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		</div><h3><span style="font-size:large;"><span class="text Ps-81-1" id="en-NIV-15219">Psalm 81</span></span></h3>
<h4><span style="font-size:large;"><span class="text Ps-81-1">For the director of music. According to <i>gittith.</i> Of Asaph.</span></span></h4>
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<div class="line"><span style="font-size:large;"><span class="text Ps-81-1"><sup class="versenum">1 </sup>Sing for joy to God our strength;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-81-1">shout aloud to the God of Jacob!</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-81-2" id="en-NIV-15220"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>Begin the music, strike the timbrel,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-81-2">play the melodious harp and lyre.</span></span></span></div>
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<div class="line"><span style="font-size:large;"><span class="text Ps-81-3" id="en-NIV-15221"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-81-3">and when the moon is full, on the day of our festival;</span></span></span><br /><a name='more'></a><span style="font-size:large;"><br /><span class="text Ps-81-4" id="en-NIV-15222"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>this is a decree for Israel,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-81-4">an ordinance of the God of Jacob.</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-81-5" id="en-NIV-15223"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>When God went out against Egypt,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-81-5">he established it as a statute for Joseph.</span></span></span></div>
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<div class="line"><span style="font-size:large;"><span class="text Ps-81-5">I heard an unknown voice say:</span></span></div>
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<div class="line"><span style="font-size:large;"><span class="text Ps-81-6" id="en-NIV-15224"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>“I removed the burden from their shoulders;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-81-6">their hands were set free from the basket.</span></span></span></div>
<p><span style="font-size:large;"><br /><span class="text Ps-81-7" id="en-NIV-15225"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>In your distress you called and I rescued you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-81-7">I answered you out of a thundercloud;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-81-7">I tested you at the waters of Meribah.</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-81-8" id="en-NIV-15226"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>Hear me, my people, and I will warn you—</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-81-8">if you would only listen to me, Israel!</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-81-9" id="en-NIV-15227"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>You shall have no foreign god among you;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-81-9">you shall not worship any god other than me.</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-81-10" id="en-NIV-15228"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>I am the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Lord</span> your God,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-81-10">who brought you up out of Egypt.</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-81-10">Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.</span></span></div>
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<div class="line"><span style="font-size:large;"><span class="text Ps-81-11" id="en-NIV-15229"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>“But my people would not listen to me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-81-11">Israel would not submit to me.</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-81-12" id="en-NIV-15230"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-81-12">to follow their own devices.</span></span></span></div>
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<div class="line"><span style="font-size:large;"><span class="text Ps-81-13" id="en-NIV-15231"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>“If my people would only listen to me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-81-13">if Israel would only follow my ways,</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-81-14" id="en-NIV-15232"><sup class="versenum">14 </sup>how quickly I would subdue their enemies</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-81-14">and turn my hand against their foes!</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-81-15" id="en-NIV-15233"><sup class="versenum">15 </sup>Those who hate the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Lord</span> would cringe before him,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-81-15">and their punishment would last forever.</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-81-16" id="en-NIV-15234"><sup class="versenum">16 </sup>But you would be fed with the finest of wheat;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-81-16">with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”</span></span></span></div>
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