--- title: "Psalm 81: Sing for Joy to God Our Strength" description: "Sing for joy to God our strength; make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob. Lift..." image: "" book: "Psalms" bookId: "PSA" testament: "old" startChapter: 81 startVerse: 1 endChapter: 81 endVerse: 16 coversChapters: [81] aiTitle: "Psalm 81: Sing for Joy to God Our Strength" aiDescription: "Sing for joy to God our strength; make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob. Lift..." hasAiStory: true location: "Egypt" persons: ["God","Jacob","Joseph"] hashtags: ["deliverance","faith","idolatry","judgment"] genre: "poetry" readingTime: 2 type: "adaptive" slug: "PSA/psalm-81-sing-for-joy-to-god-our-strength" canonicalId: "PSA.81.1-81.16" chronologicalOrder: 590 relatedSlugs: ["DEU/the-song-of-moses","ROM/unrighteous-nations","EXO/the-ten-commandments-moses-comforts-the-people","JER/the-temple-sermon-part-1","JHN/jesus-the-true-vine","PSA/psalm-107-thanksgiving-for-deliverance","DEU/remembering-mount-sinai","ISA/deliverance-promised-to-israel","JHN/jesus-teaches-at-the-feast","REV/the-world-to-come","EPH/pauls-prayer-for-the-ephesians","ISA/woe-to-the-rebellious-children","PSA/psalm-50-the-mighty-one-calls","PSA/psalm-37-delight-yourself-in-the-lord","REV/conclusion","ACT/the-rebellion-of-israel","JHN/ask-and-you-will-receive","EXO/god-and-israel-meet-at-mount-sinai","ISA/unto-us-a-child-is-born","JDG/samsons-riddle","EXO/the-crossing-of-the-red-sea","DEU/call-to-obedience","JER/the-broken-covenant","JER/the-new-covenant"] prevSlug: "PSA/psalm-80-hear-us-o-shepherd-of-israel" nextSlug: "PSA/psalm-82-god-presides-in-the-divine-assembly" --- ### Sing for Joy to God Our Strength Sing for joy to [God](/persons/god) our strength;make a joyful noise to the God of [Jacob](/persons/jacob). Lift up a song, strike the tambourine,play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre. Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon,and at the full moon on the day of our Feast. For this is a statute for Israel,an ordinance of the God of Jacob. He ordained it as a testimony for [Joseph](/persons/joseph)when he went out over the land of Egypt,where I heard an unfamiliar language: “I relieved his shoulder of the burden;his hands were freed from the basket. You called out in distress, and I rescued you;I answered you from the cloud of thunder;I tested you at the waters of Meribah.
Selah Hear, O My people, and I will warn you:O Israel, if only you would listen to Me! There must be no strange god among you,nor shall you bow to a foreign god. I am the LORD your God,who brought you up out of Egypt.Open wide your mouth,and I will fill it. But My people would not listen to Me,and Israel would not obey Me. So I gave them up to their stubborn heartsto follow their own devices. If only My people would listen to Me,if Israel would follow My ways, how soon I would subdue their enemiesand turn My hand against their foes! Those who hate the LORD would feign obedience,and their doom would last forever. But I would feed you the finest wheat;with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

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