(KJV) Psalm 811

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⥃Sing for Joy to God Our Strength

To the chief Musician upon Gittith, [A Psalm2] of Asaph3.

[1] Sing4 aloud unto God our strength5: make6 a joyful noise unto the God7 of Jacob. [2] Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.8 [3] Blow9 up the trumpet in the new10 moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn11 feast day. [4] For this [was] a statute for Israel, [and] a law of the God of Jacob. [5] This he ordained in Joseph12 [for] a13 testimony, when he went out through14 the land of Egypt: [where15] I heard a language [that] I understood not. [6] I removed16 his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered17 from the pots18. [7] Thou calledst19 in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret20 place of thunder: I proved21 thee at the waters of Meribah22. Selah. [8] Hear23, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt24 hearken unto me; [9] There shall25 no strange26 god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. [10] I [am27] the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open28 thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. [11] But my people29 would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none30 of me. [12] So I gave31 them up unto their own hearts’ lust32: [and] they walked33 in their own counsels. [13] Oh that34 my people had hearkened unto me, [and] Israel had walked in my ways! [14] I should35 soon have subdued their enemies, and turned36 my hand against their adversaries. [15] The haters37 of the Lord should have submitted themselves38 unto him: but their time39 should have endured for ever. [16] He should have fed40 them also with the finest of the wheat41: and with honey42 out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.

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  1. Ps 81:1, An exhortation to a solemn praising of God; Ps 81:4, God challenges that duty by reason of his benefits; Ps 81:8, God, exhorting to obedience, complains of their disobedience, which proves their own hurt. Ps 8:1 *title ↩

  2. Some suppose this Psalm to have been composed to be sung at the feast of Trumpets, before the time of David; and others think it was written at the removal of the ark to Mount Zion; but the most probable opinion is, that it was sung at the dedication of the second temple. ↩

  3. or, for Asaph ↩

  4. Ps 67:4; Jer 31:7 ↩

  5. Ps 18:1-2, Ps 28:7, Ps 52:7; Phil 4:13 ↩

  6. Ps 33:1-3, Ps 46:1-7, Ps 66:1, Ps 100:1-2 ↩

  7. Ps 46:11; Gen 50:17; Matt 22:32 ↩

  8. Ps 92:3, Ps 95:1-2, Ps 149:1-3; Mark 14:26; Eph 5:19; Col 3:16; Jas 5:13 ↩

  9. Ps 98:6; Num 10:1-9; 1Chr 15:24, 1Chr 16:6, 1Chr 16:42; 2Chr 5:12, 2Chr 13:12, 2Chr 13:14 ↩

  10. Lev 23:24-25; Num 10:10, Num 28:11; 2Kgs 4:23; Col 2:16 ↩

  11. Num 15:3; Deut 16:15; 2Chr 2:4, 2Chr 8:13; Lam 2:6; Nah 1:15 ↩

  12. Ps 77:15, Ps 80:1-2; Amos 6:6 ↩

  13. Ps 78:6; Exod 13:8-9, Exod 13:14-16; Deut 4:45; Ezek 20:20 ↩

  14. or, against, Exod 12:12, Exod 12:27, Exod 12:29 ↩

  15. Ps 114:1; Deut 28:49; Isa 28:11; Jer 5:15; 1Cor 14:21-22 ↩

  16. Exod 1:14, Exod 6:6; Isa 9:4, Isa 10:27; Matt 11:29 ↩

  17. Heb. passed away ↩

  18. Or rather, as dood also signifies (see 2Kgs 10:7; Jer 24:2, the basket, so LXX, and Symmachus, κοφινοϚ, and Vulgate and Jerome, cophino; and Diodati, le sue mani si non dipartite dalle corbe, "his hands were removed from the baskets," i.e., says he in a note, de portar la terra da far mattoni, "from carrying earth to make bricks," Exod 1:14. Ps 68:13 ↩

  19. Ps 50:15, Ps 91:14-15; Exod 2:23, Exod 14:10, Exod 14:30-31, Exod 17:2-7 ↩

  20. Exod 14:24, Exod 19:19, Exod 20:18-21 ↩

  21. Exod 17:6-7; Num 20:13, Num 20:24; Deut 33:8 ↩

  22. or, strife ↩

  23. Ps 50:7; Deut 32:46; Isa 55:3-4; John 3:11, John 3:32-33; Acts 20:21; 1John 5:9 ↩

  24. Ps 81:13; Exod 15:26; Deut 5:27; Isa 1:19 ↩

  25. Exod 20:3-5; 1Cor 8:5-6 ↩

  26. Deut 6:14, Deut 32:12; Isa 43:12; Mal 2:11 ↩

  27. Exod 20:2; Jer 11:4, Jer 31:31-33 ↩

  28. Ps 37:3-4; John 7:37, John 15:7, John 16:23; Eph 3:19-20; Rev 21:6, Rev 22:17 ↩

  29. Ps 106:12-13; Jer 2:11-13, Jer 7:23-24; Zech 7:11 ↩

  30. Exod 32:1; Deut 32:15, Deut 32:18; Prov 1:30; Heb 10:29 ↩

  31. Gen 6:3; Acts 7:42, Acts 14:16; Rom 1:24, Rom 1:26-27; 2Thess 2:9-11 ↩

  32. or, the hardness of their hearts, or imaginations ↩

  33. Exod 11:9; Isa 30:1; Jer 7:24, Jer 44:16-17 ↩

  34. Deut 5:29, Deut 10:12-13, Deut 32:29; Isa 48:18; Matt 23:37; Luke 19:41-42 ↩

  35. Num 14:9, Num 14:45; Josh 23:13; Judg 2:20-23 ↩

  36. Amos 1:8; Zech 13:7 ↩

  37. Ps 18:45, Ps 83:2-18; Exod 20:5; Deut 7:10; John 15:22-23; Rom 1:30, Rom 8:7 ↩

  38. or yielded feigned obedience, Heb. lied. Ps 18:44, Ps 63:3 *marg. ↩

  39. Ps 102:28; Isa 65:22; Joel 3:20 ↩

  40. Ps 147:14; Deut 32:13-14; Joel 2:24 ↩

  41. Heb. fat of wheat ↩

  42. Judg 14:8-9, Judg 14:18; 1Sam 14:25-26; Job 29:6 ↩