Psalms 81
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God is praised for what he has done for his people
Verse 1
WEB For 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!
KJV To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
TSK A. M. 3489. B.C. 515. Gittith: ps 8:1; Sing: ps 67:4, jer 31:7; our strength: ps 18:1,2, ps 28:7, ps 52:7, php 4:13; make: ps 33:1-3, ps 46:1-7, ps 66:1, ps 100:1,2; the God: ps 46:11, ge 50:17, mt 22:32
Verse 2
WEB Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.
KJV Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
TSK Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.: ps 92:3, ps 95:1,2, ps 149:1-3, mr 14:26, eph 5:19, col 3:16, jas 5:13
Verse 3
WEB Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
KJV Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
TSK Blow: ps 98:6, nu 10:1-9, 1ch 15:24, 1ch 16:6,42, 2ch 5:12, 2ch 13:12,14; new: le 23:24,25, nu 10:10, nu 28:11, 2ki 4:23, col 2:16; solemn: nu 15:3, de 16:15, 2ch 2:4, 2ch 8:13, la 2:6, na 1:15
Verse 4
WEB For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
KJV For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
TSK No cross references.
Verse 5
WEB He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know.
KJV This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
TSK in Joseph: ps 77:15, ps 80:1,2, am 6:6; for a: ps 78:6, ex 13:8,9,14-16, de 4:45, eze 20:20; through: ex 12:12,27,29; where: ps 114:1, de 28:49, isa 28:11, jer 5:15, 1co 14:21,22
Verse 7
WEB You 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.
KJV Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
TSK calledst: ps 50:15, ps 91:14,15, ex 2:23, ex 14:10,30,31, ex 17:2-7; secret: ex 14:24, ex 19:19, ex 20:18-21; proved: ex 17:6,7, nu 20:13,24, de 33:8
Their obligations to him
Verse 8
WEB “Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!
KJV Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
TSK Hear: ps 50:7, de 32:46, isa 55:3,4, joh 3:11,32,33, ac 20:21, 1jo 5:9; if thou wilt: ps 81:13, ex 15:26, de 5:27, isa 1:19
Verse 10
WEB I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
KJV I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
TSK I am: ex 20:2, jer 11:4, jer 31:31-33; open: ps 37:3,4, joh 7:37, joh 15:7, joh 16:23, eph 3:19,20, re 21:6, re 22:17
Verse 11
WEB But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
KJV But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
TSK people: ps 106:12,13, jer 2:11-13, jer 7:23,24, zec 7:11; would none: ex 32:1, de 32:15,18, pr 1:30, heb 10:29
Verse 12
WEB So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
KJV So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
TSK I gave: ge 6:3, ac 7:42, ac 14:16, ro 1:24,26,27, 2th 2:9-11; they walked: ex 11:9, isa 30:1, jer 7:24, jer 44:16,17
Verse 13
WEB Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
KJV Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
TSK Oh that: de 5:29, de 10:12,13, de 32:29, isa 48:18, mt 23:37, lu 19:41,42
Verse 14
WEB I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
KJV I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
TSK I should: nu 14:9,45, jos 23:13, jud 2:20-23; turned: am 1:8, zec 13:7
Verse 15
WEB The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.
KJV The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
TSK The haters: ps 18:45, ps 83:2-18, ex 20:5, de 7:10, joh 15:22,23, ro 1:30, ro 8:7; submitted themselves: ps 18:44, ps 63:3; time: ps 102:28, isa 65:22, joe 3:20
Verse 16
WEB But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”
KJV He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
TSK fed: ps 147:14, de 32:13,14, joe 2:24; honey: jud 14:8,9,18, 1sa 14:25,26, job 29:6