To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph.

1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery.

3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, In the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

4 For this was a statute for Israel, And a law of the God of Jacob.

5 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.

6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: His hands were delivered from the pots.

7 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.

8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;

9 There shall no strange god be in thee; Neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; And Israel would none of me.

12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: And they walked in their own counsels.

13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, And Israel had walked in my ways!

14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, And turned my hand against their adversaries.

15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: But their time should have endured for ever.

16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: And with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.