Moff by section PSA 81:1

Psalm 81

From the Choirmaster’s collection. Set to a vintage melody. An Asaphite song.

81 Sing aloud to God our strength,

shout for joy to Jacob’s God;

2 raise the chorus, sound the drum,

sound the sweet lyre and the lute,

3 at the new moon blow the trumpet,

and at full moon, for our festival.

4 This is laid down for Israel,

a rule of Jacob’s God;

5 he made it a law in Joseph,

on leaving Egypt’s land.

I heard one whom I knew not, saying:

6 “I freed your shoulder from the load,

your hands from the heavy hod;

7 at your cry of distress I rescued you,

I answered you from thunder-clouds,

I tested you at the waters of Merîbah.

8 Listen, my people, to my warning–

O Israel, if you would only listen:

9 you must allow no foreign god,

no worship of an outside god;

10 I am your God, I the Eternal,

who brought you out of Egypt’s land;

open your mouth and I will fill it.

11 But my people would not listen,

Israel would have none of me;

12 so I left them to their own self-will,

to follow their own devices.

13 Oh that my people would listen to me,

that Israel would live my life!

14 I would soon subdue their foes,

and strike at their oppressors;

15 those who hate them would cower before them,

in unending terror;

16 and I would feed them with the finest wheat,

with honey from the rock to their hearts’ content.”