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| 1Sing joyfully to God, our strength. Raise a shout 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. |
| 2Sing a song and play the tambourine, the pleasant-sounding lyre along with the harp. | 2Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. |
| 3Blow the ram's horn when there is a New Moon, when there is a full moon, on our festival day, | 3Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. |
| 4because it is a statute in Israel, an ordinance by the God of Jacob, | 4For this was a statute for Israel, and a law 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. | 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 removed the burden from your shoulder; your hands were freed of the burdensome basket. | 6I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots. |
| 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 | 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 warn you. Israel, if only you would obey me! | 8Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; |
| 9You must neither have a foreign god over you or worship a strange god. | 9There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange 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 thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. |
| 11Yet my people didn't obey my voice; Israel didn't submit to me. | 11But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. |
| 12So I allowed them to continue in their stubbornness, living by their own advice. | 12So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels. |
| 13If only my people would obey me, if only Israel would walk in my ways! | 13Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! |
| 14Then I would quickly subdue their enemies. I would turn against their foes. | 14I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. |
| 15Those who hate the LORD will cringe before him; their punishment will be permanent. | 15The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. |
| 16But I will feed Israel with the finest wheat, satisfying 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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