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1.    {To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. A Psalm of  Asaph.}
 
2.    Sing ye joyously unto God our strength, shout aloud  unto the God of Jacob;
 
3.    Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with  the lute.
 
4.    Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the set time, on our  feast day:
 
5.    For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God  of Jacob;
 
6.    He ordained it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went  forth 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, my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if  thou wouldest hearken unto me!
 
10.    There shall no strange łgod be in thee, neither shalt thou  worship any foreign łgod.
 
11.    I am Jehovah thy God, that 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 gave them up unto their own hearts` stubbornness:  they walked after their own counsels.
 
14.    Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had  walked in my ways!
 
15.    I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my  hand against their adversaries.
 
16.    The haters of Jehovah would have come cringing unto him;  but their time would have been for ever.
 
17.    And he would have fed them with the finest of wheat; yea,  with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied thee.