1 Sing loud to God our strength; with joyto Jacob's God do sing.
2 Take up a psalm, the pleasant harp,timbrel and psalt'ry bring.
3 Blow trumpets at new-moon, what dayour feast appointed is:
4 For charge to Isr'el,and a law of Jacob's God was this.
5 To Joseph this a testimonyhe made, when Egypt landHe travell'd through, where speech I heardI did not understand.
6 His shoulder I from burdens took,his hands from pots did free.
7 Thou didst in trouble on me call,and I deliver'd thee:In secret place of thunderingI did thee answer make;And at the streams of Meribahof thee a proof did take.
8 O thou, my people, give an ear,I'll testify to thee;To thee, O Isr'el, if thou wiltbut hearken unto me.
9 In midst of thee there shall not beany strange god at all;Nor unto any god unknownthou bowing down shalt fall.
10 I am the Lord thy God, which didfrom Egypt land thee guide;I'll fill thy mouth abundantly,do thou it open wide.
11 But yet my people to my voicewould not attentive be;And ev'n my chosen Israelhe would have none of me.
12 So to the lust of their own heartsI them delivered;And then in counsels of their ownthey vainly wandered.
13 O that my people had me heard,Isr'el my ways had chose!
14 I had their en'mies soon subdu'd,my hand turn'd on their foes.
15 The haters of the Lord to himsubmission should have feign'd;But as for them, their time should havefor evermore remain'd.
16 He should have also fed them withthe finest of the wheat;Of honey from the rock thy fillI should have made thee eat.