| New International Version | English Standard Version |
| 1For the director of music. According to gittith. Of Asaph. Sing for joy to God our strength; shout aloud to the God of Jacob! | 1Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob! |
| 2Begin the music, strike the timbrel, play the melodious harp and lyre. | 2Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp. |
| 3Sound the ram's horn at the New Moon, and when the moon is full, on the day of our festival; | 3Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day. |
| 4this is a decree for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob. | 4For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob. |
| 5When God went out against Egypt, he established it as a statute for Joseph. I heard an unknown voice say: | 5He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known: |
| 6"I removed the burden from their shoulders; their hands were set free from the basket. | 6“I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket. |
| 7In your distress you called and I rescued you, I answered you out of a thundercloud; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. | 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 |
| 8Hear me, my people, and I will warn you-- if you would only listen to me, Israel! | 8Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me! |
| 9You shall have no foreign god among you; you shall not worship any god other than me. | 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 up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will 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. |
| 11"But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not submit to me. | 11“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me. |
| 12So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. | 12So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels. |
| 13"If my people would only listen to me, if Israel would only follow my ways, | 13Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! |
| 14how quickly I would subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes! | 14I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes. |
| 15Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever. | 15Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last forever. |
| 16But you would be fed with the finest of wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you." | 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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