Sing loud to God our strength, with joy

Verse 1

Sing loud to God our strength; with joy to Jacob's God do sing. Take up a psalm, the pleasant harp, timbrel and psalt'ry bring. Blow trumpets at new-moon, what day our feast appointed is: For charge to Isr'el, and a law of Jacob's God was this.

Verse 2

To Joseph this a testimony he made, when Egypt land He traveled through, where speech I heard I did not understand. His shoulder I from burdens took, his hands from pots did free. Thou didst in trouble on me call, and I delivered thee:

Verse 3

In secret place of thundering I did thee answer make; And at the streams of Meribah of thee a proof did take. O thou, my people, give an ear, I'll testify to thee; To thee, O Isr'el, if thou wilt but hearken unto me.

Verse 4

In midst of thee there shall not be any strange god at all; Nor unto any god unknown thou bowing down shalt fall. I am the Lord thy God, which did from Egypt land thee guide; I'll fill thy mouth abundantly, do thou it open wide.

Verse 5

But yet my people to my voice would not attentive be; And ev'n my chosen Israel he would have none of me. So to the lust of their own hearts I them deliverèd; And then in counsels of their own they vainly wanderèd.

Verse 6

O that my people had me heard, Isr'el my ways had chose! I had their en'mies soon subdued, my hand turned on their foes. The haters of the Lord to him submission should have feigned; But as for them, their time should have for evermore remained.

Verse 7

He should have also fed them with the finest of the wheat; Of honey from the rock thy fill I should have made thee eat.