1Praise 2the LORD! Oh agive thanks to the LORD, for He bis good; For cHis lovingkindness is everlasting.
2Who can speak of the amighty deeds of the LORD, Or can show forth all His praise?
3How blessed are those who keep 1justice, 2Who apractice righteousness at all times!
4Remember me, O LORD, in Your afavor 1toward Your people; Visit me with Your salvation,
5That I may see the aprosperity of Your chosen ones, That I may brejoice in the gladness of Your nation, That I may cglory with Your 1inheritance.
6aWe have sinned 1 blike our fathers, We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.
7Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your 1wonders; They adid not remember 2Your abundant kindnesses, But brebelled by the sea, at the 3Red Sea.
8Nevertheless He saved them afor the sake of His name, That He might bmake His power known.
9Thus He arebuked the 1Red Sea and it bdried up, And He cled them through the deeps, as through the wilderness.
10So He asaved them from the 1hand of the one who hated them, And bredeemed them from the 1hand of the enemy.
11aThe waters covered their adversaries; Not one of them was left.
12Then they abelieved His words; They bsang His praise.
13They quickly aforgot His works; They bdid not wait for His counsel,
14But acraved intensely in the wilderness, And 1 btempted God in the desert.
15So He agave them their request, But bsent a 1wasting disease among them.
16When they became aenvious of Moses in the camp, And of Aaron, the holy one of the LORD,
17The aearth opened and swallowed up Dathan, And engulfed the 1company of Abiram.
18And a afire blazed up in their 1company; The flame consumed the wicked.
19They amade a calf in Horeb And worshiped a molten image.
20Thus they aexchanged their glory For the image of an ox that eats grass.
21They aforgot God their Savior, Who had done bgreat things in Egypt,
221 aWonders in the land of Ham And awesome things by the 2Red Sea.
23Therefore aHe said that He would destroy them, Had not bMoses His chosen one stood in the breach before Him, To turn away His wrath from destroying them.
24Then they adespised the bpleasant land; They cdid not believe in His word,
25But agrumbled in their tents; They did not listen to the voice of the LORD.
26Therefore He 1 aswore to them That He would cast them down in the wilderness,
27And that He would acast their seed among the nations And bscatter them in the lands.
28They ajoined themselves also to 1Baal-peor, And ate bsacrifices offered to the dead.
29Thus they aprovoked Him to anger with their deeds, And the plague broke out among them.
30Then Phinehas astood up and interposed, And so the bplague was stayed.
31And it was areckoned to him for righteousness, To all generations forever.
32They also aprovoked Him to wrath at the waters of 1Meribah, So that it bwent hard with Moses on their account;
33Because they awere rebellious against 1His Spirit, He spoke rashly with his lips.
34They adid not destroy the peoples, As bthe LORD commanded them,
35But athey mingled with the nations And learned their 1practices,
36And aserved their idols, bWhich became a snare to them.
37They even asacrificed their sons and their daughters to the bdemons,
38And shed ainnocent blood, The blood of their bsons and their daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was cpolluted with the blood.
39Thus they became aunclean in their 1practices, And bplayed the harlot in their deeds.
40Therefore the aanger of the LORD was kindled against His people And He babhorred His 1 cinheritance.
41Then aHe gave them into the hand of the 1nations, And those who hated them ruled over them.
42Their enemies also aoppressed them, And they were subdued under their 1power.
43Many times He would adeliver them; They, however, were rebellious in their bcounsel, And so csank down in their iniquity.
44Nevertheless He looked upon their distress When He aheard their cry;
45And He aremembered His covenant for their sake, And 1 brelented caccording to the greatness of His lovingkindness.
46He also made them aobjects of compassion In the presence of all their captors.
47aSave us, O LORD our God, And bgather us from among the nations, To give thanks to Your holy name And 1 cglory in Your praise.
48aBlessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, From everlasting even to everlasting. And let all the people say, "Amen." 1Praise 2the LORD!