Sing for Joy to God Our Strength 1 DRA Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for Asaph himself. Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud 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 DRA Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp. BSB BSB: Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.
3 DRA Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted 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 DRA For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of Jacob. BSB BSB: For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5 DRA He ordained it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the land of Egypt: he heard a tongue which he 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 DRA He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets. BSB BSB: “I relieved his shoulder of the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.
7 DRA Thou calledst upon me in affliction, and I delivered thee: I heard thee in the secret place of tempest: I proved thee at the 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 DRA Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me, BSB BSB: Hear, O My people, and I will warn you: O Israel, if only you would listen to Me!
9 DRA There shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god. BSB BSB: There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.
10 DRA For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee 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 DRA But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me. BSB BSB: But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.
12 DRA So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions. BSB BSB: So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
13 DRA 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 DRA I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them that troubled them. BSB BSB: how soon I would subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their foes!
15 DRA The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever. BSB BSB: Those who hate the LORD would feign obedience, and their doom would last forever.
16 DRA And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of 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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