| | 1 | Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob!
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| | 2 | Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, The pleasant lyre with the harp.
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| | 3 | Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, At the full moon, on our feast day.
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| | 4 | For it is a statute for Israel, An ordinance of the God of Jacob.
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| | 5 | He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, When he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn't know.
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| | 6 | "I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.
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| | 7 | 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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| | 8 | "Hear, my people, and I will testify to you. Israel, if you would listen to me!
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| | 9 | There shall be no strange god in you, Neither shall you worship any foreign god.
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| | 10 | I am Yahweh, your God, Who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
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| | 11 | But my people didn't listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
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| | 12 | So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, That they might walk in their own counsels.
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| | 13 | Oh that my people would listen to me, That Israel would walk in my ways!
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| | 14 | I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries.
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| | 15 | The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, And their punishment would last forever.
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| | 16 | But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock." Psalm 82 A Psalm by Asaph.
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