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1 Sing for joy to God our strength;
shout to the God of Jacob.
2 Raise a song and sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp.
3 Blow the ram’s horn at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
4 For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5 He established it as a testimony in Joseph when he went out against the land of Egypt.
I heard a language I did not know:
6 “I relieved his shoulder of the burden;
his hands were freed from the basket.
7 In distress you called, and I rescued you;
I answered you from the hiding place of thunder.
I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
8 Listen, my people, and I will warn you.
Israel, if only you would listen to me!
9 There must be no strange god among you, and you must not bow down to a foreign god.
10 I am the LORD your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 But my people did not listen to my voice;
Israel would have none of me.
12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to walk in their own counsels.
13 If only my people would listen to me, if Israel would walk in my ways!
14 I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their adversaries.
15 Those who hate the LORD would feign submission to him, and their time would last forever.
16 He would feed him the finest wheat, and I would satisfy you with honey from the rock.”