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Sing with joy to God our strength * and raise a loud shout to the God of Jacob.

Raise a song and sound the timbrel, * the merry harp, and the lyre.

Blow the ram’s&#8209;horn at the new moon, * and at the full moon, the day of our feast.

For this is a statute for Israel, * a law of the God of Jacob.

He laid it as a solemn charge upon Joseph, * when he came out of the land of Egypt.

I heard an unfamiliar voice saying, * “I eased his shoulder from the burden; his hands were set free from bearing the load.”

You 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.

Hear, O my people, and I will admonish you: * O Israel, if you would but listen to me!

There shall be no strange god among you; * you shall not worship a foreign god.

I am the your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and said, * “Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.”

And yet my people did not hear my voice, * and Israel would not obey me.

So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their hearts, * to follow their own devices.