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To the Chief Musician upon gittith. A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
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Take a psalm, and bring here the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
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Blow the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
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For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
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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.
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I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were freed from the basket.
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You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder: I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
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Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto you: O Israel, if you will hearken unto me;
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There shall no strange god be among you; neither shall you worship any foreign god.
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I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt: open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
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But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would have none of me.
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So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
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Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
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I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
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The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: and their fate should have endured forever.
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He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied you.