To the chief Musician upon
Gittith,
A Psalm of Asaph.
Sing aloud
unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto
the God of Jacob.
02 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel,
the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
03 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the
time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
04 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law
of the God of Jacob.
05 This 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.
06 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his
hands were delivered from the pots.
07 Thou 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.
08 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto
thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
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09 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither
shalt thou worship any strange god.
10 I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out
of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I
will fill it.
11 But my people would not hearken to my voice;
and Israel would none of me.
12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust:
and they walked in their own counsels.
13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and
Israel had walked in my ways!
14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and
turned my hand against their adversaries.
15 The haters of the Lord should have submitted
themselves unto him: but their time should have
endured for ever.
16 He 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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