Oh, That My People Would Listen to Me
Tehillim / Psalms 81:1 Shout for joy to Elohim our strength; Raise a shout to the Elohim of Yaʽaqoḇ.
Psa 81:2 Lift up a song and beat the tambourine, The pleasant lyre and with the harp.
Psa 81:3 Blow the ram’s horn at the time of the New Moon, At the full moon, on our festival day.
Psa 81:4 For this is a law for Yisra’ĕl, And a right-ruling of the Elohim of Yaʽaqoḇ.
Psa 81:5 He appointed it in Yehosĕph for a witness, When He went throughout the land of Mitsrayim; I heard a language that I did not know.
Psa 81:6 He says, “I removed his shoulder from the burden; His hands were freed from the baskets.
Psa 81:7 “You called in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you in the covering of thunder; I proved you at the waters of Meriḇah. Selah.
Psa 81:8 “Hear, O My people, and let Me warn you, O Yisra’ĕl, if you would listen to Me!
Psa 81:9 “Let there be no strange mighty one among you, And do not bow down to a foreign mighty one.
Psa 81:10 “I am יהוה your Elohim, Who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim; Open your mouth wide, and I fill it.
Psa 81:11 “But My people did not listen to My voice, And Yisra’ĕl would not submit to Me.
Psa 81:12 “So I gave them over to their own stubborn heart, To walk in their own counsels.
Psa 81:13 “O, if My people had listened to Me, Yisra’ĕl would walk in My ways,
Psa 81:14 “I would subdue their enemies at once, And turn My hand against their adversaries!