1 TO THE OVERSEER. ON THE GITTITH. BY ASAPH. Cry aloud to God our strength, || Shout to the God of Jacob. 2 Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, || A pleasant harp with stringed instrument. 3 Blow a horn in the month, || In the new moon, at the day of our festival, 4 For it is a statute to Israel, || An ordinance of the God of Jacob. 5 He has placed it—a testimony on Joseph, || In his going out over the land of Egypt. A lip, I have not known—I hear. 6 I turned aside his shoulder from the burden, || His hands pass over from the basket. 7 In distress you have called and I deliver you, || I answer you in the secret place of thunder, || I try you by the waters of Meribah. Selah. 8 Hear, O My people, and I testify to you, || O Israel, if you listen to me: 9 There is not in you a strange god, || And you do not bow yourself to a strange god. 10 I am your God YHWH, || Who brings you up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge your mouth, and I fill it. 11 But My people did not listen to My voice, || And Israel has not consented to Me. 12 And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, || They walk in their own counsels. 13 O that My people were listening to Me, || Israel would walk in My ways. 14 As a little thing I cause their enemies to bow, || And I turn back My hand against their adversaries, 15 Those hating YHWH should have feigned obedience to Him, || And their time would last to a distant age. 16 He causes him to eat of the fat of wheat, || And I satisfy you with honey from a rock!