Salmos 81

1 (For the one directing. On the gittis. Of Asaph)

2 Sing with joy unto Elohim uzeinu (our strength);

make a joyful noise unto Elohei Ya’akov.

3 Begin a song, and bring hither the tambourine,

the pleasant kinnor (harp) with the nevel (lyre).

4 Blow the shofar at Rosh Chodesh,

at the full moon, on Yom Chageinu.

5 For this was a chok for Yisroel,

and a mishpat of the Elohei Ya’akov.

6 This He ordained in Yosef for an edut,

when He went out over Eretz Mitzrayim;

where a language of one not known did I hear.

7 I removed his shekhem (shoulder) from the burden;

his hands were delivered from the basket.

8 In tzoros thou calledst, and I delivered thee;

I answered thee in the seter ra’am (secret place of thunder);

I tested thee at the waters of Merivah. Selah

9 Shema, O My people, and I will admonish thee;

O Yisroel, if thou wilt pay heed unto Me;

10 There shall no el zar (strange, foreign g-d) be among thee;

neither shalt thou worship any el nechar (foreign g-d).

11 I am Hashem Eloheicha

Who brought thee out of Eretz Mitzrayim;

open thy mouth wide, I will fill it.

12 But My people would not pay heed to My voice;

and Yisroel would have none of Me.

13 So I gave them up

unto their own heartsʼ sherirut (stubbornness);

and they walked in their own mo’atzot (counsels).

14 Oh that My people had paid heed unto Me,

and Yisroel had walked in My ways!

15 I should soon have subdued their oyevim

and turned My Yad (hand, power) against their adversaries.

16 The haters of Hashem should have cringed before Him;

their et (time, fate, punishment) endures l’olam.

17 He would have fed them also with the finest of the chittah (wheat);

and with devash (honey) from the Tzur would I have satisfied thee.