1Til korlederen: Brug et strengeinstrument.* En sang af Asaf.2Lovpris vor Gud, som giver os styrke, bryd ud i jubel for Israels Gud.3Syng til lyden af tamburiner, til skønne toner fra harper og lyrer.4Vædderhornet indvarsler højtiderne, både nymånefest og løvhyttefest.5Det er fester, som Gud har forordnet, de er beskrevet i Israels love.6Han gjorde det til en regel i Israel, da han førte os ud af Egypten. Jeg hørte en ukendt stemme sige til mig:*7„Jeg fjernede byrden fra din skulder, jeg befriede dig fra det hårde slid.8Du råbte til mig i din nød, og jeg frelste dig. Jeg talte til dig fra tordenskyen. Jeg prøvede din tro ved Meriba.9Lyt til mig, mit folk, for jeg advarer jer. Åh, Israel, ville I dog bare adlyde mig.10I må aldrig tilbede nogen anden gud eller bøje jer for et billede af en afgud,11for det var mig, jeres Herre og Gud, som førte jer ud af Egyptens land. Bed til mig, når I har brug for min hjælp, og I skal opleve, hvor god og gavmild jeg er.12Men mit folk nægtede at adlyde mig, Israel ville ikke have med mig at gøre.13Så lod jeg dem gå deres egne veje, og de gjorde ganske som de ville.14Bare mit folk dog ville adlyde mig, gid de ville følge mine befalinger.15Så ville jeg hurtigt besejre deres fjender, feje alle deres modstandere bort.16Alle fjenderne ville krybe sammen af skræk, det ville være slut med dem for altid.17Men jer ville jeg give den bedste hvede og mætte jer med honning fra klippen.”
English Standard Version
Oh, That My People Would Listen to Me
1To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith.* Of Asaph. Sing 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.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.”
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