1 T o the Overseer. -- `On the Gittith.' By Asaph. Cry aloud to God our strength, Shout to the God of Jacob.

Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!

2 L ift up a song, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with psaltery.

Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.

3 B low in the month a trumpet, In the new moon, at the day of our festival,

Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.

4 F or a statute to Israel it, An ordinance of the God of Jacob.

For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

5 A testimony on Joseph He hath placed it, In his going forth over the land of Egypt. A lip, I have not known -- I hear.

He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know.

6 F rom the burden his shoulder I turned aside, His hands from the basket pass over.

“I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.

7 I n distress thou hast called and I deliver thee, I answer thee in the secret place of thunder, I try thee by the waters of Meribah. Selah.

You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.” Selah.

8 H ear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me:

“Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!

9 T here is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god.

There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.

10 I Jehovah thy God, Who bringeth thee up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge thy mouth, and I fill it.

I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

11 B ut, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me.

But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

12 A nd I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

13 O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

14 A s a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand,

I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.

15 T hose hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is -- to the age.

The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.

16 H e causeth him to eat of the fat of wheat, And honey from a rock I satisfy thee!

But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”