1Sing songs to praise God, who enables us to be strong when we fight our enemies;
2Start playing the music, and beat the tambourines,
3Blow the trumpets during the festival to celebrate each new moon
4Do that because that is a law for us Israeli people;
5He commanded us Israeli people to obey it when he punished the people of Egypt.
6“After the rulers of Egypt forced you Israelis to work as slaves,
7When you were greatly distressed, you called out to me, and I rescued you;
8You who are my people, listen while I warn you!
9You must not have any idols of other gods among you;
10I am Yahweh, your God;
11But my people would not listen to me [SYN];
12So even though they were very stubborn,
13I wish that my people would listen to me,
14If they did that, I would quickly defeat their enemies;
15Then all those who hate me would ◄cringe before/bow down to► me,
16But I would give you Israelis very good wheat/grain,