1 Vir die musiekleier; op die Gittiet. 'n Psalm van Asaf.

3 Hef aan 'n lied en laat die tamboeryn klink, die lieflike siter saam met die harp.

4 Blaas die basuin op nuwemaan, op volmaan vir ons feesdag.

5 Want dit is 'n insetting vir Israel, 'n verordening van die God van Jakob.

6 Hy het dit ingestel as getuienis in Josef toe Hy uitgetrek het teen Egipteland. 'n Taal wat ek nie geken het nie, het ek gehoor:

7 Ek het sy skouer bevry van die las, sy hande het die mandjie gelos.

8 In die nood het jy geroep, en Ek het jou uitgered; Ek het jou geantwoord in die skuilplek van die donder; Ek het jou getoets by die waters van M,riba. Sela.

9 Hoor, my volk, en Ek wil jou dit inskerp; Israel, as jy tog na My wou luister!

10 Daar mag by jou geen vreemde god wees nie, en voor 'n uitlandse god mag jy jou nie neerbuig nie.

11 Ek is die HERE jou God wat jou laat optrek het uit Egipteland; maak jou mond wyd oop, dat Ek dit kan vul.

12 Maar my volk het na my stem nie geluister nie, en Israel was vir My nie gewillig nie.

13 Toe het Ek hulle oorgegee aan die verhardheid van hul hart, dat hulle in hul eie planne kon wandel.

14 Ag, as my volk maar na My wou luister, Israel in my weë wou wandel!

15 Gou sou Ek hul vyande onderwerp en my hand teen hul teëstanders uitstrek.

16 Die haters van die HERE sou kruipende na Hom toe kom; maar hulle tyd sou vir ewig wees. [ (Psalms 81:17) Ja, Hy sou hulle voed met die beste van die koring; en met heuning uit die rots sou Ek jou versadig. ]

1 To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith. Of Asaph.

2 \81:1\Make a song to God our strength: make a glad cry to the God of Jacob.

3 \81:2\Take up the melody, playing on an instrument of music, even on corded instruments.

4 \81:3\Let the horn be sounded in the time of the new moon, at the full moon, on our holy feast-day:

5 \81:4\For this is a rule for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

6 \81:5\He gave it to Joseph as a witness, when he went out over the land of Egypt; then the words of a strange tongue were sounding in my ears.

7 \81:6\I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets.

8 \81:7\You gave a cry in your trouble, and I made you free; I gave you an answer in the secret place of the thunder; I put you to the test at the waters of Meribah. (Selah.)

9 \81:8\Give ear, O my people, and I will give you my word, O Israel, if you will only do as I say!

10 \81:9\There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.

11 \81:10\I am the Lord your God, who took you up from the land of Egypt: let your mouth be open wide, so that I may give you food.

12 \81:11\But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me.

13 \81:12\So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.

14 \81:13\If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways!

15 \81:14\I would quickly overcome their haters: my hand would be turned against those who make war on them.

16 \81:15\The haters of the Lord would be broken, and their destruction would be eternal.

17 \81:16\I would give them the best grain for food; you would be full of honey from the rock.