^{1 Ref} Sing aloud unto God our strength: Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

^{2 Ref} Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery.

^{3 Ref} Blow the trumpet at the new moon, At the full moon, on our feast-day.

⁴ For it is a statute for Israel, An ordinance of the God of Jacob.

^{5 Ref} He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, When he went out over the land of Egypt, `Where' I heard a language that I knew not.

^{6 Ref} I removed his shoulder from the burden: His hands were freed from the basket.

^{7 Ref} Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah

^{8 Ref} Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!

^{9 Ref} There shall no strange god be in thee; Neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.

^{10 Ref} I am Jehovah thy God, Who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

^{11 Ref} But my people hearkened not to my voice; And Israel would none of me.

^{12 Ref} So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.

^{13 Ref} Oh that my people would hearken unto me, That Israel would walk in my ways!

^{14 Ref} I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries.

^{15 Ref} The haters of Jehovah should submit themselves unto him: But their time should endure for ever.

^{16 Ref} He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat; And with honey out of the rock would I satisfy thee. Psalm 82 A Psalm of Asaph.