1 Sing aloud unto God our strength:make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel,the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon,in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
5 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.
6 I removed his shoulder from the burden:his hands were delivered from the pots.
7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee;I answered thee in the secret place of thunder:I proved thee at the waters of Mer´ibah. Selah.
8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee:O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
9 there shall no strange god be in thee;neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
10 I am the Lord thy God,which brought thee out of the land of Egypt:open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 But my people would not hearken to my voice;and Israel would none of me.
12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
14 I should soon have subdued their enemies,and turned my hand against their adversaries.
15 The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto him:but their time should have endured for ever.
16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat:and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.