For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph.
Sing aloud to God, our strength! Jer 31:7Psa 66:1Psa 100:1-2Php 4:13Psa 46:11Psa 8:1Psa 28:7Gen 50:17
Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!
Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, Psa 149:1-3Col 3:16Psa 92:3Eph 5:19Exo 15:20Mrk 14:26Jas 5:13Psa 95:1-2
the pleasant lyre with the harp.
Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, Lev 23:24-25Num 15:32Ch 2:42Ch 13:14Deu 16:15Num 10:1-101Ch 15:241Ch 16:42
at the full moon, on our feast day.
For it is a statute for Israel,
an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant, Deu 28:49Jer 5:15Psa 114:11Co 14:21-22Exo 11:4Exo 13:8-9Isa 28:11Psa 77:15
when he went out over the land of Egypt,
I heard a language that I didn’t know.
“I removed his shoulder from the burden. Isa 9:4Isa 10:27Exo 6:6Mat 11:29Exo 1:14Psa 68:13
His hands were freed from the basket.
You called in trouble, and I delivered you. Exo 19:19Num 20:13Exo 2:23Psa 50:15Exo 14:10Exo 14:30-31Psa 91:14-15Exo 14:24
I answered you in the secret place of thunder.
I tested you at the waters of Meribah.” Selah.
“Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Psa 50:7Exo 15:26Jhn 3:111Jn 5:9Isa 1:19Isa 55:3-4Jhn 3:32-33Psa 81:13
Israel, if you would listen to me!
There shall be no strange god in you, Isa 43:12Deu 32:121Co 8:5-6Deu 6:14Exo 20:3-5Mal 2:11Psa 44:20
neither shall you worship any foreign god.
I am the LORD, your God, Jhn 15:7Exo 20:2Psa 107:9Jhn 7:37Rev 21:6Eph 3:19-20Psa 37:3-4Rev 22:17
who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Jer 7:23-24Deu 32:18Exo 32:1Jer 2:11-13Deu 32:15Heb 10:29Pro 1:30Zec 7:11
Israel desired none of me.
So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, Jer 7:24Rom 1:24Isa 30:1Act 7:422Th 2:9-11Act 14:16Rom 1:26-27Jer 44:16-17
that they might walk in their own counsels.
Oh that my people would listen to me, Deu 5:29Isa 48:18Deu 10:12-13Luk 19:41-42Mat 23:37Deu 32:29
that Israel would walk in my ways!
I would soon subdue their enemies, Amo 1:8Jdg 2:20-23Jos 23:13Num 14:9Num 14:45Psa 47:3Zec 13:7
and turn my hand against their adversaries.
The haters of the LORD would cringe before him, Deu 7:10Psa 63:3Rom 1:30Rom 8:7Exo 20:5Jol 3:20Jhn 15:22-23Psa 102:28
and their punishment would last forever.
But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. Deu 32:13-14Psa 147:141Sa 14:25-26Jol 2:24Jdg 14:18Jdg 14:8-9Job 29:6
I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”