^1aTo the choirmaster in singing set to percussion instruments.↑

A Psalm of Asaph.

^1bSing for joy to God our strength;

Shout out to the God of Jacob.

²Raise a melody and play the drum

And the pleasant harp with the lute.

³Blow the ramshorn at the new month

– At the new moon

And on the day of our festival.

⁴For it is a statute for Israel

– An injunction of the God of Jacob.

⁵He appointed it as a testimony in Joseph

When he came out in the face of the land of Egypt,

When I heard a language

Which I did not know.

⁶“I relieved his shoulder of a burden;

His hands were perishing from the brick-basket.

⁷You cried out in adversity,

And I delivered you;

I answered you with thunder secretly.

I tested you at the waters of Meribah.

Selah.

⁸Hear, O my people,

And I will testify to you.

O Israel, if you will hear me,

⁹Do not let there be any strange god among you,

And do not worship any foreign god.

¹⁰I am the Lord your God,

Who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

Open your mouth wide

And I will fill it.

¹¹But my people did not heed me,

And Israel did not want me.

¹²Then I let them go in the stubbornness of their heart,

And they walked in their own counsels.

¹³If only my people would listen to me,

And Israel would walk in my ways!

¹⁴I would soon have subdued their enemies

And have turned my hand against their adversaries.

¹⁵Those who hate the Lord

Would have feigned obedience to him.

And their time would have been age-abiding.

¹⁶And he would have fed them with the best of the wheat,

And I would have satisfied you with honey from a rock.”