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Remember Me, O Yahweh

^1 (F1)Praise Yah!
Oh ^(C1)give thanks to Yahweh, for He ^(C2)is good;
For ^(C3)His lovingkindness endures forever.

² Who can speak of the ^(C1)mighty deeds of Yahweh,
Or can make all His praise to be heard?

³ How blessed are those who keep ^(F1)justice,
^(F2)And he who ^(C1)does righteousness at all times!

⁴ Remember me, O Yahweh, in Your ^(C1)favor ^(F1)toward Your people;
Visit me with Your salvation,

⁵ That I may see the ^(C1)goodness of Your chosen ones,
That I may ^(C2)rejoice in the gladness of Your nation,
That I may ^(C3)boast with Your ^(F1)inheritance.

^6 (C1)We have sinned ^(C2)with our fathers,
We have committed iniquity, we have acted wickedly.

⁷ Our fathers in Egypt did not consider Your wondrous deeds;
They ^(C1)did not remember Your abundant lovingkindnesses,
But they ^(C2)rebelled by the sea, at the ^(F1)Red Sea.

⁸ Yet He saved them ^(C1)for the sake of His name,
That He might ^(C2)make His might known.

⁹ Thus He ^(C1)rebuked the ^(F1)Red Sea and it ^(C2)dried up,
And He ^(C3)led them through the deeps, as through the wilderness.

¹⁰ So He ^(C1)saved them from the ^(F1)hand of the one who hated them,
And ^(C2)redeemed them from the ^(F1)hand of the enemy.

^11 (C1)The waters covered their adversaries;
Not one of them was left.

¹² Then they ^(C1)believed His words;
They ^(C2)sang His praise.

¹³ They quickly ^(C1)forgot His works;
They ^(C2)did not wait for His counsel,

¹⁴ But ^(C1)craved intensely in the wilderness,
And ^(C2)put God to the test in the wasteland.

¹⁵ So He ^(C1)gave them their request,
But ^(C2)sent a ^(F1)wasting disease against their lives.

¹⁶ Then they became ^(C1)envious of Moses in the camp,
And of Aaron, the holy one of Yahweh,

¹⁷ The ^(C1)earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
And covered up the ^(F1)company of Abiram.

¹⁸ And a ^(C1)fire burned up in their company;
The flame consumed the wicked.

¹⁹ They ^(C1)made a calf in Horeb
And worshiped a molten image.

²⁰ Thus they ^(C1)exchanged their glory
For the image of an ox that eats grass.

²¹ They ^(C1)forgot God their Savior,
Who had done ^(C2)great things in Egypt,

^22 (C1)Wondrous deeds in the land of Ham
And awesome things by the ^(F1)Red Sea.

²³ Therefore ^(C1)He said that He would destroy them,
Had not ^(C2)Moses His chosen one stood in the breach before Him,
To turn away His wrath from ^(F1)eradicating them.

²⁴ Then they ^(C1)despised the ^(C2)pleasant land;
They ^(C3)did not believe in His word,

²⁵ But ^(C1)grumbled in their tents;
They did not listen to the voice of Yahweh.

²⁶ So He ^(F1)(C1)swore to them
To make them fall in the wilderness,

²⁷ And to ^(C1)make their seed fall among the nations
And to ^(C2)scatter them in the lands.

²⁸ They then ^(C1)joined themselves to ^(F1)Baal-peor,
And ate ^(C2)sacrifices offered to the dead.

²⁹ Thus they ^(C1)provoked Him to anger with their actions,
And the plague broke out among them.

³⁰ Then Phinehas ^(C1)stood up and interceded,
And so the ^(C2)plague was checked.

³¹ And it was ^(C1)counted to him for righteousness,
From generation to generation forever.

³² They also ^(C1)provoked Him to wrath at the waters of ^(F1)Meribah,
So that it ^(C2)went badly with Moses on their account;

³³ Because they ^(C1)were rebellious against ^(F1)His Spirit,
He spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴ They ^(C1)did not destroy the peoples,
As ^(C2)Yahweh commanded them,

³⁵ But ^(C1)they mingled with the nations
And learned their works,

³⁶ And ^(C1)served their idols,
^(C2)Which became a snare to them.

³⁷ They ^(C1)sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the ^(C2)demons,

³⁸ And they shed ^(C1)innocent blood,
The blood of their ^(C2)sons and their daughters,
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
And the land was ^(C3)polluted with the blood.

³⁹ Thus they became ^(C1)unclean in their works,
And ^(C2)played the harlot in their actions.

⁴⁰ So the ^(C1)anger of Yahweh was kindled against His people
And He ^(C2)abhorred His ^(F1)(C3)inheritance.

⁴¹ Then ^(C1)He gave them into the hand of the ^(F1)nations,
And those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴² Their enemies ^(C1)oppressed them,
And they were subdued under their hand.

⁴³ Many times He would ^(C1)deliver them;
But they were rebellious in their ^(C2)counsel,
And so they ^(C3)sank down in their iniquity.

⁴⁴ Nevertheless He looked upon their distress
When He ^(C1)heard their cry of lamentation;

⁴⁵ And He ^(C1)remembered for them His covenant,
And ^(F1)(C2)relented ^(C3)according to the abundance of His lovingkindness.

⁴⁶ He also made them ^(C1)objects of compassion
In the presence of all their captors.

^47 (C1)Save us, O Yahweh our God,
And ^(C2)gather us from among the nations,
To give thanks to Your holy name
And ^(C3)revel in Your praise.

^48 (C1)Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,
From everlasting to everlasting.
And let all the people say, "Amen."
^(F1)Praise Yah!