Sing for Joy to God Our Strength

1To the chiefe musition vpon Gittith, of Asaph. Sing we meryly vnto the Lorde our strength: make a chearefull noyse vnto the Lorde of Iacob.

2Take the psalterie: bryng hyther the tabret, the merie harpe, with the lute.

3Blowe vp the trumpet in the newe moone, euen in the time appointed: and vpon our solempne feast day.

4For this was made a statute for Israel: and a lawe of the God of Iacob.

5This he ordayned in Ioseph for a testimonie, when he came out of the lande of Egypt: where I hearde a tongue whiche I knewe not.

6I eased his shoulder from the burthen: and his handes ceassed from making pottes.

7Thou calledst vpon me in troubles, and I deliuered thee: I hearde thee out of the middest of a thunder, I proued thee also at the waters of strife. Selah.

8Then I sayd heare O my people: and I wyll geue thee a charge O Israel in protesting vnto thee.

9If thou wylt hearken vnto me, there shall be no straunge God in thee: neither shalt thou geue worship to any other Lorde beside me.

10I am God thy Lorde which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wyde, and I wyll fill it.

11But my people woulde not heare my voyce: and Israel would not obey me.

12So I gaue them vp vnto the wicked cogitations of their owne heartes: and I did let them folowe their owne imaginations.

13O that my people woulde haue hearkened vnto me: O that Israel had walked in my wayes.

14I should soone haue tamed their enemies: and turned myne hande against their aduersaries.

15The haters of God shoulde haue ben founde liers: and their time should haue endured for euer.

16He woulde haue fed them also with the finest wheate flowre: and I would haue satisfied thee with honie out of the stonie rocke.