Psalms 81:1-6

¹For the leader. On the gittith. Of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength, shout for joy to the God of Jacob.

²Raise a song, sound the timbrel, sweet lyre 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, where he heard an unknown voice say:

⁶“I removed from your shoulder the burden, and freed your hands from the basket.