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¹ Hallelujah. ² Who can express the mighty acts of the LORD, or make all His praise to be heard?³ Happy are they that keep justice, that do righteousness at all times.⁴ Remember me, O LORD, when Thou favourest Thy people; O think of me at Thy salvation;⁵ That I may behold the prosperity of Thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of Thy nation,

⁶ We have sinned with our fathers, we have done iniquitously, we have dealt wickedly.⁷ Our fathers in Egypt gave no heed unto Thy wonders; {N}but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.⁸ Nevertheless He saved them for His name's sake, that He might make His mighty power to be known.⁹ And He rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up; and He led them through the depths, 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 adversaries; 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 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tried God in the desert.¹⁵ And He gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.¹⁶ They were jealous also of Moses in the camp, and of Aaron the holy one of the LORD.¹⁷ The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.¹⁸ And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped a molten image.²⁰ Thus they exchanged their glory for the likeness 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 Therefore He said that He would destroy them, {N}to turn back His wrath, lest He should destroy them.²⁴ Moreover, they scorned the desirable land, they believed not His word;²⁵ And they murmured in their tents, they hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.²⁶ Therefore He swore concerning them, that He would overthrow them in the wilderness;²⁷ And that He would cast out their seed among the nations, and scatter them in the lands.²⁸ They joined themselves also unto Baal of Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.²⁹ Thus they provoked Him with their doings, and the plague broke in upon them.³⁰ Then stood up Phinehas, and wrought judgment, and so the plague was stayed.³¹ And that was counted unto him for righteousness, unto all generations for ever.³² They angered Him also at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses because of them;³³ For they embittered his spirit, and he spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴ They did not destroy the peoples, as the LORD commanded them;³⁵ But mingled themselves with the nations, and learned their works;³⁶ And they served their idols, which became a snare unto them;³⁷ Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,³⁸ And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; ³⁹ Thus were they defiled with their works, and went astray in their doings.⁴⁰ Therefore was the wrath of the LORD 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 Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were subdued under their hand.⁴³ Many times did He deliver them; ⁴⁴ Nevertheless He looked upon their distress, when He heard their cry;⁴⁵ And He remembered for them His covenant, and repented according to the multitude of His mercies.⁴⁶ He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captive.⁴⁷ Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the nations, ⁴⁸ Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting, {N}Hallelujah.