PSALMS.
81.
Sing  songs to praise God, who enables us to be strong  when we fight our enemies; shout joyfully to God, whom we ◄descendants of Jacob/Israeli people►  worship! 
Start  playing the music, and beat the tambourines, and play nice music on the harps and ◄lyres/other stringed instruments►. 
Blow the trumpets  during the festival to celebrate each new moon and each time the moon is full and during our  other festivals. 
 Do that because that is a law for  us Israeli  people; God commanded it for us descendants of Jacob. 
He commanded us Israeli  people to obey it when he punished  the people of Egypt. I heard someone MTY whose voice I did not recognize, saying, 
“ After the rulers of Egypt forced you Israelis to work as slaves, I took those  heavy burdens off your backs, and I enabled you to lay down those  heavy baskets  of bricks that you were carrying. 
When you were  greatly distressed, you called  out to me, and I rescued you; I answered you out of a thundercloud.  Later I tested  whether you would trust me to give you water  when you were in the desert at Meribah. 
 You who are my people, listen while I warn you! I wish that you Israeli  people would pay attention to what I  say to you! 
You must not have any idols of other gods among you; you must never bow to worship any of them! 
I am Yahweh, your God; It was  not any of those other gods who brought you out of Egypt, I am the one who did it!  So ask me what you want me to do for you MTY, and I will do it. 
But my people would not listen to me SYN; they would not obey me. 
So even though they were very stubborn, I allowed them to do whatever they wanted to do. 
I wish that my people would listen to me, that the Israeli  people would behave as I want them to do. 
 If they did that, I would quickly defeat their enemies; I would strike/punish  all of them DOU. 
 Then all those who hate me would ◄cringe before/bow down to► me, and  then I would punish them MTY forever. 
 But I would give you Israelis very good wheat/grain, and I would fill your stomachs with wild honey.”