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Sing! Beat the tambourine.
Play the sweet lyre and the harp.
Play the sweet lyre and the harp.
Raise a song; sound the tambourine,
the sweet lyre with the harp.
the sweet lyre with the harp.
Blow the ram’s horn at new moon,
and again at full moon to call a festival!
and again at full moon to call a festival!
Blow the trumpet at the new moon,
at the full moon, on our feast day.
at the full moon, on our feast day.
For this is required by the decrees of Israel;
it is a regulation of the God of Jacob.
it is a regulation of the God of Jacob.
“Now I will take the load from your shoulders;
I will free your hands from their heavy tasks.
I will free your hands from their heavy tasks.
You cried to me in trouble, and I saved you;
I answered out of the thundercloud
and tested your faith when there was no water at Meribah.
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I answered out of the thundercloud
and tested your faith when there was no water at Meribah.
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In distress you called, and I delivered you;
I answered you in the secret place of thunder;
I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
I answered you in the secret place of thunder;
I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
“Listen to me, O my people, while I give you stern warnings.
O Israel, if you would only listen to me!
O Israel, if you would only listen to me!
Hear, O my people, while I admonish you!
O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
You must never have a foreign god;
you must not bow down before a false god.
you must not bow down before a false god.
There shall be no strange god among you;
you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
For it was I, the LORD your God,
who rescued you from the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it with good things.
who rescued you from the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it with good things.
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.
who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
“But no, my people wouldn’t listen.
Israel did not want me around.
Israel did not want me around.
“But my people did not listen to my voice;
Israel would not submit to me.
Israel would not submit to me.
So I let them follow their own stubborn desires,
living according to their own ideas.
living according to their own ideas.
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,
to follow their own counsels.
to follow their own counsels.
Oh, that my people would listen to me!
Oh, that Israel would follow me, walking in my paths!
Oh, that Israel would follow me, walking in my paths!
Oh, that my people would listen to me,
that Israel would walk in my ways!
that Israel would walk in my ways!
How quickly I would then subdue their enemies!
How soon my hands would be upon their foes!
How soon my hands would be upon their foes!
I would soon subdue their enemies
and turn my hand against their foes.
and turn my hand against their foes.
Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him;
they would be doomed forever.
they would be doomed forever.
Those who hate the Lord would cringe toward him,
and their fate would last forever.
and their fate would last forever.