1 | Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob! |
2 | Raise a song, sound the timbrel, the sweet 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 made it a decree in Joseph, when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a voice I had not known: |
6 | "I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket. |
7 | In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Mer'ibah. [Selah] |
8 | Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me! |
9 | There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god. |
10 | I am the LORD 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 did not listen to my voice; Israel would have none of me. |
12 | So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels. |
13 | O 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 foes. |
15 | Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last for ever. |
16 | I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you." |