1 Unto the end, for wine presses, a Psalm to Asaph himself.
1 Unto the end. For the winepresses. A psalm for Asaph himself.
2 Rejoice to God our helper: make Jubilation to the God of Jacob.
2 Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob.
3 Take ye Psalm, and give timbrel: pleasant Psalter with the harp.
3 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp.
4 Sound ye with trumpet in the new moon, in the notable day of your solemnity.
4 Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your solemnity.
5 Because it is a precept in Israel, and judgment to the God of Jacob.
5 For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of Jacob.
6 He put it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the Land of Ægypt: he heard a tongue which he knew not.
6 ¹He ordained it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the land of Egypt: he heard a tongue which he knew not.
7 He turned away his back from burdens: his hands served in baskets.
7 He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets.
8 In tribulation thou didst invocate me, and I heard thee: I heard thee in the secret of the tempest: I proved thee at the water of contradiction.
8 Thou calledst upon me in affliction, and I delivered thee: I heard thee in the secret place of tempest: ²I proved thee at the waters of contradiction.
9 Hear, o my people, and I will contest thee: Israel if thou wilt hear me.
9 Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me, 10 there shall be ³no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god.
10 There shall be no new god in thee, neither shalt thou adore a strange god.
10 there shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god.
11 For I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Ægypt: dilate thy mouth and I will fill it.
11 For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
12 And my People heard not my voice: and Israel attended not to me.
12 But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me.
13 And I let them alone, according to the desires of their heart, they shall go in their own inventions.
13 ⁴So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.
14 If my people had heard me, if Israel had walked in my ways:
14 ⁵If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:
15 I had for nothing perhaps humbled their enemies: and had laid my hand upon those that afflict them.
15 I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them that troubled them.
16 The enemies of our Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever.
16 The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be forever.
17 And he fed them of the fat of corn: and out of the rock with honey he filled them.
17 And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.