1 css="font-style:italic">For the end, a Psalm for Alex. David css="font-style:italic"> Asaph, concerning the wine-presses. - Rejoice ye in God our helper; shout aloud to the God of Jacob.
2 Take a psalm, and produce the timbrel, the pleasant psaltery with the harp.
3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, in the glorious day of Alex. our your feast.
4 For this is an ordinance for Israel, and a statute of the God of Jacob.
5 He made Gr. him, sc. Israel it to be a testimony in Joseph, when he came forth out of the land of Egypt: he heard a language which he understood not.
6 He removed his back from burdens: his hands slaved in making the baskets.
7 Thou didst call upon me in trouble, and I delivered thee; I heard thee in the secret place of the storm: I proved thee at the water of Lit. contradiction Strife. Pause.
8 Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel; and I will testify to thee: if thou wilt hearken to me;
9 there shall be no new god in thee; neither shalt thou worship a strange god.
10 For I am the Lord thy God, that brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 But my people hearkened not to my voice; and Israel gave no heed to me.
12 So I let them go after the ways of their own hearts: they will go on in their own ways.
13 If my people had hearkened to me, if Israel had walked in my ways,
14 I should have put down their enemies very quickly, and should have laid my hand upon those that afflicted them.
15 The Lord’s enemies should have lied to him: but sc. of the others their time shall be for ever.
16 And he fed them with the fat of wheat; and satisfied them with honey out of the rock.