1 | Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm of Asaph himself. |
2 | Exult before God our helper. Sing joyfully to the God of Jacob. |
3 | Take up a psalm, and bring forth the timbrel: a pleasing Psalter with stringed instruments. |
4 | Sound the trumpet at the new moon, on the noteworthy day of your solemnity, |
5 | for it is a precept in Israel and a judgment for the God of Jacob. |
6 | He set it as a testimony with Joseph, when he went out of the land of Egypt. He heard a tongue that he did not know. |
7 | He turned the burdens away from his back. His hands had been a slave to baskets. |
8 | You called upon me in tribulation, and I freed you. I heard you within the hidden tempest. I tested you with waters of contradiction. |
9 | My people, listen and I will call you to testify. If, O Israel, you will pay heed to me, |
10 | then there will be no new god among you, nor will you adore a foreign god. |
11 | For I am the Lord your God, who led you out of the land of Egypt. Widen your mouth, and I will fill it. |
12 | But my people did not hear my voice, and Israel was not attentive to me. |
13 | And so, I sent them away, according to the desires of their heart. They will go forth according to their own inventions. |
14 | If my people had heard me, if Israel had walked in my ways, |
15 | I would have humbled their enemies, as if it were nothing, and I would have sent my hand upon those who troubled them. |
16 | The enemies of the Lord have lied to him, and their time will come, in every age. |
17 | And he fed them from the fat of the grain, and he saturated them with honey from the rock. |