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Israel’s Rebelliousness and the Loʀᴅ’s Deliverances.
Oh
Agive thanks to the Loʀᴅ, for He
Bis good;
For
CHis lovingkindness is everlasting.
2 Who can speak of the
Amighty deeds of the Loʀᴅ,
Or can show forth all His praise?
3 How blessed are those who keep
1justice,
2Who
Apractice righteousness at all times!
4 Remember me, O Loʀᴅ, in
Your Afavor
1toward Your people;
Visit me with Your salvation,
5 That 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.
6 AWe have sinned
1Blike our fathers,
We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.
7 Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your
1wonders;
They
Adid not remember
2Your abundant kindnesses,
But
Brebelled by the sea, at the
3Red Sea.
8 Nevertheless He saved them
Afor the sake of His name,
That He might
Bmake His power known.
9 Thus He
Arebuked the
1Red Sea and it
Bdried up,
And He
Cled them through the deeps, as through the wilderness.
10 So He
Asaved them from the
1hand of the one who hated
them, And
Bredeemed them from the
1hand of the enemy.
11 AThe waters covered their adversaries;
Not one of them was left.
12 Then they
Abelieved His words;
13 They quickly
Aforgot His works;
They
Bdid not wait for His counsel,
14 But
Acraved intensely in the wilderness,
And
1Btempted God in the desert.
15 So He
Agave them their request,
But
Bsent a
1wasting disease among them.
16 When they became
Aenvious of Moses in the camp,
And of Aaron, the holy one of the Loʀᴅ,
17 The
Aearth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
And engulfed the
1company of Abiram.
18 And a
Afire blazed up in their
1company;
The flame consumed the wicked.
19 They
Amade a calf in Horeb
And worshiped a molten image.
20 Thus they
Aexchanged their glory
For the image of an ox that eats grass.
21 They
Aforgot God their Savior,
Who had done
Bgreat things in Egypt,
22 1AWonders in the land of Ham
And awesome things by the
2Red Sea.
23 Therefore
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.
24 Then they
Adespised the
Bpleasant land;
They
Cdid not believe in His word,
25 But
Agrumbled in their tents;
They did not listen to the voice of the Loʀᴅ.
26 Therefore He
1Aswore to them
That He would cast them down in the wilderness,
27 And that He would
Acast their seed among the nations
And
Bscatter them in the lands.
28 They
Ajoined themselves also to
1Baal-peor,
And ate
Bsacrifices offered to the dead.
29 Thus they
Aprovoked
Him to anger with their deeds,
And the plague broke out among them.
30 Then Phinehas
Astood up and interposed,
And so the
Bplague was stayed.
31 And it was
Areckoned to him for righteousness,
To all generations forever.
32 They also
Aprovoked
Him to wrath at the waters of
1Meribah,
So that it
Bwent hard with Moses on their account;
33 Because they
Awere rebellious against
1His Spirit,
He spoke rashly with his lips.
34 They
Adid not destroy the peoples,
As
Bthe Loʀᴅ commanded them,
35 But
Athey mingled with the nations
And learned their
1practices,
36 And
Aserved their idols,
BWhich became a snare to them.
37 They even
Asacrificed their sons and their daughters to the
Bdemons,
38 And 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.
39 Thus they became
Aunclean in their
1practices,
And
Bplayed the harlot in their deeds.
40 Therefore the
Aanger of the Loʀᴅ was kindled against His people
And He
Babhorred His
1Cinheritance.
41 Then
AHe gave them into the hand of the
1nations,
And those who hated them ruled over them.
42 Their enemies also
Aoppressed them,
And they were subdued under their
1power.
43 Many times He would
Adeliver them;
They, however, were rebellious in their
Bcounsel,
And
so Csank down in their iniquity.
44 Nevertheless He looked upon their distress
When He
Aheard their cry;
45 And He
Aremembered His covenant for their sake,
And
1Brelented
Caccording to the greatness of His lovingkindness.
46 He also made them
Aobjects of compassion
In the presence of all their captors.
47 ASave us, O Loʀᴅ our God,
And
Bgather us from among the nations,
To give thanks to Your holy name
And
1Cglory in Your praise.
48 ABlessed be the Loʀᴅ, the God of Israel,
From everlasting even to everlasting.
And let all the people say, “Amen.”