A Plea For Israel’s Repentance
1   Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2   Take a psalm, and bring here the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3   Blow the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4   For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
5   This 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.
6   I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were freed from the basket.
7   You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder: I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
8   Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto you: O Israel, if you will hearken unto me;
9   There shall no strange god be among you; neither shall you worship any foreign god.
10   I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt: open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11   But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would have none of me.
12   So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
13   Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
14   I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
15   The haters of the LORD should have submitted  themselves  unto  him:  and  their fate should have endured forever.
16   He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied you.