[1] To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph. [2]
Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob! [3]
Raise a song, sound the timbrel, the sweet lyre with the harp. [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 made it a
decree in Joseph, when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a voice I
had not known: [7] "I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were
freed from the basket. [8] In distress you called, and I delivered you; I
answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of
Mer'ibah. [Selah] [9] Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if
you would but listen to me! [10] There shall be no strange god among you;
you shall not bow down to a foreign god. [11] I am the LORD your God, who
brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will
fill it. [12] "But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would have
none of me. [13] So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow
their own counsels. [14] O that my people would listen to me, that Israel
would walk in my ways! [15] I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my
hand against their foes. [16] Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward
him, and their fate would last for ever. [ (Psalms 81:17) I would feed you
with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy
you." ]