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Psalms 81

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Part of Book III📖 Psalms introduction

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1Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. ✦ 2Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. ✦ 3Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. ✦ 4For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. 5This 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. ✦ 6I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots. ✦ 7Thou 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. ✦ 8Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; ✦ 9There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. ✦ 10I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. ✦ 11But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. ✦ 12So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels. ✦ 13Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! ✦ 14I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. ✦ 15The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. ✦ 16He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. ✦

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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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  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

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

Pastoral

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 81David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 81Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

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