Oh, That My People Would Listen To Me

Psalms 81
Oh, That My People Would Listen To Me
To The Chief Musician, Upon Gittith, A Song of Asaph

Audio Reading • Kings James Version

Psalms 81
King James Version

1 Sing aloud unto God our strength:

make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel,

the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon,

in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

4 For this was a statute for Israel,

and a law of the God of Jacob.

5 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.

6 I removed his shoulder from the burden:

his hands were delivered from the pots.

7 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.

8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee:

O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;

9 There shall no strange god be in thee;

neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

10 I am the Lord thy God,

which brought thee out of the land of Egypt:
open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

11 But my people would not hearken to my voice;

and Israel would none of me.

12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust:

and they walked in their own counsels.

13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me,

and Israel had walked in my ways!

14 I should soon have subdued their enemies,

and turned my hand against their adversaries.

15 The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto him:

but their time should have endured for ever.

16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat:

and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.

An Appeal For Israel’s Repentance

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