[1] Sing aloud unto God our strength; make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. [2] Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. [3] Blow the trumpet in the new moon, at the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. [4] For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. [5] This He ordained in Joseph as a testimony, when He went out through the land of Egypt, where I heard a language that I understood not: [6] "I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were delivered from the pots. [7] Thou called in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder. I tested thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah [8] Hear, O My people, and I will testify unto thee, O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto Me! [9] There shall be no strange god among thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. [10] I am the LORD thy God, who 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 have 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 and 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."
