1 To God our strength come, sing aloud and shout for joy to Jacob's God! Come, play the timbrel as you sing, make harp and lyre with music ring: at new moon, let the trumpet blow, full moon and feast, his praises grow! 2 This is the law the Israel heard, the God of Jacob's binding word; a witness given to Joseph's tribes, established, spoken, and transcribed: when God has passed through Egypt's land they heard, but did not understand. 3 'I freed your shoulders from their load, your hands from clay and straw and wood; in your distress you called to me, I answered, and I set you free, in thunder spoke the words of life and proved you at the streams of Strife. 4 Then hear, my people, this command; O Israel, listen, and be warned: with you shall no new god be found, to no strange god shall you be bound: from Egypt I have brought you out; ask me you shall not go without! 5 But when my people closed their ears, and Israel refused to hear, I gave them over, heart and mind, to go the way their mood inclined: if only Israel would obey, my people follow in my way! 6 I then would crush their enemies and break these old hostilities, while those whom hate and fear consume would meet their long-awaited doom: I would have given you finest wheat, with honey from the rock to eat.'