Psalm 81:1
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1  To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith. Of Asaph.
2 Make a song to God our strength: make a glad cry to the God of Jacob.
3 Take up the melody, playing on an instrument of music, even on corded instruments.
4 Let the horn be sounded in the time of the new moon, at the full moon, on our holy feast-day:
5 For this is a rule for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
6 He gave it to Joseph as a witness, when he went out over the land of Egypt; then the words of a strange tongue were sounding in my ears.
7 I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets.