1 For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith.
2 Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel,
3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon,
4 For it is a statute for Israel,
5 He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony,
6 I removed his shoulder from the burden:
7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee;
8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee:
9 There shall no strange god be in thee;
10 I am Jehovah thy God,
11 But my people hearkened not to my voice;
12 So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart,
13 Oh that my people would hearken unto me,
14 I would soon subdue their enemies,
15 The haters of Jehovah should submit themselves unto him:
16 He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat;