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[1]To the Overseer. -- `On the Gittith.' By Asaph. Cry aloud to God our strength, Shout to the God of Jacob. |
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[2]Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with psaltery. |
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[3]Blow in the month a trumpet, In the new moon, at the day of our festival, |
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[4]For a statute to Israel it [is], An ordinance of the God of Jacob. |
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[5]A testimony on Joseph He hath placed it, In his going forth over the land of Egypt. A lip, I have not known -- I hear. |
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[6]From the burden his shoulder I turned aside, His hands from the basket pass over. |
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[7]In distress thou hast called and I deliver thee, I answer thee in the secret place of thunder, I try thee by the waters of Meribah. Selah. |
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[8]Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me: |
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[9]There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god. |
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[10]I [am] Jehovah thy God, Who bringeth thee up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge thy mouth, and I fill it. |
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[11]But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me. |
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[12]And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels. |
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[13]O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk. |
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[14]As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand, |
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[15]Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is -- to the age. |
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[16]He causeth him to eat of the fat of wheat, And [with] honey from a rock I satisfy thee! |