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                       Sing Songs of Praise to Him!
                               Psalm 81


1.   Praise the Eternal with a psalm; sing songs of praise to Him! Play on the
     timbrel and the harp, and make a joyful noise! This is a statute and a law
     God has ordained for us, In the appointed time to keep; this do on God's
     most solemn feast!

2.   Blow on the trumpet; sing a psalm; make joyful noise to God! He has
     delivered us from sin, saved us from Egypt's land! We cried to God in
     bondage there; God heard and answered us; From thunderclouds He
     answered us: "Hear, O My people, hear My words!"

3.   But His own people would not hear; they would not hear His voice; They
     only wanted their own way, following their own hearts. "O that My people
     would obey, walking in all My ways! I should have soon delivered them,
     turned My hand against their foes!"