May 13, 2019
1 Sing for joy to God our
strength;
shout aloud to the God of Jacob!
2 Begin the music, strike the
timbrel,
play the melodious harp and
lyre.
3 Sound the ram’s
horn at the New Moon,
and when the moon is full, on the day of our
festival;
4 this is a decree for Israel,
an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5 When God went out against Egypt,
he established it as a statute for
Joseph.
I heard an unknown voice say:
6 “I removed the
burden from their shoulders;
their hands were set free from the
basket.
7 In your distress you called and I
rescued you,
I answered you out of a
thundercloud;
I tested you at the waters of Meribah.[c]
8 Hear me, my people, and I will warn
you—
if you would only listen to me,
Israel!
9 You shall have no foreign god among
you;
you shall not worship any god other than
me.
10 I am the Lord your God,
who brought you up out of Egypt.
Open wide your mouth and I will
fill it.
11 “But my people
would not listen to me;
Israel would not submit to me.
12 So I gave them over to their stubborn
hearts
to follow their own devices.
13 “If my people
would only listen to me,
if Israel would only follow my
ways,
14 how quickly I would subdue their
enemies
and turn my hand against their
foes!
15 Those who hate the Lord would cringe before
him,
and their punishment would last
forever.
16 But you would be fed with the finest of
wheat;
with honey from the rock I would satisfy
you.”