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1.    To the Overseer. -- `On the Gittith.` By Asaph.
 
2.    Cry aloud to God our strength, Shout to the God of Jacob.
 
3.    Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with psaltery.
 
4.    Blow in the month a trumpet, In the new moon, at the day of our festival,
 
5.    For a statute to Israel it is, An ordinance of the God of Jacob.
 
6.    A testimony on Joseph He hath placed it, In his going forth over the land of Egypt. A lip, I have not known -- I hear.
 
7.    From the burden his shoulder I turned aside, His hands from the basket pass over.
 
8.    In distress thou hast called and I deliver thee, I answer thee in the secret place of thunder, I try thee by the waters of Meribah. Selah.
 
9.    Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me:
 
10.    There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god.
 
11.    I am Jehovah thy God, Who bringeth thee up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge thy mouth, and I fill it.
 
12.    But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me.
 
13.    And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.
 
14.    O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.
 
15.    As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand,
 
16.    Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is -- to the age.
 
17.    He causeth him to eat of the fat of wheat, And with honey from a rock I satisfy thee!