God’s Goodness and Israel’s Waywardness.
1 Sing aloud to God our strength;
Shout for joy to the God of Jacob (Israel).
2 Raise a song, sound the timbrel,
The sweet sounding lyre with the harp.
3 Blow the trumpet at the New Moon,
At thefull moon, on our feast day.
4 For this is a statute for Israel,
An ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5 He established it for a testimony inJoseph
When He went throughout the land of Egypt.
I heard the language [of One whom] I did not know,saying,
6 “I removed the burden from his shoulder;
His hands were freed from the basket.
7 You called in [the time of] trouble and I rescued you;
I answered you in the secret place of thunder;
I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
8 Hear, O My people, and I will admonish you—
O Israel, if you would listen to Me!
9 Let there be no strange god among you,
Nor shall you worship any foreign god.
10 I am the Lordyour God,
Who brought you up from the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.
11 “But My people would not listen to My voice,
And Israel did not [consent to] obey Me.
12 So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their heart,
To walk in [the path of] their own counsel.
13 Oh, that My people would listen to Me,
That Israel would walk in My ways!
14 Then I would quickly subdueandhumble their enemies
And turn My hand against their adversaries;
15 Those who hate the Lordwould pretend obedience to Himandcringe before Him,
And their timeof punishmentwould be forever.
16 But I would feed Israel with the finest of the wheat;
And with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”