# Psalm 81 ## Psalm 81:1 - [KJV] Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. - [ASV] Sing aloud unto God our strength: Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. - [YLT] Cry aloud to God our strength, Shout to the God of Jacob. ### Notes on Psalm 81:1 - ## Psalm 81:2 - [KJV] Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. - [ASV] Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery. - [YLT] Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with psaltery. ### Notes on Psalm 81:2 - ## Psalm 81:3 - [KJV] Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. - [ASV] Blow the trumpet at the new moon, At the full moon, on our feast-day. - [YLT] Blow in the month a trumpet, In the new moon, at the day of our festival, ### Notes on Psalm 81:3 - ## Psalm 81:4 - [KJV] For this *was* a statute for Israel, *and* a law of the God of Jacob. - [ASV] For it is a statute for Israel, An ordinance of the God of Jacob. - [YLT] For a statute to Israel it *is*, An ordinance of the God of Jacob. ### Notes on Psalm 81:4 - ## Psalm 81:5 - [KJV] This 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. - [ASV] He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, When he went out over the land of Egypt, *Where* I heard a language that I knew not. - [YLT] A testimony on Joseph He hath placed it, In his going forth over the land of Egypt. A lip, I have not known -- I hear. ### Notes on Psalm 81:5 - ## Psalm 81:6 - [KJV] I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots. - [ASV] I removed his shoulder from the burden: His hands were freed from the basket. - [YLT] From the burden his shoulder I turned aside, His hands from the basket pass over. ### Notes on Psalm 81:6 - ## Psalm 81:7 - [KJV] Thou 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. - [ASV] Thou 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* - [YLT] In distress thou hast called and I deliver thee, I answer thee in the secret place of thunder, I try thee by the waters of Meribah. Selah. ### Notes on Psalm 81:7 - ## Psalm 81:8 - [KJV] Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; - [ASV] Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me! - [YLT] Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me: ### Notes on Psalm 81:8 - ## Psalm 81:9 - [KJV] There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. - [ASV] There shall no strange god be in thee; Neither shalt thou worship any foreign god. - [YLT] There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god. ### Notes on Psalm 81:9 - ## Psalm 81:10 - [KJV] I *am* the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. - [ASV] I am Jehovah thy God, Who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. - [YLT] I *am* Jehovah thy God, Who bringeth thee up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge thy mouth, and I fill it. ### Notes on Psalm 81:10 - ## Psalm 81:11 - [KJV] But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. - [ASV] But my people hearkened not to my voice; And Israel would none of me. - [YLT] But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me. ### Notes on Psalm 81:11 - ## Psalm 81:12 - [KJV] So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: *and* they walked in their own counsels. - [ASV] So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels. - [YLT] And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels. ### Notes on Psalm 81:12 - ## Psalm 81:13 - [KJV] Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, *and* Israel had walked in my ways! - [ASV] Oh that my people would hearken unto me, That Israel would walk in my ways! - [YLT] O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk. ### Notes on Psalm 81:13 - ## Psalm 81:14 - [KJV] I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. - [ASV] I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries. - [YLT] As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand, ### Notes on Psalm 81:14 - ## Psalm 81:15 - [KJV] The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. - [ASV] The haters of Jehovah should submit themselves unto him: But their time should endure for ever. - [YLT] Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is -- to the age. ### Notes on Psalm 81:15 - ## Psalm 81:16 - [KJV] He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. - [ASV] He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat; And with honey out of the rock would I satisfy thee. - [YLT] He causeth him to eat of the fat of wheat, And *with* honey from a rock I satisfy thee! ### Notes on Psalm 81:16 -