1. SING ALOUD to God our Strength! Shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
2. Raise a song, sound the timbrel, the sweet lyre with the harp.
3. Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
4. For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5. This He ordained in Joseph [the savior] for a testimony when He went out over the land of Egypt. The speech of One Whom I knew not did I hear [saying],
6. I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.
7. You called in distress and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! [Num. 20:3, 13, 24.]
8. Hear, O My people, and I will admonish you–O Israel, if you would listen to Me!