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Oh That My People Would Listen to Me

^1 (C1)Sing for joy to God our ^(C2)strength;
Make a loud ^(C3)shout to the ^(C4)God of Jacob.

² Lift up a song of praise, strike ^(C1)the tambourine,
The sweet sounding ^(C2)lyre with the ^(C3)harp.

³ Blow the trumpet at the ^(C1)new moon,
At the full moon, on our ^(C2)feast day.

⁴ For it is a statute for Israel,
^(C1)A judgment of the God of Jacob.

⁵ He established it for a testimony in Joseph
When he ^(C1)went forth over the land of Egypt.
I heard a ^(C2)language that I did not know:

⁶ "I ^(F1)(C1)relieved his shoulder of the burden,
His hands were freed from the ^(F2)basket.

⁷ "You ^(C1)called in distress and I rescued you;
I ^(C2)answered you in the hiding place of thunder;
I tested you at the ^(C3)waters of Meribah. ^Selah may mean Pause, Crescendo, Musical Interlude">(F1)Selah.

⁸ "^(C1)Hear, O My people, and I will testify against you;
O Israel, if you ^(C2)would listen to Me!

⁹ "Let there be no ^(C1)strange god among you;
And you shall not worship a foreign god.

¹⁰ "^(C1)I am Yahweh your God,
Who brought you up from the land of Egypt;
^(C2)Open your mouth wide and I will ^(C3)fill it.

¹¹ "But My people ^(C1)did not listen to My voice,
And Israel was not willing to obey Me.

¹² "So I ^(C1)released ^(F1)them over to the stubbornness of their heart,
That they would walk in their own devices.

¹³ "Oh that My people ^(C1)would listen to Me,
That Israel would ^(C2)walk in My ways!

¹⁴ "I would quickly ^(C1)subdue their enemies
And I would ^(C2)turn My hand against their adversaries.

¹⁵ "^(C1)Those who hate Yahweh would ^(C2)cower before Him,
And their time of punishment would be forever.

¹⁶ "^(F1)But I would feed you with the ^(F2)(C1)finest of the wheat,
And with ^(C2)honey from the rock I would satisfy you."