---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Psalms from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 81
verse_count: 16
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Psalms, chap. 81, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Psalms 81

*An exhortation to praise God God exhorteth to obedience. To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph.*

**1** Sing aloud unto God our strength; make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
**2** Take a psalm, and bring hither again, O Lord God of the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
**3** Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
**4** For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
**5** This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt; where I heard a language that I understood not.
**6** I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were delivered from the pots.
**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. Selah.
**8** Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
**9** There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
**10** I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt; open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
**11** But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
**12** So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust; and they walked in their own counsels.
**13** Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
**14** I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
**15** The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto him; but their time should have endured for ever.
**16** He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat; and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.