1To the Chief Musician. On "the Gittith." Asaph’s. 2Raise a melody, and strike the timbrel, The lyre so sweet, with the harp: 3Blow, at the new moon, the horn, At the full moon, for the day of our sacred festival: 4For, a statute to Israel, it is, A regulation, by the God of Jacob; 5A testimony in Joseph, he appointed it, When he went forth over the land of Egypt: A language I liked not, used I to hear; 6I took away, from the burden, his shoulder, his hands, from the clay, were set free. 7In distress, thou didst cry, and I delivered thee,—I answered thee, within a hiding-place of thunder, I proved thee by the waters of Meribah. *[*Selah.*]* 8 Hear, O my people, and I will adjure thee, O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me! 9There shall not be, within thee, a foreign GOD,—Neither shalt thou bow down to a strange GOD: 10I, Yahweh, am thy God, Who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt,—Open wide thy mouth, that I may fill it. 11But my people, hearkened not, unto my voice, Even, Israel, inclined not unto me. 12So then I let them go on in the stubbornness of their own heart,[—] They might walk in their own counsels! 13If, my people, were hearkening unto me, [If,] Israel, in my ways, would walk, 14Right soon, their foes, would I subdue, And, against their adversaries, would I turn my hand: 15The haters of Yahweh, should come cringing unto him, Then let their own good time be age-abiding! 16Then would he feed them from the marrow of the wheat, Yea, out of the rock—with honey, would I satisfy thee.