Verse 8
Psalms 81:8
Young's Literal Translation
8
Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me:
Original Language Text
hebrew
בַּ/צָּרָ֥ה קָרָ֗אתָ וָ/אֲחַ֫לְּצֶ֥/ךָּ אֶ֭עֶנְ/ךָ בְּ/סֵ֣תֶר רַ֑עַם אֶבְחָֽנְ/ךָ֨ עַל מֵ֖י מְרִיבָ֣ה סֶֽלָה
English Translation
In trouble, you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
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Chapter 81 Context
1
To the Overseer. -- 'On the Gittith.' By Asaph. Cry aloud to God (Elohim) our strength, Shout to the...
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Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with psaltery.
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3
Blow in the month a trumpet, In the new moon, at the day of our festival,
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4
For a statute to Israel it [is], An ordinance of the God (Elohim) of Jacob.
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5
A testimony on Joseph He hath placed it, In his going forth over the land of Egypt. A lip, I have no...
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From the burden his shoulder I turned aside, His hands from the basket pass over.
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7
In distress thou hast called and I deliver thee, I answer thee in the secret place of thunder, I try...
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8
Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me:
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There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god.
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10
I [am] Jehovah thy God (Elohim), Who bringeth thee up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge thy mouth, a...
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11
But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me.
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12
And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.
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13
O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.
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14
As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand,
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Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is -- to the age.
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He causeth him to eat of the fat of wheat, And [with] honey from a rock I satisfy thee!
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