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1 To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
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1 Sing for joy to God our strength; shout aloud to the God of Jacob!
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2 Raise a song, sound the timbrel, the sweet lyre with the harp.
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2 Begin the music, strike the tambourine, play the melodious harp and lyre.
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3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
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3 Sound the ram's horn at the New Moon, and when the moon is full, on the day of our Feast;
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4 For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
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4 this is a decree for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
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5 He made it a decree in Joseph, when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a voice I had not known:
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5 He established it as a statute for Joseph when he went out against Egypt, where we heard a language we did not understand.
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6 "I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.
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6 He says, "I removed the burden from their shoulders; their hands were set free from the basket.
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7 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]
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7 In your distress you called and I rescued you, I answered you out of a thundercloud; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. "Selah"
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8 Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
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8 "Hear, O my people, and I will warn you-- if you would but listen to me, O Israel!
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9 There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
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9 You shall have no foreign god among you; you shall not bow down to an alien god.
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10 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.
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10 I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.
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11 "But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would have none of me.
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11 "But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not submit to me.
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12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
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12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
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13 O that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
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13 "If my people would but listen to me, if Israel would follow my ways,
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14 I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their foes.
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14 how quickly would I subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes!
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15 Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last for ever.
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15 Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.
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16 I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."
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16 But you would be fed with the finest of wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."
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| Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Revised Standard Version - Holy Bible) |
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