1. Sing aloud to God, our strength!Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!
2. Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine,the pleasant lyre with the harp.
3. Blow the shofar at the New Moon,at the full moon, on our feast day.
4. For it is a statute for Israel,an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5. He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant,when he went out over the land of Egypt,I heard a language that I didn’t know.
6. “I removed his shoulder from the burden.His hands were freed from the basket.
7. You called in trouble, and I delivered you.I answered you in the secret place of thunder.I tested you at the waters of Meribah.” Selah.
8. “Hear, my people, and I will testify to you,Israel, if you would listen to me!
9. There shall be no strange god in you,neither shall you worship any foreign god.