[1] Sing aloud unto God our strength: Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. [2] Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery. [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 testimony, When he went out over the land of Egypt, Where I heard a language that I knew not. [6] I removed his shoulder from the burden: His hands were freed from the basket. [7] 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 [8] Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me! [9] There shall no strange god be in thee; Neither shalt thou worship any foreign god. [10] I am Jehovah thy God, Who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. [11] But my people hearkened not to my voice; And Israel would none of me. [12] So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels. [13] Oh that my people would hearken unto 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 Jehovah should submit themselves unto him: But their time should endure for ever. [16] He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat; And with honey out of the rock would I satisfy thee.
