Sing aloud unto God our strength:
make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
² Take a psalm,
and bring hither the timbrel,
the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
³ Blow up 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 delivered from the pots.
⁷ Thou calledst in trouble,
and I delivered thee;
I answered thee in the secret place of thunder:
I proved thee at the waters of Meribah.
Selah.

⁸ Hear, O my people,
and I will testify unto thee: O Israel,
if thou wilt hearken unto me;
⁹ There shall no strange god be in thee;
neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
¹⁰ I am the LORD thy God,
which bought thee out of the land of Egypt:
open thy mouth wide,
and I will fill it.
¹¹ But my people would not hearken to my voice;
and Israel would 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:
but their time should have endured for ever.
¹⁶ He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat:
and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.

* NOTE: On Opening and Closing Comments in the Psalms.
[Some commentators take the Psalm in Habakkuk 3 to be a standard model for the Psalms.
Habakkuk's Psalm begins with the name of the composer (Habakkuk) and a musical notation ("upon Shigionoth").
It closes with a dedication or a "send to" notice ("To the chief singer on my stringed instruments").
I have arranged similar material, where it is found in the Psalter, in accord with the model in Habakkuk.]