[1] Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob! [2] Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp. [3] Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day. [4] For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob. [5] He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know. [6] “I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket. [7] You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.” Selah. [8] “Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me! [9] There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god. [10] I am Yahweh, 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 didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me. [12] So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels. [13] Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! [14] I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries. [15] The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever. [16] But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”
