1 For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2 Take up the psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, at the full moon, on our solemn feast day.
4 For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5 He appointed it in Joseph for testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I knew not.
6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were freed from the basket.