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| 1. | {For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph.} Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob! | To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith. Of Asaph. | Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. | ||
| 2. | Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp. | Make a song to God our strength: make a glad cry to the God of Jacob. | Take a psalm, 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. | Take up the melody, playing on an instrument of music, even on corded instruments. | Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. | ||
| 4. | For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob. | Let the horn be sounded in the time of the new moon, at the full moon, on our holy feast-day: | For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. | ||
| 5. | He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn't know. | For this is a rule for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. | 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 freed from the basket. | He gave it to Joseph as a witness, when he went out over the land of Egypt; then the words of a strange tongue were sounding in my ears. | I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots. | ||
| 7. | You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah." Selah. | I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets. | 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, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me! | You gave a cry in your trouble, and I made you free; I gave you an answer in the secret place of the thunder; I put you to the test at the waters of Meribah. (Selah.) | 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 in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god. | Give ear, O my people, and I will give you my word, O Israel, if you will only do as I say! | There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. | ||
| 10. | I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. | There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god. | I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. | ||
| 11. | But my people didn't listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me. | I am the Lord your God, who took you up from the land of Egypt: let your mouth be open wide, so that I may give you food. | But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. | ||
| 12. | So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels. | But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me. | So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels. | ||
| 13. | Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! | So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes. | Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! | ||
| 14. | I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries. | If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways! | I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. | ||
| 15. | The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever. | I would quickly overcome their haters: my hand would be turned against those who make war on them. | The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. | ||
| 16. | But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock." | The haters of the Lord would be broken, and their destruction would be eternal. | He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. | ||