1Praise the LORD. Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good. His mercy lasts for ever.
2Who can tell the mighty acts of the LORD? Who can speak out all his praise?
3Blessed are those who keep justice, and the one who does righteousness at all times.
4Remember me, LORD, with the favour you show to your people. Come to me with your salvation.
5Then I will see the good of your chosen ones. I will rejoice with the gladness of your nation. I will glory along with your inheritance.
6We have sinned, as our fathers did. We have done wrong. We have acted wickedly.
7Our fathers did not understand your wonders in Egypt. They did not remember how many your mercies were. Instead they rebelled against him at the sea, at the Red Sea.
8Even so he saved them for his name's sake, to make his mighty power known.
9He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up. So he led them through the deep waters, as through a desert.
10He saved them from the hand of the one who hated them. He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
11The waters covered their enemies. Not one of them was left.
12Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.
13They soon forgot what he had done. They did not wait for his counsel.
14They were filled with greedy craving in the wilderness, and they tested God in the desert.
15He gave them what they asked for, but sent a wasting sickness into their soul.
17The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan. It covered the company of Abiram.
18A fire was lit among their company. The flame burned up the wicked.
19They made a calf at Horeb, and worshipped the metal image.
20So they exchanged their glory for the likeness of an ox that eats grass.
21They forgot God their saviour, who had done great things in Egypt,
23So he said that he would destroy them. But Moses, his chosen one, stood before him in the gap, to turn away his anger, so that he would not destroy them.
24Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They did not believe his word,
25but grumbled in their tents, and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.
26So he lifted up his hand against them, swearing to strike them down in the wilderness,
27to strike down their children among the nations too, and to scatter them through the lands.
28They joined themselves to Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
29So they stirred him to anger by what they did, and a plague broke out among them.
30Then Phinehas stood up and carried out judgment, and so the plague was stopped.
31That was counted to him as righteousness, through all generations for ever.
32They made him angry at the waters of strife as well, and because of them it went badly for Moses.
33For they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke rashly with his lips.
34They did not destroy the nations, as the LORD had commanded them.
35Instead they mixed with the nations, and learned their ways.
36They served their idols, which became a trap for them.
37Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
38They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.
39So they were made unclean by their own deeds, and were unfaithful in what they did.
40So the anger of the LORD burned against his people. He hated his own inheritance.
41He gave them into the hand of the nations. Those who hated them ruled over them.
42Their enemies crushed them too, and they were brought under their hand.
43Many times he rescued them. But they rebelled with their plans, and were brought low for their sin.
44Even so, he looked on their trouble when he heard their cry.
45He remembered his covenant for their sake, and relented, because his mercies were so many.
46He also made all those who carried them away captive feel pity for them.
47Save us, LORD our God, and gather us from among the nations, so that we may give thanks to your holy name, and triumph in your praise.
48Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, "Amen." Praise the LORD.