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| 1 To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph. Sing ye joyously unto God our strength, shout aloud unto the God of Jacob; |
A joyful noise – All who have heart sentiments of thankfulness and gratitude should be encouraged to make "a joyful noise unto the Lord" without trained choirs being necessary. R2511:4
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| 2 Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with the lute. |
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| 3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the set time, on our feast day: |
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| 4 For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob; |
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| 5 He ordained it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went forth over the land of Egypt, where I heard a language that I knew not. |
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| 6 I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from the basket. |
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| 7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah. |
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| 8 Hear, my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me! |
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| 9 There shall no strange *god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any foreign *god. |
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| 10 I am Jehovah thy God, that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. |
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| 11 But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me. |
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| 12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels. |
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| 13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had walked in my ways! |
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| 14 I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. |
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| 15 The haters of Jehovah would have come cringing unto him; but their time would have been for ever. |
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| 16 And he would have fed them with the finest of wheat; yea, with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied thee. |
Finest of the wheat – It is necessary that the New Creature be fed upon it. R5735:6
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