2 Sing joyfully to God, our stronghold; cry out to the God of Jacob;

3 Take a psalm, give a tympanum, a sweet-sounding harp with a psalter;

4 Blow the trumpet on the new moon, at a certain time, on the day of our feast;

5 for this is the law for Israel, the statute of the God of Jacob.

6 He instituted this as a testimony to Joseph when he came out of the land of Egypt, where he heard the sound of a tongue which he did not know:

7 "I took the weights from his shoulders, and his hands were freed from the baskets.

8 In distress thou hast called me, and I have delivered thee; out of the midst of the thunder I have heard thee, I have tried thee by the waters of the Meribah.

9 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee, O Israel! Oh, if only you would listen to Me!

10 Thou shalt have no other god, neither shall thou worship a foreign god.

11 I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt; open your mouth, and I will fill it."

12 But my people have not listened to my voice, and Israel has not submitted to me;

13 therefore I have left them to the stubbornness of their hearts, let them walk in their own thoughts.

14 Oh, that my people would listen to me, and that Israel would walk in my ways!

15 I would soon humble their enemies, and set my hand against their oppressors.

16 Those who hate the Lord would fawn on them, and their prosperity would last forever.

17 I would feed them with the fat of wheat, and feed them with honey out of the rock.

Psalm 81

Psalm of Asaph.

1 God became in the assembly of the gods; Among the gods he pronounced judgment:

2 How long wilt ye judge unrighteously, and show partiality to the wicked?

3 Give judgment to the poor and the fatherless; do justice to the oppressed and the poor;