The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000.
God’s Goodness and Israel’s Waywardness |
To the chief Musician upon Git’tith, A Psalm of Asaph. |
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Sing aloud unto God our strength:
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make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. |
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Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel,
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the pleasant harp with the psaltery. |
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Blow up the trumpet in the new moon,
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in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. Num. 10.10 |
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For this was a statute for Israel,
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and a law of the God of Jacob. |
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This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony,
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when he went out through the land of Egypt: |
where I heard a language that I understood not. |
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I removed his shoulder from the burden:
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his hands were delivered from the pots. |
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Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee;
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I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: |
I proved thee at the waters of Mer’ibah. Ex. 17.7 · Num. 20.13 Selah. |
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Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee:
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O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; |
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there shall no strange god be in thee;
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I am the LORD thy God,
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which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: |
open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. |
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But my people would not hearken to my voice;
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and Israel would none of me. |
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So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust:
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and they walked in their own counsels. |
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Oh that my people had hearkened unto me,
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and Israel had walked in my ways! |
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I should soon have subdued their enemies,
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and turned my hand against their adversaries. |
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The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him:
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but their time should have endured for ever. |
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He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat:
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and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. |
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