- For the Chief Musician;
set to the Gittith. [A Psalm] of Asaph.
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- Sing aloud unto God our strength: Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
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- Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery.
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- Blow the trumpet at the new moon, At the full moon, on our feast-day.
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- For it is a statute for Israel, An ordinance of the God of Jacob.
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- He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, When he went out over the land of Egypt, [Where] I heard a language that I knew not.
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- I removed his shoulder from the burden: His hands were freed from the basket.
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- Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee;
I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah
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- Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!
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- There shall no strange god be in thee;
Neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.
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- I am Jehovah thy God, Who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
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- But my people hearkened not to my voice;
And Israel would none of me.
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- So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.
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- Oh that my people would hearken unto me, That Israel would walk in my ways!
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- I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries.
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- The haters of Jehovah should submit themselves unto him: But their time should endure for ever.
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- He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat;
And with honey out of the rock would I satisfy thee.
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