| asv | |
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| 1. | For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph. |
| 2. | Sing aloud unto God our strength: Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. |
| 3. | Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery. |
| 4. | Blow the trumpet at the new moon, At the full moon, on our feast-day. |
| 5. | For it is a statute for Israel, An ordinance of the God of Jacob. |
| 6. | 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. |
| 7. | I removed his shoulder from the burden: His hands were freed from the basket. |
| 8. | 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 |
| 9. | Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me! |
| 10. | There shall no strange god be in thee; Neither shalt thou worship any foreign god. |
| 11. | I am Jehovah thy God, Who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. |
| 12. | But my people hearkened not to my voice; And Israel would none of me. |
| 13. | So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels. |
| 14. | Oh that my people would hearken unto me, That Israel would walk in my ways! |
| 15. | I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries. |
| 16. | The haters of Jehovah should submit themselves unto him: But their time should endure for ever. |
| 17. | He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat; And with honey out of the rock would I satisfy thee. |