New Revised Standard NRS
The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy 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 Raise a song, sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp.
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Take up the melody, playing on an instrument of music, even on corded instruments.
3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our festal day.
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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 For it is a statute 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 He made it a decree in Joseph, when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a voice I had not known:
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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 relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.
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I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets.
7 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)
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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, O my people, while I admonish you; O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
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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 There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
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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 the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide 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 did not listen to my voice; 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 counsels.
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So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.
13 O that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
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If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways!
14 Then I would quickly 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 doom would last forever.
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The haters of the Lord would be broken, and their destruction would be eternal.
16 I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and 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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