1: To the chief Musician upon Gittith, [A Psalm] of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength: make a joyful noise to 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, in 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 [for] 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 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 to thee; O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me; 9: There shall no strange god be in 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 not obey me. 12: So I gave them up to their own hearts lust: [and] they walked in their own counsels. 13: O that my people had hearkened to 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 to him: and their time should have endured for ever. 16: He would have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock I should have satisfied thee.
