2 Rejoice ye in God our helper;

Shout aloud to the God of Jacob.

3 Take a psalm, and produce the timbrel,

The pleasant psaltery with the harp.

4 Blow the trumpet at the new moon,

In the glorious day of your feast.

5 For this is an ordinance for Israel,

And a statute of the God of Jacob.

6 He made it to be a testimony in Joseph,

When he came forth out of the land of Egypt:

He heard a language which he understood not.

7 He removed his back from burdens:

His hands slaved in making the baskets.

8 Thou didst call upon me in trouble, and I delivered thee;

I heard thee in the secret place of the storm:

I proved thee at the water of Strife. Pause.

9 Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel;

And I will testify to thee: if thou wilt hearken to me;

10 There shall be no new god in thee;

Neither shalt thou worship a strange god.

11 For I am the Lord thy God,

That brought thee out of the land of Egypt:

Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

12 But my people hearkened not to my voice;

And Israel gave no heed to me.

13 So I let them go after the ways of their own hearts:

They will go on in their own ways.

14 If my people had hearkened to me,

If Israel had walked in my ways,

15 I should have put down their enemies very quickly,

And should have laid my hand upon those that afflicted them.

16 The Lord’s enemies should have lied to him:

But their time shall be forever.

17 And he fed them with the fat of wheat;

And satisfied them with honey out of the rock.