Sing for Joy to God Our Strength 1 CPDV Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm of Asaph himself. Exult before God our helper. Sing joyfully 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 CPDV Take up a psalm, and bring forth the timbrel: a pleasing Psalter with stringed instruments. BSB BSB: Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.
3 CPDV Sound the trumpet at the new moon, on the noteworthy day of your solemnity, BSB BSB: Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and at the full moon on the day of our Feast.
4 CPDV for it is a precept in Israel and a judgment for the God of Jacob. BSB BSB: For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5 CPDV He set it as a testimony with Joseph, when he went out of the land of Egypt. He heard a tongue that he did not know. 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 CPDV He turned the burdens away from his back. His hands had been a slave to baskets. BSB BSB: “I relieved his shoulder of the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.
7 CPDV You called upon me in tribulation, and I freed you. I heard you within the hidden tempest. I tested you with waters of contradiction. 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 CPDV My people, listen and I will call you to testify. If, O Israel, you will pay heed to me, BSB BSB: Hear, O My people, and I will warn you: O Israel, if only you would listen to Me!
9 CPDV then there will be no new god among you, nor will you adore a foreign god. BSB BSB: There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.
10 CPDV For I am the Lord your God, who led you out of the land of Egypt. Widen your mouth, 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 CPDV But my people did not hear my voice, and Israel was not attentive to me. BSB BSB: But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.
12 CPDV And so, I sent them away, according to the desires of their heart. They will go forth according to their own inventions. BSB BSB: So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
13 CPDV If my people had heard me, if Israel had walked in my ways, BSB BSB: If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,
14 CPDV I would have humbled their enemies, as if it were nothing, and I would have sent my hand upon those who troubled them. BSB BSB: how soon I would subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their foes!
15 CPDV The enemies of the Lord have lied to him, and their time will come, in every age. BSB BSB: Those who hate the LORD would feign obedience, and their doom would last forever.
16 CPDV And he fed them from the fat of the grain, and he saturated them with honey from the rock. BSB BSB: But I would feed you the finest wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
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