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Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 Sing for joy to God our strength; shout aloud 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 Begin the music, strike the timbrel, play the melodious harp and lyre.
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Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with 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 in the month a trumpet, In the new moon, at the day of our festival,
4 this is a decree for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
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For a statute to Israel it [is], 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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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 removed the burden from their shoulders; their hands were set free from the basket.
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From the burden his shoulder I turned aside, His hands from the basket pass over.
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 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 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 testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken 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 is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange 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 bringeth thee up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge thy mouth, and I 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 hath not consented to Me.
12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
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And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They 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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O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.
14 how quickly I would subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes!
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As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand,
15 Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.
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Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is -- to the age.
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 causeth him to eat of the fat of wheat, And [with] honey from a rock I satisfy thee!
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