Revised Standard Version RSV
Good News Translation GNT
1 To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
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Shout for joy to God our defender; sing praise to the God of Jacob!
2 Raise a song, sound the timbrel, the sweet lyre with the harp.
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Start the music and beat the tambourines; play pleasant music on the harps and the lyres.
3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
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Blow the trumpet for the festival, when the moon is new and when the moon is full.
4 For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
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This is the law in Israel, an order from 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 the people of Israel when he attacked the land of Egypt. I hear an unknown voice saying,
6 "I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.
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"I took the burdens off your backs; I let you put down your loads of bricks.
7 In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Mer'ibah. [Selah]
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When you were in trouble, you called to me, and I saved you. From my hiding place in the storm, I answered you. I put you to the test at the springs of Meribah.
8 Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
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Listen, my people, to my warning; Israel, how I wish you would listen to me!
9 There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
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You must never worship another 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 brought you out of Egypt. Open your mouth, and I will feed you.
11 "But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would have none of me.
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"But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not obey me.
12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
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So I let them go their stubborn ways and do whatever they wanted.
13 O that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
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How I wish my people would listen to me; how I wish they would obey me!
14 I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their foes.
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I would quickly defeat their enemies and conquer all their foes.
15 Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last for ever.
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Those who hate me would bow in fear before me; their punishment would last forever.
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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But I would feed you with the finest wheat and satisfy you with wild honey."
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.