| International Standard Version | English Standard Version |
| 1Sing joyfully to God, our strength. Raise a shout to the God of Jacob. | 1Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob! |
| 2Sing a song and play the tambourine, the pleasant-sounding lyre along with the harp. | 2Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp. |
| 3Blow the ram's horn when there is a New Moon, when there is a full moon, on our festival day, | 3Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day. |
| 4because it is a statute in Israel, an ordinance by the God of Jacob, | 4For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob. |
| 5a decree that he prescribed for Joseph when he went throughout the land of Egypt, speaking a language I did not recognize. | 5He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known: |
| 6I removed the burden from your shoulder; your hands were freed of the burdensome basket. | 6“I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket. |
| 7In a time of need you called out and I delivered you; I answered you from the dark thundercloud; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Interlude | 7In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah |
| 8Listen, My people and I will warn you. Israel, if only you would obey me! | 8Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me! |
| 9You must neither have a foreign god over you or worship a strange god. | 9There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god. |
| 10I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, open your mouth that I may fill it. | 10I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. |
| 11Yet my people didn't obey my voice; Israel didn't submit to me. | 11“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me. |
| 12So I allowed them to continue in their stubbornness, living by their own advice. | 12So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels. |
| 13If only my people would obey me, if only Israel would walk in my ways! | 13Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! |
| 14Then I would quickly subdue their enemies. I would turn against their foes. | 14I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes. |
| 15Those who hate the LORD will cringe before him; their punishment will be permanent. | 15Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last forever. |
| 16But I will feed Israel with the finest wheat, satisfying you with honey from the rock. | 16But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.” |
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