| Holman Christian Standard Bible | King James Bible |
| 1For the choir director: on the Gittith. Of Asaph. Sing for joy to God our strength; shout in triumph to the God of Jacob. | 1To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. |
| 2Lift up a song--play the tambourine, the melodious lyre, and the harp. | 2Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. |
| 3Blow the horn on the day of our feasts during the new moon and during the full moon. | 3Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. |
| 4For this is a statute for Israel, a judgment of the God of Jacob. | 4For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. |
| 5He set it up as an ordinance for Joseph when He went throughout the land of Egypt. I heard an unfamiliar language:" | 5This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not. |
| 6I relieved his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from carrying the basket. | 6I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots. |
| 7You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the thundercloud. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah | 7Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah. |
| 8Listen, My people, and I will admonish you. Israel, if you would only listen to Me! | 8Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; |
| 9There must not be a strange god among you; you must not bow down to a foreign god. | 9There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. |
| 10I am Yahweh your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it." | 10I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. |
| 11But My people did not listen to Me; Israel did not obey Me. | 11But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. |
| 12So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own plans. | 12So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels. |
| 13If only My people would listen to Me and Israel would follow My ways, | 13Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! |
| 14I would quickly subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their foes." | 14I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. |
| 15Those who hate the LORD would pretend submission to Him; their doom would last forever. | 15The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. |
| 16But He would feed Israel with the best wheat." I would satisfy you with honey from the rock." | 16He 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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