The King James Version Bible

Psalms 81:1-8

  1. Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

  2. Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

  3. Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

  4. For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

  5. 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.

  6. I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.

  7. 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.

  8. Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;