1(For the one directing. On the gittis. Of Asaph)

2Sing with joy unto Elohim uzeinu (our strength);
make a joyful noise unto Elohei Ya'akov.

3Begin a song, and bring hither the tambourine,
the pleasant kinnor (harp) with the nevel (lyre).

4Blow the shofar at Rosh Chodesh,
at the full moon, on Yom Chageinu.

5For this was a chok for Yisroel,
and a mishpat of the Elohei Ya'akov.

6This He ordained in Yosef for an edut,
when He went out over Eretz Mitzrayim;
where a language of one not known did I hear.

7I removed his shekhem (shoulder) from the burden;
his hands were delivered from the basket.

8In tzoros thou calledst, and I delivered thee;
I answered thee in the seter ra'am (secret place of thunder);
I tested thee at the waters of Merivah. Selah

9Shema, O My people, and I will admonish thee;
O Yisroel, if thou wilt pay heed unto Me;

10There shall no el zar (strange, foreign g-d) be among thee;
neither shalt thou worship any el nechar (foreign g-d).

11I am Hashem Eloheicha
Who brought thee out of Eretz Mitzrayim;
open thy mouth wide, I will fill it.

12But My people would not pay heed to My voice;
and Yisroel would have none of Me.

13So I gave them up
unto their own heartsʼ sherirut (stubbornness);
and they walked in their own mo'atzot (counsels).

14Oh that My people had paid heed unto Me,
and Yisroel had walked in My ways!

15I should soon have subdued their oyevim
and turned My Yad (hand, power) against their adversaries.

16The haters of Hashem should have cringed before Him;
their et (time, fate, punishment) endures l'olam.

17He would have fed them also with the finest of the chittah (wheat);
and with devash (honey) from the Tzur would I have satisfied thee.