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1Sing loud to God our strength; with joy
to Jacob's God do sing.
2Take up a psalm, the pleasant harp,
timbrel and psalt'ry bring.
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3Blow trumpets at new-moon, what day
our feast appointed is:
4For charge to Isr'el, and a law
of Jacob's God was this.
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5To Joseph this a testimony
he made, when
Egypt
land
He
travell'd through, where speech I heard
I did not understand.
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6His shoulder I from burdens took,
his hands from pots did free.
7Thou didst in trouble on me call,
and I deliver'd thee:
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In
secret place of thundering
I did thee answer make;
And
at the streams of Meribah
of thee a proof did take.
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8O thou, my people, give an ear,
I'll testify to thee;
To
thee, O Isr'el, if thou wilt
but hearken unto me.
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9In midst of thee there shall not be
any strange god at all;
Nor
unto any god unknown
thou bowing down shalt fall.
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10I am the Lord thy God, which did
from
Egypt
land thee guide;
I'll
fill thy mouth abundantly,
do thou it open wide.
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11But yet my people to my voice
would not attentive be;
And
ev'n my chosen
Israel
he would have none of me.
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12So to the lust of their own hearts
I them delivered;
And
then in counsels of their own
they vainly wandered.
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13O that my people had me heard,
Isr'el my ways had chose!
14I had their en'mies soon subdu'd,
my hand turn'd on their foes.
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15The haters of the Lord to him
submission should have feign'd;
But
as for them, their time should have
for evermore remain'd.
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16He should have also fed them with
the finest of the wheat;
Of
honey from the rock thy fill
I should have made thee eat.
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