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God's Goodness and Israel's Waywardness.

^1 (C1)Sing for joy to God our ^(C2)strength;
Shout ^(C3)joyfully to the ^(C4)God of Jacob.

² Raise a song, 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,
An ordinance of the God of Jacob.

⁵ He established it as a testimony in Joseph
When he ^(F1)(C1)went throughout the land of Egypt.
I heard a ^(C2)language 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 trouble and I rescued you;
I ^(C2)answered you in the hiding place of thunder;
I put you to the test at the ^(C3)waters of Meribah. Selah

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

⁹ "There shall be no ^(C1)strange god among you;
Nor shall you worship a foreign god.

¹⁰ "^(C1)I, the LORD, am 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 did not ^(F1)obey Me.

¹² "So I ^(C1)gave ^(F1)them over to the stubbornness of their heart,
To walk by their own plans.

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 ^(C2)turn My hand against their adversaries.

¹⁵ "^(C1)Those who hate the LORD would ^(C2)pretend to obey 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."