4  For it is a statute for Israel,

a rule¹ of the God of Jacob.

5  He made it a decree in Joseph

when he went out over² the land of Egypt.

I hear a language I had not known:

6  “I relieved your³ 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