Sing for Joy to God Our Strength 1 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: 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.
8 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 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. |