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Psalms 81

16 aligned verses; 16 with wording or punctuation differences .

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Verse YLT Young's Literal Translation KJV King James Version
To the Overseer. -- `On the Gittith.' By Asaph. Cry aloud to God our strength , Shout to the God of Jacob.
Sing aloud unto God our strength : make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
Lift up a song , and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with psaltery.
Take a psalm , and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
Blow in the month a trumpet , In the new moon, at the day of our festival ,
Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed , on our solemn feast day.
For a statute to Israel it `is' , An ordinance of the God of Jacob.
For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
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 .
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.
From the burden his shoulder I turned aside, His hands from the basket pass over .
I removed his shoulder from the burden : his hands were delivered from the pots .
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.
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.
Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee , O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me :
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee : O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me ;
There is not in thee a strange god , And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god.
There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
I ` am ' Jehovah thy God, Who bringeth thee up out of the land of Egypt . Enlarge thy mouth, and I fill it.
I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt : open thy mouth wide , and I will fill it.
But , My people hearkened not to My voice , And Israel hath not consented to Me.
But my people would not hearken to my voice ; and Israel would none of me.
And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways !
As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow , And against their adversaries I turn back My hand,
I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries .
Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him , But their time is -- to the age .
The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him : but their time should have endured for ever .
He causeth him to eat of the fat of wheat , And ` with ' honey from a rock I satisfy thee !
He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat : and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee .

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