For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph.
1Sing aloud to God, our strength!
Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!
2Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine,
the pleasant lyre with the harp.
3Blow the trumpet at the New Moon,
at the full moon, on our feast day.
4For it is a statute for Israel,
an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5He 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.
7You 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!
9There shall be no strange god in you,
neither shall you worship any foreign god.
10I am the Lord, your God,
who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11But My people didn’t listen to My voice.
Israel desired none of Me.
12So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts,
that they might walk in their own counsels.
13Oh that My people would listen to Me,
that Israel would walk in My ways!
14I would soon subdue their enemies,
and turn My hand against their adversaries.
15The haters of the Lord would cringe before Him,
and their punishment would last forever.
16But He would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat.
I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”
1In finem, pro torcularibus. Psalmus ipsi Asaph.
2Exsultate Deo adjutori nostro; jubilate Deo Jacob. 3Sumite psalmum, et date tympanum; psalterium jucundum cum cithara. 4Buccinate in neomenia tuba, in insigni die solemnitatis vestræ: 5quia præceptum in Israël est, et judicium Deo Jacob. 6Testimonium in Joseph posuit illud, cum exiret de terra Ægypti; linguam quam non noverat, audivit. 7Divertit ab oneribus dorsum ejus; manus ejus in cophino servierunt. 8In tribulatione invocasti me, et liberavi te. Exaudivi te in abscondito tempestatis; probavi te apud aquam contradictionis. 9Audi, populus meus, et contestabor te. Israël, si audieris me, 10non erit in te deus recens, neque adorabis deum alienum. 11Ego enim sum Dominus Deus tuus, qui eduxi te de terra Ægypti. Dilata os tuum, et implebo illud. 12Et non audivit populus meus vocem meam, et Israël non intendit mihi. 13Et dimisi eos secundum desideria cordis eorum; ibunt in adinventionibus suis. 14Si populus meus audisset me, Israël si in viis meis ambulasset, 15pro nihilo forsitan inimicos eorum humiliassem, et super tribulantes eos misissem manum meam. 16Inimici Domini mentiti sunt ei, et erit tempus eorum in sæcula. 17Et cibavit eos ex adipe frumenti, et de petra melle saturavit eos.