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To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph.
1 Sing unto God who is our strength, and that with a loud voice: unto him that is Jacob’s God make ye a joyful noise. 2 Take up a psalm of melody, and bring the timbrel hither: the harp which sounds so pleasantly with psaltery together.
3 As in the time of the new moon with trumpet sound on high: in the appointed time and day of our solemnity. 4 Because that unto Israel this thing a statute was; and by the God of Jacob this did for a judgment pass.
5 This witness he in Joseph set when as through Egypt land he went: I there a language heard I did not understand. 6 I from the burden which he bare his shoulder did set free: his hands also were from the pots delivered by me.
7 Thou call’dst in straits, and I thee freed: in thunder’s secret way I answer’d thee, I prov’d thee at waters of Meribah. Selah. 8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if that thou wilt attention give to me.
9 Any strange god there shall not be in midst of thee at all: nor unto any foreign god thou bowing down shalt fall. 10 I am the Lord thy God who thee from land of Egypt led: thy mouth ope wide, and thou by me with plenty shalt be fed.
11 My people yet would not give ear unto the voice I spake: and Israel would not in me quiet contentment take. 12 So in the hardness of their heart I did them send away, in their own consultations likewise then walked they.
13 O that my people unto me obedient had been: and O that Israel he had walked my ways within. 14 I should within a little time have pulled down their foes: I should have turn’d my hand upon such as did them oppose.
15 The haters of the Lord to him obed’ence should have feign’d: but unto perpetuity their time should have remain’d. 16 And with the finest of the wheat have nourish’d them should he: with honey of the rock I should have satisfied thee.