Psalms
81 from Scroll 4Q87 Psalmse
1 Sing
aloud
to God, our strength!
Make
a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!
2 Raise
a song, and bring here the tambourine,
the
pleasant lyre with the harp.
Psalms
81 from Scroll 11Q8 Psalmsd
3 Blow
the trumpet at the New Moon,
at
the full moon, on
our feast day.
4 For
it is a statute for Israel,
an
ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5 He
appointed it in Joseph for a covenant,
when
he went out over the land of Egypt,
I
heard a language that I didn’t know.
6 “I
removed his shoulder from the burden.
His
hands were hand was freed from
the basket.
7 You
called in trouble, and I delivered you.
I answered you in the secret place of thunder.
I
tested you at the waters of Meribah.”
Selah.
8 “Hear, my people, and I
will testify to you,
Israel,
if you would listen to me!
Psalms
81 from Scroll Masada Psalmsa
1 Sing
aloud to God, our strength!
Make
a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!
2 Raise
a song, and bring here the tambourine,
the
pleasant lyre with the harp.
3 Blow
the trumpet at the New Moon,
at
the full moon, on our feast day.
4 For
it is a statute for Israel,
an
ordinance of the God of
Jacob.
5 He
appointed it in Joseph for a testimony,
when
he went out over the land of Egypt,
I
heard a language that I didn’t know.
6 “I
removed his
shoulder from the burden.
His
hands were freed from the basket.
7 You called in trouble, and I
delivered you.
I
answered you in the secret place of thunder.
I tested you at the waters of Meribah.”
Selah.
8 “Hear,
my people, and I will testify to you,
Israel,
if you would listen to me!
9 There
shall be no strange god in you,
neither
shall
you worship any foreign god.
10 I
am Yahweh, your God,
who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Open
your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 But my people didn’t
listen to my voice.
Israel
desired none of me.
12 So I
let them go
after the stubbornness of their hearts,
that
they might walk in their own counsels.
13 Oh
that my
people would listen to me,
that
Israel would walk in my ways!
14 I would soon subdue
their enemies,
and
turn my hand against their adversaries.
15 The
haters of
Yahweh would cringe before him,
and
their punishment
would last forever.
16 But he would have
also fed them with the finest of the wheat.
I
will satisfy you
with honey out of the rock.”