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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 to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob.
2 Begin the music, strike the timbrel, play the melodious harp and lyre.
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Raise a song, sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp.
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 festal 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 made it a decree in Joseph, when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a voice I had not known:
6 “I removed the burden from their shoulders; their hands were set free from the basket.
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"I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your 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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In distress you called, and I rescued you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you 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, while I admonish you; O Israel, if you would but listen to 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 be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a 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 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 would not listen to me; Israel would not submit to me.
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"But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me.
12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
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So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
13 “If my people would only listen to me, if Israel would only follow my ways,
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O that my people would listen to 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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Then I would quickly subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their foes.
15 Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.
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Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him, and their doom would last forever.
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 feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."
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