{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/psalms/81","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T07:23:35.603Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":81,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":80,"nextChapter":82,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":16},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"{To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph.} Sing ye joyously unto God our strength, shout aloud unto the God of Jacob;"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with the lute."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the set time, on our feast day:"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob;"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"He ordained it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went forth over the land of Egypt, where I heard a language that I knew not."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from the basket."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Hear, my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"There shall no strange god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any foreign god."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"I am Jehovah thy God, that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"So I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had walked in my ways!"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"The haters of Jehovah would have come cringing unto him; but their time would have been for ever."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And he would have fed them with the finest of wheat; yea, with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied thee."}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 81 (DBT)","markdown":"[Psalms 81](https://primebible.com/dbt/psalms/81)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/psalms/81 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}