Focused Passage
Festival Praise, Covenant Hearing, and the God Who Longs to Satisfy His People
The psalm moves from loud festival summons, to covenant statute and exodus memory, into a first-person divine oracle recalling deliverance, warning against foreign gods, exposing Israel's refusal, and ending with God's yearning promise of victory and satisfaction if His people would listen and walk in His ways.
Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources
For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. Of Asaph.
1Sing for joy to God our strength; make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.
2Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.
3Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and at the full moon on the day of our Feast.
4For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5He ordained it as a testimony for Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt, where I heard an unfamiliar language:
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