To the chief musician, on Gittith. A psalm of Asaph
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📚✭✭Sing aloud to God our strength! Make a joyful sound to the
God of Jacob!
2 📚Take up a psalm, and assign
the tambourine,
the pleasant harp with the lyre.
3 📚Blow the trumpet in the
new moon at the set time,
on our solemn feast day.
4 For this is a statute
for Israel,
and a law of the God
of Jacob.
5 📚✭He ordained this in Joseph
for a testimony,
when he went throughout
the land of Egypt,
where I heard a language
that I did
not understand.
6 📚✭God says “I removed
the burden from his
shoulder.
His hands were freed
from the baskets.
7 📚You called out in trouble,
and I rescued you.
I answered you in the secret place
of thunder.
I tested you at the waters
of Meribah. Selah
8 📚✭Hear, O my people,
and I will testify to you.
O Israel, if only you would
listen to me!
9 📚You must have no foreign
god among you,
nor worship any alien god.
10 📚✭I am the LORD
your God who brought you
out of the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide,
and I will fill it.
11 📚✭But my people would not listen
to my voice,
and Israel would have none
of me.
12 📚✭So I gave them up to their
own hearts’ desire;
and they walked in their
own counsels.
13 📚✭Oh, that my people had listened
to me,
and Israel had walked
in my ways!
14 📚I would soon have subdued
their enemies,
and turned my hand against their
adversaries.
15 📚The haters of the LORD would have
submitted themselves to him,
and their time would have gone
on forever.
16 📚He would also have fed them
with the finest of the wheat,
and with honey out of the rock
I would have satisfied you”.