¹Praise the Lord;

Give thanks to the Lord,

For he is good,

For his kindness is age-abiding.

²Who can put the Lord's mighty deeds into words

Or express all his praiseworthiness?

³Happy are those who maintain justice

And he who acts righteously at all times.

⁴Remember me, O Lord,

In good pleasure towards your people;

Visit me with your salvation

⁵So as to see the goodness towards your elect,

To rejoice in the joy of your nation

And to boast with your inheritance.

⁶We have sinned,

Along with our fathers.

We have committed iniquity;

We have acted wickedly.

⁷Our fathers in Egypt did not profit from the instruction of your wonders.

They did not remember the abundance of your kind deeds,

And they rebelled at the sea

– At the Red Sea.

⁸But he saved them for his name's sake,

To make his might known.

⁹So he rebuked the Red Sea,

And it dried up,

And he led them through the depths

As though through the desert.

¹⁰Then he saved them from the hand of him who hated them,

And he redeemed them from the grip of the enemy.

¹¹But the water covered their adversaries;

Not one of them remained.

¹²Then they believed his words,

And they sang his praise.

¹³But they quickly forgot his works,

And they did not wait for his counsel.

¹⁴And they had a great longing in the desert,

And they tempted God in the wasteland.

¹⁵Then he granted them their request.

Then he sent leanness to their condition.

¹⁶At this they envied Moses in the camp,

And Aaron the Lord's holy man.

¹⁷The earth opened and swallowed Dathan,

And it smothered the confederacy of Abiram.

¹⁸And a fire burned in their confederacy;

A flame set the wicked on fire.

¹⁹They made a calf at Horeb,

And they worshipped a cast image.

²⁰And they exchanged my glory

For the likeness of an ox that eats grass.

²¹They forgot God their saviour,

Who performed great deeds in Egypt,

²²Wonders in the land of Ham

And awesome deeds at the Red Sea.

²³Then he declared that he would have destroyed them

If Moses his chosen one had not stood at the breach before him

To turn away his fury

From ravaging them.

²⁴And they rejected the pleasant land;

They did not believe his word.

²⁵And they grumbled in their tents;

They did not listen to the voice of the Lord.

²⁶Then he raised his hand against them

To strike them down in the desert

²⁷And to strike their seed down among the Gentiles

And to scatter them among the various countries.

²⁸Then they yoked themselves to Baal-Peor,

And they ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

²⁹And they provoked him to anger by their deeds,

So that a plague broke out among them.

³⁰But Phinehas stood up and acted as judge,

So the plague was arrested.

³¹And it was accounted to him as righteousness

For generation after generation age-abidingly.

³²Then they angered him at the waters of Meribah,

And it was hurtful to Moses because of them,

³³For they resisted his spirit.

Then he spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴They did not destroy the peoples

Which the Lord had told them to.

³⁵Then they mingled with the Gentiles,

And they learned their practices,

³⁶And they served their idols,

Which became a snare to them.

³⁷Then they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

³⁸So they shed innocent blood

– The blood of their sons and their daughters

Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan –

And the land was defiled with blood.

³⁹So they became unclean through their practices,

And they prostituted themselves through their actions.

⁴⁰And the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people,

And he loathed his own inheritance.

⁴¹And he delivered them into the hands of Gentiles,

And those who hated them

Ruled over them.

⁴²And their enemies oppressed them,

And they were brought low under their power.

⁴³Many were the times that he delivered them,

But they rebelled in their counsel,

And they degenerated in their iniquity.

⁴⁴But he had an eye to their adversity

When he heard their crying out.

⁴⁵He remembered his covenant which they had,

And he had compassion

According to the abundance of his kindness.

⁴⁶Then he made them objects of mercy

Before all those who had held them in captivity.

⁴⁷Save us, O Lord our God,

And gather us out of the Gentiles

To give thanks to your holy name

And to exult in praise of you.

⁴⁸Blessed be the Lord God of Israel

From age to age,

And let all the people say,

“Amen, praise the Lord.”