Psalm 81

1Sing aloud to God our strength, for joy to the God of Jacob. 2Raise a song, sound the timbrel, and harp. 3On the new moon blow the horn, at the full moon, the day of our festival. 4For this is a statute for Israel, a ruling of the God of Jacob, 5a witness he set up in Joseph, when he marched against Egypt’s land, he heard an unknown voice say: 6‘I removed from your shoulder the burden, and freed your hands from the basket. 7At your call of distress I delivered you, from the thundercloud I answered you. At Meribah’s waters I tested you. Selah 8‘Listen, my people, to my warning, O Israel, if you would but listen! 9There must not be a strange god among you, you must bow to no foreign god. 10I am the Lord your God who brought you up out of Egypt. your mouth, that I fill it. 11‘But my people did not listen to my voice, would have none of me. 12So to their own hard hearts I left them, to follow their own devices. 13O that my people would listen, that Israel would walk in my ways. 14Soon would I humble their enemies, and turn my hand on their foes. 15Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him in everlasting terror.