1 | Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob! |
2 | Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp. |
3 | Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day. |
4 | For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob. |
5 | He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn't know. |
6 | "I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket. |
7 | You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah." Selah. |
8 | "Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me! |
9 | There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god. |
10 | I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. |
11 | But my people didn't listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me. |
12 | So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels. |
13 | Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! |
14 | I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries. |
15 | The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever. |
16 | But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock." Psalm 82 A Psalm by Asaph. |