{"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/ylt/psalms/81","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T09:40:42.868Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":81,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":80,"nextChapter":82,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":16},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"To the Overseer. — 'On the Gittith.' By Asaph. Cry aloud to God our strength, Shout to the God of Jacob."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with psaltery."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Blow in the month a trumpet, In the new moon, at the day of our festival,"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For a statute to Israel it is, An ordinance of the God of Jacob."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"A testimony on Joseph He hath placed it, In his going forth over the land of Egypt. A lip, I have not known — I hear."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"From the burden his shoulder I turned aside, His hands from the basket pass over."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"In distress thou hast called and I deliver thee, I answer thee in the secret place of thunder, I try thee by the waters of Meribah. Selah."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me:"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"I am Jehovah thy God, Who bringeth thee up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge thy mouth, and I fill it."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand,"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is — to the age."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"He causeth him to eat of the fat of wheat, And with honey from a rock I satisfy thee!"}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 81 (YLT)","markdown":"[Psalms 81](https://primebible.com/ylt/psalms/81)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/psalms/81 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}