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1 Sing for joy to God our strength; shout aloud to the God of Jacob!
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Sing aloud unto God our strength: Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2 Begin the music, strike the timbrel, play the melodious harp and lyre.
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Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3 Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and when the moon is full, on the day of our festival;
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Blow the trumpet at the new moon, At the full moon, on our feast-day.
4 this is a decree for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
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For it is a statute for Israel, An ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5 When God went out against Egypt, he established it as a statute for Joseph. I heard an unknown voice say:
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He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, When he went out over the land of Egypt, [Where] I heard a language that I knew not.
6 “I removed the burden from their shoulders; their hands were set free from the basket.
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I removed his shoulder from the burden: His hands were freed from the basket.
7 In your distress you called and I rescued you, I answered you out of a thundercloud; I tested you at the waters of Meribah.
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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
8 Hear me, my people, and I will warn you— if you would only listen to me, Israel!
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Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!
9 You shall have no foreign god among you; you shall not worship any god other than me.
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There shall no strange god be in thee; Neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.
10 I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.
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I am Jehovah thy God, Who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 “But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not submit to me.
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But my people hearkened not to my voice; And Israel would none of me.
12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
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So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.
13 “If my people would only listen to me, if Israel would only follow my ways,
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Oh that my people would hearken unto me, That Israel would walk in my ways!
14 how quickly I would subdue 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 adversaries.
15 Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.
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The haters of Jehovah should submit themselves unto him: But their time should endure for ever.
16 But you would be fed with the finest of wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
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He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat; And with honey out of the rock would I satisfy thee.
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