Psalms 81
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Sing aloud to God, our strength!
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Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine,
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Blow the trumpet at the New Moon,
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For it is a statute for Israel,
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He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant,
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“I removed his shoulder from the burden.
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You called in trouble, and I delivered you.
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“Hear, my people, and I will testify to you,
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There shall be no strange god in you,
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I am the LORD, your God,
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But my people didn’t listen to my voice.
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So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts,
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Oh that my people would listen to me,
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I would soon subdue their enemies,
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The haters of the LORD would cringe before him,
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But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat.