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¹ Hallelujah! Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever.

² Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah? [who] can shew forth all his praise?

³ Blessed are they that keep justice, [and] he that doeth righteousness at all times.

⁴ Remember me, O Jehovah, with [thy] favour toward thy people; visit me with thy salvation:

⁵ That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the joy of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.

⁶ We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

⁷ Our fathers in Egypt considered not thy wondrous works; they remembered not the multitude of thy loving-kindnesses; but they rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea.

⁸ Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his might.

⁹ And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; and he led them through the deeps as through a wilderness.

¹⁰ And he saved them from the hand of him that hated [them], and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹ And the waters covered their oppressors: there was not one of them left.

¹² Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.

¹³ They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:

¹⁴ And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

¹⁵ Then he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.

¹⁶ And they envied Moses in the camp, [and] Aaron, the saint of Jehovah.

¹⁷ The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram;

¹⁸ And fire was kindled in their company; a flame burned up the wicked.

¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb, and did homage to a molten image;

²⁰ And they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

²¹ They forgot God their Saviour, who had done great things in Egypt,

²² Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.

²³ And he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the breach, to turn away his fury, lest he should destroy [them].

²⁴ And they despised the pleasant land; they believed not his word,

²⁵ But murmured in their tents: they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah.

²⁶ And he lifted up his hand to them, that he would make them fall in the wilderness;

²⁷ And that he would make their seed fall among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.

²⁸ And they joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead;

²⁹ And they provoked [him] to anger with their doings; and a plague broke out among them.

³⁰ Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment, and the plague was stayed;

³¹ And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness, from generation to generation, for evermore.

³² And they moved him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account;

³³ For they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.

³⁴ They did not destroy the peoples, as Jehovah commanded them;

³⁵ But they mingled with the nations, and learned their works;

³⁶ And they served their idols; and they were a snare unto them:

³⁷ And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,

³⁸ And shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.

³⁹ And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings.

⁴⁰ Then was the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance;

⁴¹ And he gave them into the hand of the nations; and they that hated them ruled over them:

⁴² And their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

⁴³ Often did he deliver them; but as for them they provoked [him] by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquity.

⁴⁴ But he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry;

⁴⁵ And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses;

⁴⁶ And he caused them to find compassion of all those that had carried them captives.

⁴⁷ Save us, Jehovah our God, and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks unto thy holy name, [and] to triumph in thy praise.

⁴⁸ Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, from eternity and to eternity! And let all the people say, Amen! Hallelujah!