| New Living Translation | English Standard Version |
| 1Sing praises to God, our strength. Sing to the God of Jacob. | 1Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob! |
| 2Sing! Beat the tambourine. Play the sweet lyre and the harp. | 2Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp. |
| 3Blow the ram’s horn at new moon, and again at full moon to call a festival! | 3Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day. |
| 4For this is required by the decrees of Israel; it is a regulation of the God of Jacob. | 4For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob. |
| 5He made it a law for Israel when he attacked Egypt to set us free. I heard an unknown voice say, | 5He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known: |
| 6“Now I will take the load from your shoulders; I will free your hands from their heavy tasks. | 6“I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket. |
| 7You cried to me in trouble, and I saved you; I answered out of the thundercloud and tested your faith when there was no water at Meribah. Interlude | 7In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah |
| 8“Listen to me, O my people, while I give you stern warnings. O Israel, if you would only listen to me! | 8Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me! |
| 9You must never have a foreign god; you must not bow down before a false god. | 9There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god. |
| 10For it was I, the LORD your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it with good things. | 10I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. |
| 11“But no, my people wouldn’t listen. Israel did not want me around. | 11“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me. |
| 12So I let them follow their own stubborn desires, living according to their own ideas. | 12So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels. |
| 13Oh, that my people would listen to me! Oh, that Israel would follow me, walking in my paths! | 13Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! |
| 14How quickly I would then subdue their enemies! How soon my hands would be upon their foes! | 14I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes. |
| 15Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him; they would be doomed forever. | 15Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last forever. |
| 16But I would feed you with the finest wheat. I would satisfy you with wild honey from the rock.” | 16But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.” |
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