King James Version KJV
New Living Translation NLT
1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
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Sing praises to God, our strength. Sing to the God of Jacob.
2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
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Sing! Beat the tambourine. Play the sweet lyre and the harp.
3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
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Blow the ram’s horn at new moon, and again at full moon to call a festival!
4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
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For this is required by the decrees of Israel; it is a regulation of 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 made it a law for Israel when he attacked Egypt to set us free. I heard an unknown voice say,
6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
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“Now I will take the load from your shoulders; I will free your hands from their heavy tasks.
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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You cried to me in trouble, and I saved you; I answered out of the thundercloud and tested your faith when there was no water at Meribah. Interlude
8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
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“Listen to me, O my people, while I give you stern warnings. O Israel, if you would only 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 have a foreign god; you must not bow down before a false 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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For it was I, the LORD your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it with good things.
11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
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“But no, my people wouldn’t listen. Israel did not want me around.
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 follow their own stubborn desires, living according to their own ideas.
13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
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Oh, that my people would listen to me! Oh, that Israel would follow me, walking in my paths!
14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
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How quickly I would then subdue their enemies! How soon my hands would be upon 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 the LORD would cringe before him; they would be doomed 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. I would satisfy you with wild honey from the rock.”
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