Sing for Joy to God Our Strength 1 DBY To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph. Sing ye joyously unto God our strength, shout aloud unto 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 DBY Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with the lute. BSB BSB: Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.
3 DBY Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the set time, on our 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 DBY For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob; BSB BSB: For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5 DBY He ordained it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went forth over the land of Egypt, where I heard a language that I knew 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 DBY I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from the basket. BSB BSB: “I relieved his shoulder of the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.
7 DBY Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee 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 DBY Hear, my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me! BSB BSB: Hear, O My people, and I will warn you: O Israel, if only you would listen to Me!
9 DBY There shall no strange god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any foreign god. BSB BSB: There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.
10 DBY I am Jehovah thy God, that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: open thy 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 DBY But my people hearkened not 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 DBY So I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels. BSB BSB: So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
13 DBY Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had walked in my ways! BSB BSB: If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,
14 DBY I would 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 DBY The haters of Jehovah would have come cringing unto him; but their time would have been for ever. BSB BSB: Those who hate the LORD would feign obedience, and their doom would last forever.
16 DBY And he would have fed them with the finest of wheat; yea, with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied thee. BSB BSB: But I would feed you the finest wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
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