Sing for Joy to God Our Strength

1Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm of Asaph himself. Exult before God our helper. Sing joyfully to the God of Jacob.

2Take up a psalm, and bring forth the timbrel: a pleasing Psalter with stringed instruments.

3Sound the trumpet at the new moon, on the noteworthy day of your solemnity,

4for it is a precept in Israel and a judgment for the God of Jacob.

5He set it as a testimony with Joseph, when he went out of the land of Egypt. He heard a tongue that he did not know.

6He turned the burdens away from his back. His hands had been a slave to baskets.

7You called upon me in tribulation, and I freed you. I heard you within the hidden tempest. I tested you with waters of contradiction.

8My people, listen and I will call you to testify. If, O Israel, you will pay heed to me,

9then there will be no new god among you, nor will you adore a foreign god.

10For I am the Lord your God, who led you out of the land of Egypt. Widen your mouth, and I will fill it.

11But my people did not hear my voice, and Israel was not attentive to me.

12And so, I sent them away, according to the desires of their heart. They will go forth according to their own inventions.

13If my people had heard me, if Israel had walked in my ways,

14I would have humbled their enemies, as if it were nothing, and I would have sent my hand upon those who troubled them.

15The enemies of the Lord have lied to him, and their time will come, in every age.

16And he fed them from the fat of the grain, and he saturated them with honey from the rock.