Sing for Joy to God Our Strength 1 AKJV To the chief Musician upon Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength: make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob. BSB BSB: For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. Of Asaph. Sing for joy to God our strength; make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.
2 AKJV Take a psalm, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. BSB BSB: Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.
3 AKJV Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. BSB BSB: Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and at the full moon on the day of our Feast.
4 AKJV For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. BSB BSB: For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5 AKJV This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not. BSB BSB: He ordained it as a testimony for Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt, where I heard an unfamiliar language:
6 AKJV I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots. BSB BSB: “I relieved his shoulder of the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.
7 AKJV You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder: I proved you at the waters of Meribah. Selah. BSB BSB: You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the cloud of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
8 AKJV Hear, O my people, and I will testify to you: O Israel, if you will listen to me; BSB BSB: Hear, O My people, and I will warn you: O Israel, if only you would listen to Me!
9 AKJV There shall no strange god be in you; neither shall you worship any strange god. BSB BSB: There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.
10 AKJV I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt: open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. BSB BSB: I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth, and I will fill it.
11 AKJV But my people would not listen to my voice; and Israel would none of me. BSB BSB: But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.
12 AKJV So I gave them up to their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels. BSB BSB: So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
13 AKJV Oh that my people had listened to me, and Israel had walked in my ways! BSB BSB: If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,
14 AKJV I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. BSB BSB: how soon I would subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their foes!
15 AKJV The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves to him: but their time should have endured for ever. BSB BSB: Those who hate the LORD would feign obedience, and their doom would last forever.
16 AKJV He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied you. BSB BSB: But I would feed you the finest wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
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