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Psalms 81

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Part of Book III📖 Psalms introduction

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1Sing for joy to God our strength; Shout joyfully to the God of Jacob. ✦ 2Raise a song, strike the tambourine, The sweet sounding 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 established it as a testimony in Joseph When he went throughout the land of Egypt. I heard a language I did not know: ✦ 6¶“I relieved his shoulder of the burden, His hands were freed from the basket. ✦ 7“You called in trouble and I rescued you; I answered you in the hiding place of thunder; I put you to the test at the waters of Meribah. Selah ✦ 8“Hear, My people, and I will admonish you; Israel, if you would listen to Me! ✦ 9“There shall be no strange god among you; Nor shall you worship a foreign god. ✦ 10“I, the Lord, am your God, Who brought you up from the land of Egypt; Open your mouth wide and I will fill it. ✦ 11¶“But My people did not listen to My voice, And Israel did not obey Me. ✦ 12“So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart, To walk by their own plans. ✦ 13“Oh that My people would listen to Me, That Israel would walk in My ways! ✦ 14“I would quickly subdue their enemies And turn My hand against their adversaries. ✦ 15“Those who hate the Lord would pretend to obey Him, And their time of punishment would be forever. ✦ 16“But I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, And with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.” ✦

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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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