1 Sing aloud to God, our strength!

2 Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine,

3 Blow the trumpet at the New Moon,

4 For it is a statute for Israel,

5 He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant,

6 “I removed his shoulder from the burden.

7 You called in trouble, and I delivered you.

8 “Hear, my people, and I will testify to you,

9 There shall be no strange god in you,

10 I am the LORD, your God,

11 But my people didn’t listen to my voice.

12 So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts,

13 Oh that my people would listen to me,

14 I would soon subdue their enemies,

15 The haters of the LORD would cringe before him,

16 But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat.