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Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob.
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Raise a song, sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp.
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Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our festal day.
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For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
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He made it a decree in Joseph, when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a voice I had not known:
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“I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.
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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
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Hear, O my people, while I admonish you; O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
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There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
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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.
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“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me.
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So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
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O that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
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Then I would quickly subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their foes.
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Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him, and their doom would last forever.
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I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
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