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¹ Praise Jehovah! Give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good; for His mercy endures forever.² Who can utter the mighty works of Jehovah, or cause all His praise to be heard?³ Blessed are those keeping judgment, he who does righteousness in every season.⁴ Remember me, Jehovah, with the favor of Your people; O visit me with Your salvation,⁵ to see the good of joy, Your elect to rejoice in the joy of Your nation, to glory with Your inheritance.

⁶ We have sinned with our fathers; we did iniquity; we did evil.⁷ Our fathers did not ponder Your wonders in Egypt; they did not remember Your many mercies, and they rebelled at the sea, at the Sea of Reeds.⁸ But He saved them for His name's sake, to make known His might.⁹ And He rebuked the Sea of Reeds; and it dried up; and He made them go through the depths as through the wilderness.¹⁰ And He saved them from the hand of the one hating, and ransomed him from the hand of the enemy;¹¹ and waters covered their enemies; not one of them was left.¹² Then they believed His Words; they sang His praise.

¹³ They hurried and forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel;¹⁴ and they greedily lusted in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert.¹⁵ And He gave their request to them, but sent wasting into their soul.¹⁶ And they were jealous of Moses the saint of Jehovah in the camp of Aaron;¹⁷ the earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; and covered the company of Abiram.¹⁸ And a fire burned in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb, and fell down before the casted image;²⁰ and they changed their Glory into the image of an ox eating grass.²¹ They forgot God their deliverer, doing great things in Egypt;²² wonders in the land of Ham, awesome things by the Sea of Reeds.²³ And He said to destroy them; except Moses His elect had stood before Him in the breach, to turn away His wrath from destroying them .²⁴ They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His Word.²⁵ And they murmured in their tents, not listening to the voice of Jehovah;²⁶ and He lifted up His hand to them, to make them fall in the wilderness;²⁷ to make their seed fall also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.²⁸ They also were joined to Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the ones who died;²⁹ and provoked Him with their deeds; and a plague broke out among them.³⁰ Then Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was stayed;³¹ and it was counted to him for righteousness to generation and generation, forever.³² And they angered Him at The Waters of Provocation, and it went ill for Moses because of them;³³ for they provoked his spirit, and he spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴ They did not destroy the peoples, as Jehovah said to them,³⁵ but mingled with the nations, and learned their works.³⁶ And they served their idols, and they became a snare to them.³⁷ Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons;³⁸ and they shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. And the land was polluted with the blood.³⁹ And they were unclean with their works, and went whoring in their acts.⁴⁰ And the anger of Jehovah glowed against His people; and He detested His inheritance.⁴¹ And He gave them into the hand of the nations; and those who hated them ruled over them.⁴² And their enemies oppressed them and they were humbled under their hand.⁴³ Many times He delivered them, but they rebelled in their plans, and sank in their iniquities.⁴⁴ And He looked on their affliction when He heard their shout;⁴⁵ He remembered His covenant for them, and breathed a sigh, according to His many mercies.⁴⁶ And He gave them to tender mercies before all their captors.⁴⁷ Save us, O Jehovah our God, and gather us from the nations, to give thanks to Your holy name, to exult in Your praise.⁴⁸ Blessed is Jehovah God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting. And let all the people say, Amen! Praise Jehovah!