| King James Bible | New Living Translation |
| 1To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. | 1Sing praises to God, our strength. Sing to the God of Jacob. |
| 2Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. | 2Sing! Beat the tambourine. Play the sweet lyre and the harp. |
| 3Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. | 3Blow the ram’s horn at new moon, and again at full moon to call a festival! |
| 4For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. | 4For this is required by the decrees of Israel; it is a regulation of the God of Jacob. |
| 5This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not. | 5He made it a law for Israel when he attacked Egypt to set us free. I heard an unknown voice say, |
| 6I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots. | 6“Now I will take the load from your shoulders; I will free your hands from their heavy tasks. |
| 7Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah. | 7You cried to me in trouble, and I saved you; I answered out of the thundercloud and tested your faith when there was no water at Meribah. Interlude |
| 8Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; | 8“Listen to me, O my people, while I give you stern warnings. O Israel, if you would only listen to me! |
| 9There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. | 9You must never have a foreign god; you must not bow down before a false god. |
| 10I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. | 10For it was I, the LORD your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it with good things. |
| 11But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. | 11“But no, my people wouldn’t listen. Israel did not want me around. |
| 12So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels. | 12So I let them follow their own stubborn desires, living according to their own ideas. |
| 13Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! | 13Oh, that my people would listen to me! Oh, that Israel would follow me, walking in my paths! |
| 14I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. | 14How quickly I would then subdue their enemies! How soon my hands would be upon their foes! |
| 15The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. | 15Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him; they would be doomed forever. |
| 16He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. | 16But I would feed you with the finest wheat. I would satisfy you with wild honey from the rock.” |
| King James Bible, text courtesy of BibleProtector.com. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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