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1 Sing for joy to God, our strength; shout out loud to the God of Jacob.
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Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
2 Begin the music. Play the tambourines. Play pleasant music on the harps and lyres.
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Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp.
3 Blow the trumpet at the time of the New Moon, when the moon is full, when our feast begins.
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Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
4 This is the law for Israel; it is the command of the God of Jacob.
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For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob.
5 He gave this rule to the people of Joseph when they went out of the land of Egypt. I heard a language I did not know, saying:
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He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known:
6 "I took the load off their shoulders; I let them put down their baskets.
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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, and I saved you. I answered you with thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.Selah
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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 Meribah. Selah
8 My people, listen. I am warning you. Israel, please 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 not have foreign gods; you must not worship any false god.
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There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
10 I, the Lord, am 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 did not listen to me; Israel did not want me.
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“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me.
12 So I let them go their stubborn way and follow their own advice.
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So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
13 I wish my people would listen to me; I wish Israel would live my way.
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Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
14 Then I would quickly defeat their enemies and turn my hand against their foes.
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I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes.
15 Those who hate the Lord would bow before him. Their punishment would continue forever.
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Those who hate the Lord would cringe toward him, and their fate would last forever.
16 But I would give you the finest wheat and fill you with honey from the rocks." A psalm of Asaph.
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But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you. ”