The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 For the Leader. On the gittit. By Asaf: Sing for joy to God our strength! Shout to the God of Ya'akov!
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<To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith. Of Asaph.> Make a song to God our strength: make a glad cry to the God of Jacob.
2 Start the music! Beat the drum! Play the sweet lyre and the lute!
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Take up the melody, playing on an instrument of music, even on corded instruments.
3 Sound the shofar at Rosh-Hodesh and at full moon for the pilgrim feast,
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Let the horn be sounded in the time of the new moon, at the full moon, on our holy feast-day:
4 because this is a law for Isra'el, a ruling of the God of Ya'akov.
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For this is a rule for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
5 He placed it as a testimony in Y'hosef when he went out against the land of Egypt. I heard an unfamiliar voice say,
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He gave it to Joseph as a witness, when he went out over the land of Egypt; then the words of a strange tongue were sounding in my ears.
6 "I lifted the load from his shoulder; his hands were freed from the [laborer's] basket.
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I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets.
7 You called out when you were in trouble, and I rescued you; I answered you from the thundercloud; I tested you at the M'rivah Spring [by saying,] (Selah)
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You gave a cry in your trouble, and I made you free; I gave you an answer in the secret place of the thunder; I put you to the test at the waters of Meribah. (Selah.)
8 "'Hear, my people, while I give you warning! Isra'el, if you would only listen to me!
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Give ear, O my people, and I will give you my word, O Israel, if you will only do as I say!
9 There is not to be with you any foreign god; you are not to worship an alien god.
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There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.
10 I am ADONAI your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt. Open your mouth, and I will fill it.'
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I am the Lord your God, who took you up from the land of Egypt: let your mouth be open wide, so that I may give you food.
11 "But my people did not listen to my voice; Isra'el would have none of me.
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But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me.
12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to live by their own plans.
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So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.
13 How I wish my people would listen to me, that Isra'el would live by my ways!
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If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways!
14 I would quickly subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes.
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I would quickly overcome their haters: my hand would be turned against those who make war on them.
15 Those who hate ADONAI would cringe before him, while [Isra'el's] time would last forever.
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The haters of the Lord would be broken, and their destruction would be eternal.
16 They would be fed with the finest wheat, and I would satisfy you with honey from the rocks."
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I would give them the best grain for food; you would be full of honey from the rock.