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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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Raise a song, sound the timbrel, the sweet lyre with the harp.
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Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
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For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
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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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"I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.
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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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Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
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There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
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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.