Psalms 81

1For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph. Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!Cross-references: Gen 50:17 · Ps 8:1 · Ps 18:1 · Ps 28:7 · Ps 33:1 · Ps 46:1 · +8 more

2Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.Cross-references: Ex 15:20 · Ps 92:3 · Ps 95:1 · Ps 149:1 · Mark 14:26 · Eph 5:19 · +2 more

3Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.Cross-references: Lev 23:24 · Num 10:1 · Num 15:3 · Num 28:11 · Deut 16:15 · 2Ki 4:23 · +12 more

4For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

5He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know.Cross-references: Ex 11:4 · Ex 12:12 · Ex 12:27 · Ex 12:29 · Ex 13:8 · Ex 13:14 · +11 more

6“I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.Cross-references: Ex 1:14 · Ex 6:6 · Ps 68:13 · Isa 9:4 · Isa 10:27 · Matt 11:29

7You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.” Selah.Cross-references: Ex 2:23 · Ex 14:10 · Ex 14:24 · Ex 14:30 · Ex 17:2 · Ex 19:19 · +6 more

8“Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!Cross-references: Ex 15:26 · Deut 5:27 · Deut 32:46 · Ps 50:7 · Ps 81:13 · Isa 1:19 · +5 more

9There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.Cross-references: Ex 20:3 · Deut 6:14 · Deut 32:12 · Ps 44:20 · Isa 43:12 · Mal 2:11 · +1 more

10I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.Cross-references: Ex 20:2 · Ps 37:3 · Ps 107:9 · Jer 11:4 · Jer 31:31 · John 7:37 · +5 more

11But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.Cross-references: Ex 32:1 · Deut 32:15 · Deut 32:18 · Ps 106:12 · Prov 1:30 · Jer 2:11 · +3 more

12So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.Cross-references: Gen 6:3 · Ex 11:9 · Job 8:4 · Isa 30:1 · Jer 7:24 · Jer 44:16 · +5 more

13Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!Cross-references: Deut 5:29 · Deut 10:12 · Deut 32:29 · Isa 48:18 · Matt 23:37 · Luke 19:41

14I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.Cross-references: Num 14:9 · Num 14:45 · Josh 23:13 · Judg 2:20 · Ps 47:3 · Amos 1:8 · +1 more

15The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.Cross-references: Ex 20:5 · Deut 7:10 · Ps 18:44 · Ps 63:3 · Ps 83:2 · Ps 102:28 · +5 more

16But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”Cross-references: Deut 32:13 · Judg 14:8 · Judg 14:18 · 1Sam 14:25 · Job 29:6 · Ps 147:14 · +1 more