Psalm 81 Free Bible Version
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Notes on this text (1)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
1 For the music director. On the gittith. A psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob.
1 Al Músico principal: sobre Gittith: Salmo de Asaph. CANTAD á Dios, fortaleza nuestra: al Dios de Jacob celebrad con júbilo.
2 Start the song! Play the tambourine, sweet-sounding lyre, and harp.
2 Tomad la canción, y tañed el adufe, el arpa deliciosa con el salterio.
3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, and at full moon, to begin our festivals,
3 Tocad la trompeta en la nueva luna, en el día señalado, en el día de nuestra solemnidad.
4 for this is a rule for Israel, a regulation of the God of Jacob.
4 Porque estatuto es de Israel, ordenanza del Dios de Jacob.
5 God made this statute for Joseph when he opposed the land of Egypt. I heard a voice I didn't know, saying:
5 Por testimonio en José lo ha constituído, cuando salió por la tierra de Egipto; [donde] oí lenguaje que no entendía.
6 “I took the load from your shoulders; I freed your hands from carrying heavy baskets.
6 Aparté su hombro de debajo de la carga; sus manos se quitaron de vasijas de barro.
7 In your suffering you cried out to me, and I saved you. I answered you from the thundercloud. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
7 En la calamidad clamaste, y yo te libré: te respondí en el secreto del trueno; te probé sobre las aguas de Meriba. (Selah.)
8 My people, listen to my warnings! Israel, please listen to me!
8 Oye, pueblo mío, y te protestaré. Israel, si me oyeres,
9 There must not be a strange god among you; you must never bow down to foreign gods and worship them.
9 No habrá en ti dios ajeno, ni te encorvarás á dios extraño.
10 I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.
10 Yo soy Jehová tu Dios, que te hice subir de la tierra de Egipto: ensancha tu boca, y henchirla he.
11 But my people didn't listen to me. Israel didn't want anything to do with me.
11 Mas mi pueblo no oyó mi voz, é Israel no me quiso á mí.
12 So I sent them away to follow their stubborn thinking, living as they chose.
12 Dejélos por tanto á la dureza de su corazón: caminaron en sus consejos.
13 If only my people would listen to me; if only Israel would follow my ways!
13 ¡Oh, si me hubiera oído mi pueblo, si en mis caminos hubiera Israel andado!
14 It wouldn't take me long to conquer their enemies, to strike down their foes.
14 En una nada habría yo derribado sus enemigos, y vuelto mi mano sobre sus adversarios.
15 Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him, forever doomed.
15 Los aborrecedores de Jehová se le hubieran sometido; y el tiempo de ellos fuera para siempre.
16 But I would feed you the best wheat and satisfy you with honey from the rock.”
16 [Y Dios] lo hubiera mantenido de grosura de trigo: y de miel de la piedra te hubiera saciado.
Cross references (15)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 31:7; Psalm 66:1; Psalm 100:1–2; Philippians 4:13; Psalm 8:1
- 2 Psalm 149:1–3; Colossians 3:16; Psalm 92:3; Exodus 15:20; Ephesians 5:19
- 3 Leviticus 23:24–25; Numbers 15:3; 2 Chronicles 2:4; Numbers 10:1–10; Deuteronomy 16:15
- 5 Jeremiah 5:15; Deuteronomy 28:49; Psalm 114:1; 1 Corinthians 14:21–22; Isaiah 28:11
- 6 Isaiah 9:4; Isaiah 10:27; Exodus 6:6; Matthew 11:29; Exodus 1:14
- 7 Exodus 19:19; Numbers 20:13; Exodus 2:23; Psalm 50:15; Exodus 14:10
- 8 Psalm 50:7; Exodus 15:26; John 3:11; Isaiah 1:19; Isaiah 55:3–4
- 9 Isaiah 43:12; Deuteronomy 32:12; 1 Corinthians 8:5–6; Malachi 2:11; Deuteronomy 6:14
- 10 John 15:7; Exodus 20:2; Psalm 107:9; John 7:37; Revelation 21:6
- 11 Jeremiah 7:23–24; Deuteronomy 32:18; Jeremiah 2:11–13; Exodus 32:1; Zechariah 7:11
- 12 Jeremiah 7:24; Romans 1:24; Isaiah 30:1; Acts 7:42; 2 Thessalonians 2:9–11
- 13 Deuteronomy 5:29; Isaiah 48:18; Deuteronomy 10:12–13; Luke 19:41–42; Matthew 23:37
- 14 Judges 2:20–23; Amos 1:8; Joshua 23:13; Numbers 14:9; Psalm 47:3
- 15 Deuteronomy 7:10; Psalm 63:3; Romans 8:7; Romans 1:30; Joel 3:20
- 16 Deuteronomy 32:13–14; Psalm 147:14; 1 Samuel 14:25–26; Joel 2:24; Judges 14:18
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
If perchance things obscure demand the office of an interpreter, those things which are evident ought to require of me the office of a reader. The song here is of the Advent of the Lord and of our Saviour Jesus Christ, and of His vineyard.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)