Psalms 81:2-10

²(81:3) Lift up psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

³(81:4) Blow on the new moon the cornet, at the time appointed, on the day of our feast.

⁴(81:5) For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance by the God of Jacob.

⁵(81:6) As a testimony in Joseph did he ordain it, when he went out over the land of Egypt. The language of one I had not known did I hear.

⁶(81:7) I removed from the burden his shoulder: his hands left behind the burden-basket.

⁷(81:8) In distress thou didst call, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret of the thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

⁸(81:9) Hear, O my people, and I will give warning unto thee; O Israel, if thou wouldst but hearken unto me!

⁹(81:10) There shall not be among thee a foreign God; nor shalt thou bow thyself down to any strange God.

¹⁰(81:11) I am the Lord thy God, who have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: open wide thy mouth, and I will fill it.