Exultate Deo. An invitation to a solemn praising of God.

 1 Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for Asaph himself.  2 Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob.  3 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp.  4 Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your solemnity.  5 For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of Jacob.

[1] "For the winepresses": Torcularibus. It either signifies a musical instrument, or that this psalm was to be sung at the feast of the tabernacles after the gathering in of the vintage.

 6 He ordained it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the land of Egypt: he heard a tongue which he knew not.  7 He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets.  8 Thou calledst upon me in affliction, and I delivered thee: I heard thee in the secret place of tempest: I proved thee at the waters of contradiction.  9 Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me,  10 There shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god.

[8] "In the secret place of tempest": Heb., Of thunder. When thou soughtest to hide thyself from the tempest: or, when I came down to mount Sina, hidden from thy eyes in a storm of thunder.

 11 For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.  12 But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me.  13 So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.  14 If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:  15 I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them that troubled them.

 16 The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever.  17 And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.

[16] "Their time shall be for ever": Impenitent sinners shall suffer for ever.