you will not bow down to a foreign god.20 - ¶ I, Jehovah, am your God,[f]21
The One bringing you up out of the land of Egypt.22
Open your mouth wide, and I shall fill it.23 - ¶ But my people has not listened to my voice;24
And Israel itself has not showed any willingness toward me.25 - ¶ And so I let them go[g] in the stubbornness of their heart;26
They went walking in their own counsels.27 - ¶ O that my people were listening to me,28
O that Israel itself would walk in my very ways!29 - ¶ Their enemies I would easily subdue,30
And against their adversaries I would turn my hand.31 - ¶ As for those intensely hating Jehovah, they will come cringing to him,32
And their time will prove to be to time indefinite. - ¶ And he will keep feeding him off the fat of the wheat,33
And out of the rock I shall satisfy you with honey34 itself.”
FOOTNOTES
- ^ Or, “shofar.” Heb., shoh·pharʹ.
- ^ “Tents,” by transposing two Heb. letters to correspond with the first half of the vs.
- ^ Lit., “lip.” See Ge 11:1 ftn, “Language.”
- ^ “I,” MTSy; LXXVg, “He.”
- ^ “God.” Heb., ʼel.
- ^ Or, “I am Jehovah your God.” Heb., ʼa·no·khiʹ Yehwahʹ ʼElo·heyʹkha.
- ^ Lit., “I sent them away.” Compare Ex 5:1, 2.
REFERENCES
- ^ Ps 28:8; Pp 4:13
- ^ Ps 33:3; Mt 22:32
- ^ Ps 33:2
- ^ Ps 149:3
- ^ Ps 92:3; Eph 5:19
- ^ Nu 10:10; 29:1
- ^ Ex 23:16
- ^ Le 23:24
- ^ Ex 12:14
- ^ Ex 12:12
- ^ Ps 114:1
- ^ Ex 6:6; Is 9:4; 10:27
- ^ Ex 1:14; 5:4
- ^ Ex 2:23; 14:10; Ps 50:15; 91:15
- ^ Ex 19:16, 19; Heb 12:19
- ^ Ex 17:6; De 33:8
- ^ De 32:36; Ps 50:7
- ^ Ex 15:26
- ^ Ex 20:3; De 6:14
- ^ Ex 20:5
- ^ De 5:6
- ^ Ex 20:2; Je 11:4
- ^ De 32:13; Ps 37:25; Re 21:6
- ^ Zc 7:11
- ^ Ex 32:1; De 32:15
- ^ Je 11:8; 18:12; Ac 7:51; Ro 1:24
- ^ Je 7:24; Mc 6:16
- ^ De 32:29; Is 48:18
- ^ De 5:29
- ^ Nu 14:9
- ^ Am 1:8
- ^ Ps 18:45; 66:3
- ^ De 32:14; Ps 147:14; Jl 2:24
- ^ De 32:13
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