1. Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm of Asaph himself.
2. Exult before God our helper. Sing joyfully to the God of Jacob.
3. Take up a psalm, and bring forth the timbrel: a pleasing Psalter with stringed instruments.
4. Sound the trumpet at the new moon, on the noteworthy day of your solemnity,
5. for it is a precept in Israel and a judgment for the God of Jacob.
6. He set it as a testimony with Joseph, when he went out of the land of Egypt. He heard a tongue that he did not know.
7. He turned the burdens away from his back. His hands had been a slave to baskets.
8. You called upon me in tribulation, and I freed you. I heard you within the hidden tempest. I tested you with waters of contradiction.