1: Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto
the God of Jacob. |
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2: Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp
with the psaltery. |
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3:
Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on
our solemn feast day. |
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4: For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of
Jacob. |
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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. |
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6: I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were
delivered from the pots. |
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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. |
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8: Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if
thou wilt hearken unto me; |
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9: There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou
worship any strange god. |
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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. |
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11: But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would
none of me. |
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12: So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they
walked in their own counsels. |
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13: Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had
walked in my ways! |
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14: I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand
against their adversaries. |
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15: The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto
him: but their time should have endured for ever. |
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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. |