- 1. <For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph.><br>
Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob! - 2. Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.
- 3. Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
- 4. For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
- 5. He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn't know.
- 6. "I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.
- 7. You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah." Selah.
- 8. "Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!
- 9. There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.
- 10. I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
- 11. But my people didn't listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
- 12. So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
- 13. Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
- 14. I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
- 15. The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.
- 16. But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock."
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