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1 (For the one directing. On the gittis. Of Asaph)
2 Sing with joy unto Elohim uzeinu (our strength);
make a joyful noise unto Elohei Ya'akov.
3 Begin a song, and bring hither the tambourine,
the pleasant kinnor (harp) with the nevel (lyre).
4 Blow the shofar at Rosh Chodesh,
at the full moon, on Yom Chageinu.
5 For this was a chok for Yisroel,
and a mishpat of the Elohei Ya'akov.
6 This He ordained in Yosef for an edut,
when He went out over Eretz Mitzrayim;
where a language of one not known did I hear.
7 I removed his shekhem (shoulder) from the burden;
his hands were delivered from the basket.
8 In tzoros thou calledst, and I delivered thee;
I answered thee in the seter ra'am (secret place of thunder);
I tested thee at the waters of Merivah. Selah
9 Shema, O My people, and I will admonish thee;
O Yisroel, if thou wilt pay heed unto Me;
10 There shall no el zar (strange, foreign g-d) be among thee;
neither shalt thou worship any el nechar (foreign g-d).
11 I am Hashem Eloheicha
Who brought thee out of Eretz Mitzrayim;
open thy mouth wide, I will fill it.
12 But My people would not pay heed to My voice;
and Yisroel would have none of Me.
13 So I gave them up
unto their own heartsʼ sherirut (stubbornness);
and they walked in their own mo'atzot (counsels).
14 Oh that My people had paid heed unto Me,
and Yisroel had walked in My ways!
15 I should soon have subdued their oyevim
and turned My Yad (hand, power) against their adversaries.
16 The haters of Hashem should have cringed before Him;
their et (time, fate, punishment) endures l'olam.
17 He would have fed them also with the finest of the chittah (wheat);
and with devash (honey) from the Tzur would I have satisfied thee.