1. For the music director, on the Gittite lyre, of Asaph.
2. Sing for joy to God our strength, shout to the God of Jacob!
3. Lift up a song and sound a tambourine, a sweet lyre with a harp.
4. Blow the shofar at the New Moon, at the full moon for the day of our festival.
5. For it is a decree for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
6. He set it up as a testimony in Joseph, when He went throughout the land of Egypt, I heard a language I did not understand.
7. “I relieved his shoulder of the burden, his hands were set free from the basket.
8. You called out in trouble, and I rescued you. I answered you from the hiding place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
9. Hear, My people, I will admonish you— if you would listen to Me, O Israel!
10. Let there be no foreign god among you, and you shall not worship any alien god.
11. I am Adonai your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.
12. But My people did not listen to My voice. Israel was not willing to be Mine.
13. So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart, to walk in their own counsels.