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Psalms 81

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Part of Book III📖 Psalms introduction

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1Sing praises to God, our strength. Sing to the God of Jacob. ✦ 2Sing! Beat the tambourine. Play the sweet lyre and the harp. ✦ 3Blow the ram’s horn at new moon, and again at full moon to call a festival! ✦ 4For this is required by the decrees of Israel; it is a regulation of the God of Jacob. 5He made it a law for Israel when he attacked Egypt to set us free. I heard an unknown voice say, ✦ 6“Now I will take the load from your shoulders; I will free your hands from their heavy tasks. ✦ 7You cried to me in trouble, and I saved you; I answered out of the thundercloud and tested your faith when there was no water at Meribah. Interlude ✦ 8“Listen to me, O my people, while I give you stern warnings. O Israel, if you would only listen to me! ✦ 9You must never have a foreign god; you must not bow down before a false god. ✦ 10For it was I, the Lord your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it with good things. ✦ 11“But no, my people wouldn’t listen. Israel did not want me around. ✦ 12So I let them follow their own stubborn desires, living according to their own ideas. ✦ 13Oh, that my people would listen to me! Oh, that Israel would follow me, walking in my paths! ✦ 14How quickly I would then subdue their enemies! How soon my hands would be upon their foes! ✦ 15Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him; they would be doomed forever. ✦ 16But I would feed you with the finest wheat. I would satisfy you with wild honey from 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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    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

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

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