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1 Sing for joy to God our strength; shout aloud to the God of Jacob!
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<To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith. Of Asaph.> Make a song to God our strength: make a glad cry to the God of Jacob.
2 Begin the music, strike the timbrel, play the melodious harp and lyre.
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Take up the melody, playing on an instrument of music, even on corded instruments.
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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Let the horn be sounded in the time of the new moon, at the full moon, on our holy feast-day:
4 this is a decree for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
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For this is a rule for Israel, and a law 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 gave it to Joseph as a witness, when he went out over the land of Egypt; then the words of a strange tongue were sounding in my ears.
6 “I removed the burden from their shoulders; their hands were set free from the basket.
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I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets.
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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You gave a cry in your trouble, and I made you free; I gave you an answer in the secret place of the thunder; I put you to the test 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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Give ear, O my people, and I will give you my word, O Israel, if you will only do as I say!
9 You shall have no foreign god among you; you shall not worship any god other than me.
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There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other 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 the Lord your God, who took you up from the land of Egypt: let your mouth be open wide, so that I may give you food.
11 “But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not submit to me.
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But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me.
12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
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So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.
13 “If my people would only listen to me, if Israel would only follow my ways,
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If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways!
14 how quickly I would subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes!
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I would quickly overcome their haters: my hand would be turned against those who make war on them.
15 Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.
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The haters of the Lord would be broken, and their destruction would be eternal.
16 But you would be fed with the finest of wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
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I would give them the best grain for food; you would be full of honey from the rock.
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