The owner's manual.

To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. Of Asaph.

¹Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!

²Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp.

³Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.

⁴For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob.

⁵He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known:

⁶“I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.

⁷In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah

⁸Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!

⁹There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.

¹⁰I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

¹¹“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me.

¹²So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.

¹³Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

¹⁴I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes.

¹⁵Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last forever.

¹⁶But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”