King James Version KJV
Good News Translation GNT
1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
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Shout for joy to God our defender; sing praise to the God of Jacob!
2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
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Start the music and beat the tambourines; play pleasant music on the harps and the lyres.
3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
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Blow the trumpet for the festival, when the moon is new and when the moon is full.
4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
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This is the law in Israel, an order from the God of Jacob.
5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
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He gave it to the people of Israel when he attacked the land of Egypt. I hear an unknown voice saying,
6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
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"I took the burdens off your backs; I let you put down your loads of bricks.
7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
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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.
8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
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Listen, my people, to my warning; Israel, how I wish you would listen to me!
9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
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You must never worship another god.
10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
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I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt. Open your mouth, and I will feed you.
11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
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"But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not obey me.
12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
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So I let them go their stubborn ways and do whatever they wanted.
13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
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How I wish my people would listen to me; how I wish they would obey me!
14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
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I would quickly defeat their enemies and conquer all their foes.
15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
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Those who hate me would bow in fear before me; their punishment would last forever.
16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
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But I would feed you with the finest wheat and satisfy you with wild honey."
The King James Version is in the public domain.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.