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Psalms 81

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Part of Book III📖 Psalms introduction

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1For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph. Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob! ✦ 2Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp. ✦ 3Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day. ✦ 4For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob. 5He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know. ✦ 6“I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket. ✦ 7You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.” Selah. ✦ 8“Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me! ✦ 9There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god. ✦ 10I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. ✦ 11But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me. ✦ 12So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels. ✦ 13Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! ✦ 14I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries. ✦ 15The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever. ✦ 16But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.” ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Deut 32 ·6Exod 20 ·4Exod 12 ·3Exod 14 ·3Rom 1 ·3Exod 11 ·2Num 14 ·2Exod 15 ·2

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 81 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

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