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CHAPTER 81
Israel commanded to sing praises to the Lord—If Israel had walked in the Lord's way they would have triumphed over their enemies. |
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1 SING aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. 3 Blow up the atrumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. |
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4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
5 This he ordained in Josepha for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a alanguage that I understood not.
 That the Hymns of the Messiah be sung after to his name. |
5a This he ordained in Joseph As in Joseph was Israel delived in the time of famine unto their physical salvation by the hand of the Lord through Joseph, the heir of the right of the firstborn in Israel that praises to the Lord for such deliverance ought to be sung both in remembrance of that day when through Joseph Israel was delivered, and as Moses was the adopted son of the daughter of Pharoah of the house of Joseph(JST Genesis 50:29) so Moses was of the seed and promise through Joseph for the deliverance of the exodus from Egypt; and as also a foreshadowing that again there was a spiritual deliverance also to be found in the seed of Joseph, both in the Savior as Messiah ben Joseph (see: Messiah ben David ~ Messiah ben Joseph) as also through the promise through Joseph's seed unto the latter day restoration of the gospel via that latter day prophet descended from Joseph, Joseph Smith, and those of the remnant of Ephraim as assisted by those of the remnant of Manasseh in preparation for the Second Coming of the Lord. And thus are the praises sung unto the Lord in remembrance and in foreshadowing of his great works which he has done for us. And all this was done in the covenant of the Firstborn, the rights thereof, which had been ordained upon, in and through Joseph by whom the promises remained (D&C 27:10). This then is the whole of the anointing or blessing of Joseph by Jacob as recorded in Genesis 49:22-26, from the physical salvation and deliverance to the spiritual restoration, Second Coming and Judgment; it all pertains to the promises of the fathers which were preserved and remained in and through Joseph. | |
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6 I removed his shoulder from the
aburden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
7 Thou calledst in atrouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret bplace of thunder: I cproved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah. |
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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. |
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11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
12 So I agave them up unto their own hearts' blust: and they walked in their own counsels. 13 Oh that my people had ahearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! |
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14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
15 The haters of the LORD should have asubmitted 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. |
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