1To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph. 2Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob! 3Raise a song, sound the timbrel, the sweet lyre with the harp. 4Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day. 5For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob. 6He made it a decree in Joseph, when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a voice I had not known: 7"I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket. 8In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Mer'ibah. [Selah] 9Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me! 10There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god. 11I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. 12"But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would have none of me. 13So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels. 14O that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! 15I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their foes. 16Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last for ever. [ (Psalms 81:17) I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you." ]