1. Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
2. Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp.
3. Blow the trumpet at the new moon,at the full moon, on our feast day.
4. For it is a statute for Israel,a rule of the God of Jacob.
5. He made it a decree in Josephwhen he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known:
6. “I relieved your shoulder of the burden;your hands were freed from the basket.
7. In distress you called, and I delivered you;I answered you in the secret place of thunder;I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
8. Hear, O my people, while I admonish you!O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
9. There shall be no strange god among you;you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
10. I am the Lord your God,who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11. “But my people did not listen to my voice;Israel would not submit to me.
12. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,to follow their own counsels.