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[[To him that excelleth upon Gittith.] A Psalm Chapter committed to Asaph.]
[1] Sing joyfully unto God our strength: sing loud unto the God of Jacob.
[2] Take the song and bring forth the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the viol.
[3] Blow the trumpet in the new moon, even in the time appointed, at our feast day.
[4] For this is a statute for Israel, and a Law of the God of Jacob.
[5] He set this in Joseph for a testimony, when he came out of the land of Egypt, where I heard a language, that I understood not.
[6] I have withdrawn his shoulder from the burden, and his hands have left the pots.
[7] Thou callest in affliction and I delivered thee, and answered thee in the secret of the thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
[8] Hear, O my people, and I will protest unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me,
[9] Let there be no strange god in thee, neither worship thou any strange god.
[10] For 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 hear my voice, and Israel would none of me.
[12] So I gave them up unto the hardness of their heart, and they have walked in their own counsels.
[13] Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways.
[14] I would soon have humbled their enemies, and turned mine hand against their adversaries.
[15] The haters of the Lord should have been subject unto him, and their time should have endured forever.
[16] And God would have fed them with the fat of wheat, and with honey out of the rock would I have sufficed thee.
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