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Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
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Blow the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
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For this [was] a statute for Israel, [and] a law of the God of Jacob.
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This he ordained in Joseph [for] a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: [where] I heard a language [that] I understood not.
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I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
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Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
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Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee; O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me;
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There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
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I [am] the LORD thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
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But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would not obey me.
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So I gave them up to their own hearts lust: [and] they walked in their own counsels.