Ch 81 / 150~1 min
TehillimChapter 81
Oh That My People Would Listen to Me
Elohim's call — 'Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it' — is the generous invitation of Yeshua, who promises that those who hunger and thirst will be filled.
- Sing Aloud to Elohim Our Strength
Elohim calls His people to joyful worship with music and celebration. This was written for the feasts.
- 1Sing aloud to Elohim, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the Elohim of Jacob!
- 2Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.
- 3Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
- 4For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the Elohim of Jacob.
- 5He 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 freed from the basket.
- 7You 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.
- If Only My People Would Listen
Elohim's heart aches: 'If only My people would listen to Me!' His desire is to bless, not to judge.
- 8“Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!
- 9There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.
- 10I am YHWH, your Elohim, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
- 11But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
- 12So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
- 13Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
- 14I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
- 15The haters of YHWH would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.
- 16But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”