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To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph. 
 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 Meribah. 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 heart’s lust: 
And they walked in their own counsels. 
 13 O 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.