Psalms 81
Authorized King James Version (1769) with AI Commentary
1Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.🔗🔍
2Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.🔗🔍
3Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.🔗🔍
4For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.🔗🔍
5This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.🔗🔍
6I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.🔗🔍
7Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.🔗🔍
8Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;🔗🔍
9There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.🔗🔍
10I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.🔗🔍
11But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.🔗🔍
12So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.🔗🔍
13Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!🔗🔍
14I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.🔗🔍
15The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.🔗🔍
16He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.🔗🔍
2Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.🔗🔍
3Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.🔗🔍
4For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.🔗🔍
5This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.🔗🔍
6I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.🔗🔍
7Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.🔗🔍
8Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;🔗🔍
9There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.🔗🔍
10I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.🔗🔍
11But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.🔗🔍
12So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.🔗🔍
13Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!🔗🔍
14I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.🔗🔍
15The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.🔗🔍
16He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.🔗🔍
🤖 AI Commentary
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