1. Sing ye joyously unto God our strength, shout aloud unto the God of Jacob;
2. Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with the lute.
3. Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the set time, on our feast day:
4. For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob;
5. He ordained it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went forth 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 delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
8. Hear, 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 foreign god