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¹ SING aloud to God our strength; make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.² Take a psalm and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.³ Blow trumpets in the new moon in the time appointed, on our solemn feast days.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 to the land of Egypt, where he heard a language that he understood not.⁶ I removed the yoke from his shoulder, I released his hands from the bonds.⁷ He called on me in trouble, and I delivered him; I sheltered him under my glorious cover; I tested him at the waters of dispute.

⁸ Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify about you. If you will listen to me;⁹ There shall be no strange god in you; neither shall you worship any strange god.¹⁰ I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt; open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.¹¹ But my people would not listen to my voice; and Israel would have none of me.¹² So they walked according to the desires of their own hearts and according to their own counsels.¹³ Oh that my people had listened to me, and Israel had walked in my ways!¹⁴ I would soon have destroyed their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.¹⁵ The haters of the LORD have lied to him; but they shall tremble for ever.¹⁶ He has fed them also with the finest of the wheat; and with honey out of the rock has he satisfied them.