New Living Translation NLT
Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 Sing praises to God, our strength. Sing 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 Sing! Beat the tambourine. Play the sweet lyre and the harp.
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Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with psaltery.
3 Blow the ram’s horn at new moon, and again at full moon to call a festival!
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Blow in the month a trumpet, In the new moon, at the day of our festival,
4 For this is required by the decrees of Israel; it is a regulation of the God of Jacob.
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For a statute to Israel it [is], An ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5 He made it a law for Israel when he attacked Egypt to set us free. 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 “Now I will take the load from your shoulders; I will free your hands from their heavy tasks.
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From the burden his shoulder I turned aside, His hands from the basket pass over.
7 You cried to me in trouble, and I saved you; I answered out of the thundercloud and tested your faith when there was no water at Meribah. Interlude
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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 “Listen to me, O my people, while I give you stern warnings. O Israel, if you would only listen to me!
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Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me:
9 You must never have a foreign god; you must not bow down before a false god.
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There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god.
10 For it was I, the LORD your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it with good things.
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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 no, my people wouldn’t listen. Israel did not want me around.
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But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me.
12 So I let them follow their own stubborn desires, living according to their own ideas.
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And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.
13 Oh, that my people would listen to me! Oh, that Israel would follow me, walking in my paths!
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O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.
14 How quickly I would then subdue their enemies! How soon my hands would be upon 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; they would be doomed forever.
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Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is -- to the age.
16 But I would feed you with the finest wheat. I would satisfy you with wild honey from the rock.”
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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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