{To the Chanter, upon Gittith, of Asaph} Sing merrily unto God, our strength; make a cheerful noise unto the God of Jacob.

I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt; open thy mouth wide, and I shall fill it.

Blow up the trumpets in the new moon, upon our solemn feast day.

But my people would not hear my voice; and Israel would not obey me.

He should have fed them also with the finest wheat-flour; and with honey out of the stony rock should I have satisfied thee."

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.

O that my people would obey me! For if Israel would walk in my ways,

So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust, and let them follow their own imaginations.

Take the psalm, bring hither the tabret, the merry harp with the lute.

Hear, O my people; for I assure thee, O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me.

"I eased his shoulder from the burden, and his hands were delivered from making the pots.

For this was made a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

There shall no strange god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any other god.

This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he came out of Egypt, and had heard a strange language.

The haters of the LORD should have been found liars; but their time should have endured for ever.

I should soon have put down their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.