1 {To the Chanter, upon Gittith, of Asaph} Sing merrily unto God, our strength; make a cheerful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2 Take the psalm, bring hither the tabret, the merry harp with the lute.
3 Blow up the trumpets in the new moon, upon our solemn feast day.
4 For this was made a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he came out of Egypt, and had heard a strange language.
6 "I eased his shoulder from the burden, and his hands were delivered from making the pots.
7 When thou calledest upon me in trouble, I delivered thee, and heard thee, what time as the storm fell upon thee. I proved thee also at the waters of strife. Selah.
8 Hear, O my people; for I assure thee, O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me.
9 There shall no strange god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any other god.
10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt; open thy mouth wide, and I shall fill it.
11 But my people would not hear my voice; and Israel would not obey me.
12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust, and let them follow their own imaginations.
13 O that my people would obey me! For if Israel would walk in my ways,
14 I should soon have put down their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
15 The haters of the LORD should have been found liars; but their time should have endured for ever.
16 He should have fed them also with the finest wheat-flour; and with honey out of the stony rock should I have satisfied thee."