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The Message Bible MSG
1 Rejoice out loud to God, our strength! Shout for joy to Jacob's God!
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A song to our strong God! a shout to the God of Jacob!
2 Take up a song and strike the drum! Sweet lyre along with harp!
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Anthems from the choir, music from the band, sweet sounds from lute and harp,
3 Blow the horn on the new moon, at the full moon, for our day of celebration!
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Trumpets and trombones and horns: it's festival day, a feast to God!
4 Because this is the law for Israel; this is a rule of Jacob's God.
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A day decreed by God, solemnly ordered by the God of Jacob.
5 He made it a decree for Joseph when he went out against the land of Egypt, when I heard a language I did not yet know:
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He commanded Joseph to keep this day so we'd never forget what he did in Egypt. I hear this most gentle whisper from One I never guessed would speak to me:
6 “I lifted the burden off your shoulders; your hands are free of the brick basket!
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"I took the world off your shoulders, freed you from a life of hard labor.
7 In distress you cried out, so I rescued you. I answered you in the secret of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
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You called to me in your pain; I got you out of a bad place. I answered you from where the thunder hides, I proved you at Meribah Fountain.
8 Listen, my people, I'm warning you! If only you would listen to me, Israel.
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"Listen, dear ones - get this straight; O Israel, don't take this lightly.
9 There must be no foreign god among you. You must not bow down to any strange deity.
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Don't take up with strange gods, don't worship the latest in gods.
10 I am the LORD your God, who brought you up from Egypt's land. Open your mouth wide—I will fill it up!
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I'm God, your God, the very God who rescued you from doom in Egypt, Then fed you all you could eat, filled your hungry stomachs.
11 But my people wouldn't listen to my voice. Israel simply wasn't agreeable toward me.
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"But my people didn't listen, Israel paid no attention;
12 So I sent them off to follow their willful hearts; they followed their own advice.
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So I let go of the reins and told them, 'Run! Do it your own way!'
13 How I wish my people would listen to me! How I wish Israel would walk in my ways!
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"Oh, dear people, will you listen to me now? Israel, will you follow my map?
14 Then I would subdue their enemies in a second; I would turn my hand against their foes.
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I'll make short work of your enemies, give your foes the back of my hand.
15 Those who hate the LORD would grovel before me, and their doom would last forever!
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I'll send the God-haters cringing like dogs, never to be heard from again.
16 But I would feed you with the finest wheat. I would satisfy you with honey from the rock.”
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You'll feast on my fresh-baked bread spread with butter and rock-pure honey."
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