Read the Bible

¹ Sing aloud to God our strength;
    shout for joy to the God of Jacob.
² Raise a song, sound the tambourine,
    the sweet lyre with the harp.
³ Blow the trumpet at the new moon,
    at the full moon, on our festal day.
⁴ For it is a statute for Israel,
    an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
⁵ He made it a decree in Joseph,
    when he went out over^[a] the land of Egypt.

I hear a voice I had not known:
⁶ "I relieved your^[b] shoulder of the burden;
    your^[c] hands were freed from the basket.
⁷ In distress you called, and I rescued you;
    I answered you in the secret place of thunder;
    I tested you at the waters of Meribah.Selah
⁸ Hear, O my people, while I admonish you;
    O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
⁹ There shall be no strange god among you;
    you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
¹⁰ I am the Lord your God,
    who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
    Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.

¹¹ "But my people did not listen to my voice;
    Israel would not submit to me.
¹² So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,
    to follow their own counsels.
¹³ O that my people would listen to me,
    that Israel would walk in my ways!
¹⁴ Then I would quickly subdue their enemies,
    and turn my hand against their foes.
¹⁵ Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him,
    and their doom would last forever.
¹⁶ I would feed you^[d] with the finest of the wheat,
    and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."