1Praise the LORD!
            Oh give thanks to the LORD, for He is good;
            For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

     2Who can speak of the mighty deeds of the LORD,
            Or can show forth all His praise?

     3How blessed are those who keep justice,
            Who practice righteousness at all times!

     4Remember me, O LORD, in Thy favor toward Thy people;
            Visit me with Thy salvation,

     5That I may see the prosperity of Thy chosen ones,
            That I may rejoice in the gladness of Thy nation,
            That I may glory with Thine inheritance.

     6We have sinned like our fathers,
            We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.

     7Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Thy wonders;
            They did not remember Thine abundant kindnesses,
            But rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.

     8Nevertheless He saved them for the sake of His name,
            That He might make His power known.

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

     10So He saved them from the hand of the one who hated them,
            And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

     11And the waters covered their adversaries;
            Not one of them was left.

     12Then they believed His words;
            They sang His praise.

     13They quickly forgot His works;
            They did not wait for His counsel,

     14But craved intensely in the wilderness,
            And tempted God in the desert.

     15So He gave them their request,
            But sent a wasting disease among them.

     16When they became envious of Moses in the camp,
            And of Aaron, the holy one of the LORD,

     17The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
            And engulfed the company of Abiram.

     18And a fire blazed up in their company;
            The flame consumed the wicked.

     19They made a calf in Horeb,
            And worshiped a molten image.

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

     21They forgot God their Savior,
            Who had done great things in Egypt,

     22Wonders in the land of Ham,
            And awesome things by the Red Sea.

     23Therefore He said that He would destroy them,
            Had not Moses His chosen one stood in the breach before Him,
            To turn away His wrath from destroying them.

     24Then they despised the pleasant land;
            They did not believe in His word,

     25But grumbled in their tents;
            They did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

     26Therefore He swore to them,
            That He would cast them down in the wilderness,

     27And that He would cast their seed among the nations,
            And scatter them in the lands.

     28They joined themselves also to Baal-peor,
            And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

     29Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds;
            And the plague broke out among them.

     30Then Phinehas stood up and interposed;
            And so the plague was stayed.

     31And it was reckoned to him for righteousness,
            To all generations forever.

     32They also provoked Him to wrath at the waters of Meribah,
            So that it went hard with Moses on their account;

     33Because they were rebellious against His Spirit,
            He spoke rashly with his lips.

     34They did not destroy the peoples,
            As the LORD commanded them,

     35But they mingled with the nations,
            And learned their practices,

     36And served their idols,
            Which became a snare to them.

     37They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons,

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

     39Thus they became unclean in their practices,
            And played the harlot in their deeds.

     40Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against His people,
            And He abhorred His inheritance.

     41Then He gave them into the hand of the nations;
            And those who hated them ruled over them.

     42Their enemies also oppressed them,
            And they were subdued under their power.

     43Many times He would deliver them;
            They, however, were rebellious in their counsel,
            And so sank down in their iniquity.

     44Nevertheless He looked upon their distress,
            When He heard their cry;

     45And He remembered His covenant for their sake,
            And relented according to the greatness of His lovingkindness.

     46He also made them objects of compassion
            In the presence of all their captors.

     47Save us, O LORD our God,
            And gather us from among the nations,
            To give thanks to Thy holy name,
            And glory in Thy praise.

     48Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel,
            From everlasting even to everlasting.
            And let all the people say, “Amen.”
            Praise the LORD!