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For the music director. On the gittith. A psalm of Asaph.
1Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob.2Start the song! Play the tambourine, sweet-sounding lyre, and harp.3Blow the trumpet at the new moon, and at full moon, to begin our festivals,4for this is a rule for Israel, a regulation of the God of Jacob.5God made this statute for Joseph when he opposed the land of Egypt. I heard a voice I didn't know, saying:6“I took the load from your shoulders; I freed your hands from carrying heavy baskets.7In your suffering you cried out to me, and I saved you. I answered you from the thundercloud. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.8My people, listen to my warnings! Israel, please listen to me!9There must not be a strange god among you; you must never bow down to foreign gods and worship them.10I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.11But my people didn't listen to me. Israel didn't want anything to do with me.12So I sent them away to follow their stubborn thinking, living as they chose.13If only my people would listen to me; if only Israel would follow my ways!14It wouldn't take me long to conquer their enemies, to strike down their foes.15Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him, forever doomed.16But I would feed you the best wheat and satisfy you with honey from the rock.”