Psalm 81. Exultate Deo.

1. Sing with joy to God our strength *
   and raise a loud shout to the God of Jacob.
2. Raise a song and sound the timbrel, *
   the merry harp, and the lyre.
3. Blow the ram's-horn at the new moon, *
   and at the full moon, the day of our feast.
4. For this is a statute for Israel, *
   a law of the God of Jacob.
5. He laid it as a solemn charge upon Joseph, *
   when he came out of the land of Egypt.
6. I heard an unfamiliar voice saying *
   "I eased his shoulder from the burden; his hands were set free from bearing the load."
7. You called on me in trouble, and I saved you; *
   I answered you from the secret place of thunder and tested you at the waters of Meribah.
8. Hear, O my people, and I will admonish you: *
   O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
9. There shall be no strange god among you; *
   you shall not worship a foreign god.
10. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and said, *
    Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11. And yet my people did not hear my voice, *
    and Israel would not obey me.
12. So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their hearts, *
    to follow their own devices.
13. Oh, that my people would listen to me! *
    that Israel would walk in my ways!
14. I should soon subdue their enemies *
    and turn my hand against their foes.
15. Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him, *
    and their punishment would last for ever.
16. But Israel would I feed with the finest wheat *
    and satisfy him with honey from the rock.