Good News Translation GNT
Revised Standard Version RSV
1 Shout for joy to God our defender; sing praise to the God of Jacob!
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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!
2 Start the music and beat the tambourines; play pleasant music on the harps and the lyres.
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Raise a song, sound the timbrel, the sweet lyre with the harp.
3 Blow the trumpet for the festival, when the moon is new and when the moon is full.
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Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
4 This is the law in Israel, an order from the God of Jacob.
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For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5 He gave it to the people of Israel when he attacked the land of Egypt. I hear an unknown voice saying,
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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:
6 "I took the burdens off your backs; I let you put down your loads of bricks.
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"I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.
7 When you were in trouble, you called to me, and I saved you. From my hiding place in the storm, I answered you. I put you to the test at the springs of Meribah.
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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]
8 Listen, my people, to my warning; Israel, how I wish you would listen to me!
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Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
9 You must never worship another god.
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There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
10 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt. Open your mouth, and I will feed you.
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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.
11 "But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not obey me.
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"But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would have none of me.
12 So I let them go their stubborn ways and do whatever they wanted.
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So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
13 How I wish my people would listen to me; how I wish they would obey me!
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O that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
14 I would quickly defeat their enemies and conquer all their foes.
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I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their foes.
15 Those who hate me would bow in fear before me; their punishment would last forever.
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Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last for ever.
16 But I would feed you with the finest wheat and satisfy you with wild honey."
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I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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.