Daily Bible Reading

¹ Sing aloud to God our strength;
 shout for joy to the God of Jacob.
‍² Raise a song; sound the tambourine,
 the sweet lyre with the harp.
‍³ Blow the trumpet at the new moon,
 at the full moon, on our festal day.
‍⁴ For it is a statute for Israel,
 an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
‍⁵ He made it a decree in Joseph,
 when he went out over the land of Egypt.

I hear a voice I had not known:
‍⁶ “I relieved your shoulder of the burden;
 your hands were freed from the basket.
‍⁷ In distress you called, and I rescued you;
 I answered you in the secret place of thunder;
 I tested you at the waters of Meribah.  Selah

‍⁸ Hear, O my people, while I admonish you;
 O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
‍⁹ There shall be no strange god among you;
 you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
‍¹⁰ I 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.
‍¹² So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,
 to follow their own counsels.
‍¹³ O that my people would listen to me,
 that Israel would walk in my ways!
‍¹⁴ Then I would quickly subdue their enemies
 and turn my hand against their foes.
‍¹⁵ Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him,
 and their doom would last forever.
‍¹⁶ I would feed you with the finest of the wheat,
 and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”