The Message Bible MSG
Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 A song to our strong God! a shout to the God of Jacob!
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To the Overseer. -- `On the Gittith.' By Asaph. Cry aloud to God our strength, Shout to the God of Jacob.
2 Anthems from the choir, music from the band, sweet sounds from lute and harp,
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Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with psaltery.
3 Trumpets and trombones and horns: it's festival day, a feast to God!
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Blow in the month a trumpet, In the new moon, at the day of our festival,
4 A day decreed by God, solemnly ordered by the God of Jacob.
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For a statute to Israel it [is], An ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5 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:
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A testimony on Joseph He hath placed it, In his going forth over the land of Egypt. A lip, I have not known -- I hear.
6 "I took the world off your shoulders, freed you from a life of hard labor.
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From the burden his shoulder I turned aside, His hands from the basket pass over.
7 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.
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In distress thou hast called and I deliver thee, I answer thee in the secret place of thunder, I try thee by the waters of Meribah. Selah.
8 "Listen, dear ones - get this straight; O Israel, don't take this lightly.
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Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me:
9 Don't take up with strange gods, don't worship the latest in gods.
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There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god.
10 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.
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I [am] Jehovah thy God, Who bringeth thee up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge thy mouth, and I fill it.
11 "But my people didn't listen, Israel paid no attention;
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But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me.
12 So I let go of the reins and told them, 'Run! Do it your own way!'
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And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.
13 "Oh, dear people, will you listen to me now? Israel, will you follow my map?
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O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.
14 I'll make short work of your enemies, give your foes the back of my hand.
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As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand,
15 I'll send the God-haters cringing like dogs, never to be heard from again.
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Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is -- to the age.
16 You'll feast on my fresh-baked bread spread with butter and rock-pure honey."
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He causeth him to eat of the fat of wheat, And [with] honey from a rock I satisfy thee!
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