American Standard Version

Psalm 81:2-8 American Standard Version (ASV)

2. Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery.

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, Where I heard a language that I knew not.

6. I removed his shoulder from the burden: His hands were freed from the basket.

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.

8. Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!