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Exultate DeoBCP p. 7041Sing with joy to God our strength *and raise a loud shout to the God of Jacob.
2Raise a song and sound the timbrel, *the merry harp, and the lyre.
3Blow the ram’s-horn at the new moon, *and at the full moon, the day of our feast.
4For this is a statute for Israel, *a law of the God of Jacob.
5He laid it as a solemn charge upon Joseph, *when he came out of the land of Egypt.
6I heard an unfamiliar voice saying, *“I eased his shoulder from the burden; his hands were set free from bearing the load.”
7You called on me in trouble, and I saved you; *I answered you from the secret place of thunder and tested you at the waters of Meribah.
8Hear, O my people, and I will admonish you: *O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
9There shall be no strange god among you; *you shall not worship a foreign god.
10I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and said, *“Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.”
11And yet my people did not hear my voice, *and Israel would not obey me.
12So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their hearts, *to follow their own devices.
13Oh, that my people would listen to me! *that Israel would walk in my ways!
14I should soon subdue their enemies *and turn my hand against their foes.
15Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him, *and their punishment would last for ever.
16But Israel would I feed with the finest wheat *and satisfy him with honey from the rock.