1. [Alex. David] - Rejoice ye in God our helper; shout aloud to the God of Jacob.
2. Take a psalm, and produce the timbrel, the pleasant psaltery with the harp.
3. Blow the trumpet at the new moon, in the glorious day of [Alex. our] your feast.
4. For this is an ordinance for Israel, and a statute of the God of Jacob.
5. He made [Gr. him, sc. Israel] it to be a testimony in Joseph, when he came forth out of the land of Egypt: he heard a language which he understood not.
6. He removed his back from burdens: his hands slaved in making the baskets.
7. Thou didst call upon me in trouble, and I delivered thee; I heard thee in the secret place of the storm: I proved thee at the water of [Lit. contradiction] Strife. Pause.
8. Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel; and I will testify to thee: if thou wilt hearken to me;
9. there shall be no new god in thee; neither shalt thou worship a strange god.
10. For I am the Lord thy God, that brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11. But my people hearkened not to my voice; and Israel gave no heed to me.
12. So I let them go after the ways of their own hearts: they will go on in their own ways.
13. If my people had hearkened to me, if Israel had walked in my ways,
14. I should have put down their enemies very quickly, and should have laid my hand upon those that afflicted them.
15. The Lord’s enemies should have lied to him: but [sc. of the others] their time shall be for ever.
16. And he fed them with the fat of wheat; and satisfied them with honey out of the rock.