To the chief musician upon Gittith, a psalm of Asaph
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Sing aloud unto God, our strength; make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
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Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
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Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
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For this was a statute for Israel and a law of the God of Jacob.
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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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I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were delivered from the pots.
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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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Hear, O my people; and I will testify unto thee, O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me.
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There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
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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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But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
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So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust; and they walked in their own counsels.
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Oh, that my people had hearkened unto me and Israel had walked in my ways!
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I should soon have subdued their enemies and turned my hand against their adversaries.
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The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto him; but their time should have endured forever.
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He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat; and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.