1. Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm of Asaph himself.
2. Exult before God our helper. Sing joyfully to the God of Jacob.
3. Take up a psalm, and bring forth the timbrel: a pleasing Psalter with stringed instruments.
4. Sound the trumpet at the new moon, on the noteworthy day of your solemnity,
5. for it is a precept in Israel and a judgment for the God of Jacob.
6. He set it as a testimony with Joseph, when he went out of the land of Egypt. He heard a tongue that he did not know.
7. He turned the burdens away from his back. His hands had been a slave to baskets.
8. You called upon me in tribulation, and I freed you. I heard you within the hidden tempest. I tested you with waters of contradiction.
9. My people, listen and I will call you to testify. If, O Israel, you will pay heed to me,
10. then there will be no new god among you, nor will you adore a foreign god.
11. For I am the Lord your God, who led you out of the land of Egypt. Widen your mouth, and I will fill it.
12. But my people did not hear my voice, and Israel was not attentive to me.
13. And so, I sent them away, according to the desires of their heart. They will go forth according to their own inventions.