1 For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph.
2 Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine,
3 Blow the shofar 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.