1  Sing aloud to God our strength;

^kshout for joy to the God of Jacob!

2  Raise a song; sound the tambourine,

the sweet lyre with the harp.

3  ^lBlow the trumpet at the ^mnew moon,

at the full moon, on our feast day.

4  For it is a statute for Israel,

a rule² of the God of Jacob.

5  He made it a decree in Joseph

when he went out over³ the land of Egypt.

I hear a language I had not known:

6  “I relieved your⁴ shoulder of the ⁿburden;

your hands were freed from the basket.

7  ^oIn distress you ^pcalled, and I delivered you;

I answered you in the secret place of thunder;

I tested you ^qat the waters of Meribah. Selah

8  Hear, O my people, while I admonish you!

O Israel, if you would but listen to me!

9  ^rThere shall be no strange god among you;

you shall not bow down to a foreign god.

10  I am the Lord your God,

^swho brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

11  ^t“But my people did not listen to my voice;

Israel would not submit to me.

12  So I ^ugave them over to their ^vstubborn hearts,

to follow ^wtheir own counsels.

13  ^xOh, that my people would listen to me,

that Israel would ^ywalk in my ways!

14  I would soon subdue their enemies

and turn my hand against their foes.

15  Those who hate the Lord would cringe toward him,

and their fate would last forever.

16  But he would feed you⁵ with the ^zfinest of the wheat,

and with ^ahoney from the rock I would satisfy you.”