English Standard Version

Psalm 81:1-6 English Standard Version (ESV)

1. Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!

2. Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet 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,a rule of the God of Jacob.

5. He made it a decree in Josephwhen he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known:

6. “I relieved your shoulder of the burden;your hands were freed from the basket.