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[1] Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

[2] Take up the psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

[3] Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, at the full moon, on our solemn feast day.

[4] For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

[5] He appointed it in Joseph for testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I knew not.

[6] I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were freed from the basket.

[7] Thou calledst in trouble, and I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah

[8] Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!

[9] There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

[10] I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

[11] But my people hearkened not to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

[12] So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, that they might walk in their own counsels.

[13] Oh that my people would hearken unto me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

[14] I should soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.

[15] The haters of the LORD should submit themselves unto him: but their time should endure for ever.

[16] He should feed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I satisfy thee.

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