4  For it is a statute for Israel,

a rule¹ of the God of Jacob.

5  He made it ^ma decree in ⁿJoseph

when he ^owent out over² the land of Egypt.

^pI hear a language ^qI had not known:

6  “I ^rrelieved your³ shoulder of ^sthe burden;

your hands were freed from the basket.

7  In distress you ^tcalled, and I delivered you;

I ^uanswered you in the secret place of thunder;

I ^vtested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah