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¹ Praise ye Yah, Give ye thanks to Yahweh - For he is good, For age-abiding, is his lovingkindness.² Who can relate the mighty deeds of Yahweh? can cause to be heard, all his praise?³ How happy! They who observe justice, He that executeth righteousness at all times.⁴ Remember me, O Yahweh, when thou acceptest thy people, Visit me, with thy salvation;⁵ That I may look upon the welfare 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 acted perversely, we have committed lawlessness;⁷ Our fathers, in Egypt, understood not thy wonders, They remembered not the abounding of thy lovingkindnesses, but rebelled by the sea - at the Red Sea.⁸ Yet he saved them, for the sake of his Name, to make known his mighty power;⁹ So he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up, And he led them through deeps, as pasture-land;¹⁰ And saved them from the hand of one full of hatred, And redeemed them out of the hand of the foe;¹¹ So the waters covered their adversaries, Not one from among them, was left.¹² They believed therefore in his words, They sang his praise.

¹³ Soon forgat they his works, - They waited not for his counsel;¹⁴ But lusted a lust in the desert, and tested GOD in the waste.¹⁵ So he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.¹⁶ And they became jealous of Moses in the camp, - of Aaron the holy one of Yahweh;¹⁷ The earth opened and engulfed Dathan, and covered up the assembly of Abiram;¹⁸ Then was kindled a fire in their assembly, - a flame, consumed the lawless ones.¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb, - and bowed down to a molten image;²⁰ Thus changed they my glory, for the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.²¹ They forgat GOD their saviour, who had done great things in Egypt:²² Wonders in the land of Ham, Terrible things by the Red Sea.²³ Then would he have bidden to destroy them, - had not Moses his chosen, stood in the breach before him, To turn back his wrath from destroying.²⁴ And they refused the delightful land, They believed not his word;²⁵ But murmured in their tents, - They hearkened note unto the voice of Yahweh.²⁶ So he lifted up his hand unto them, that he would let them fall in the desert;²⁷ And would disperse their seed among the nations, and would scatter them throughout the lands.²⁸ Yet they let themselves be bound to Baal-peor, - and did eat sacrifices to the dead:²⁹ So they provoked to anger by their doings, and a plague, made a breach among them.³⁰ Then stood up Phinehas, and interposed, and stayed was the plague:³¹ So it was counted unto him, for righteousness, To generation after generation, unto times age abiding.³² And they provoked by the waters of Meribah, - And it fared ill with Moses, for their sakes;³³ For they embittered his spirit, and he spake rashly with his lips.

³⁴ They destroyed not the peoples of which Yahweh had spoken to them;³⁵ But had fellowship with the nations, and learned their doings;³⁶ Yea they served their idols, and they became to them a snare:³⁷ Yea they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to mischievous demons;³⁸ And poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, And the land was polluted with blood-shed;³⁹ And they became unclean by their works, and became unchaste in their doings.⁴⁰ Then was kindled the anger of Yahweh with his people, and he abhorred his own inheritance.⁴¹ So he delivered them up into the hand of the nations, And they who hated them, had dominion over them;⁴² And their enemies oppressed them, And they were bowed down under their hand.⁴³ Many times, did he rescue them, - But, they, rebelled by their counsel, and sank low in their iniquity.⁴⁴ Then looked he on the distress which befell them, - when he heard their loud cry;⁴⁵ Then remembered he, for them, his covenant, and was moved to pity, according to the abounding of his lovingkindnesses;⁴⁶ And granted them compassion before all their captors.⁴⁷ Save us, O Yahweh our God, and gather us from among the nations, That we may give thanks unto thy holy Name, That we may triumph aloud in thy praise.⁴⁸ Blessed be Yahweh, God of Israel, from one age even unto another, And all the people, shall say, Amen! Praise ye Yah!