1 - ?For the director of music. According to gittith.
Sing for joy to God our strength; shout aloud to the God of Jacob!
2 - Begin the music, strike the timbrel, play the melodious harp and lyre.
3 - Sound the ram's horn at the New Moon, and when the moon is full, on the day of our festival;
4 - this is a decree for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5 - When God went out against Egypt, he established it as a statute for Joseph. I heard an unknown voice say:
6 - "I removed the burden from their shoulders; their hands were set free from the basket.
7 - In your distress you called and I rescued you, I answered you out of a thundercloud; I tested you at the waters of Meribah.
8 - Hear me, my people, and I will warn you - if you would only listen to me, Israel!
9 - You shall have no foreign god among you; you shall not worship any god other than me.
10 - I am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.
11 - "But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not submit to me.
12 - So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
13 - "If my people would only listen to me, if Israel would only follow my ways,
14 - how quickly I would subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes!
15 - Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.
16 - But you would be fed with the finest of wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."