1Praise the everlasting. (Halleluya) O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is gracious, and his mercy endureth for ever.
2Who can express the noble acts of the LORD, or shew forth all his praise?
3Blessed are they that alway keep judgment, and do righteousness.
4Remember us, O LORD, according to the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit us with thy saving health.
5That we might see the pleasure of thy chosen, that we might rejoice in the gladness of thy people, and give thanks with thine inheritance.
6We have sinned with our fathers, we have done amiss, we have dealt wickedly.
7Our fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egypt, they kept not thy great goodness in remembrance: but were disobedient at the sea,(see) even at the reed sea.(see)
8Nevertheless, he helped them for his name's sake, that he might make his power to be known.
9He rebuked the reed sea,(see) and it was dried up: so he led them thorow the deep as in a wilderness.
10Thus he saved them from the hand of the hater, and delivered them from the hand of the enemy.
11As for those that troubled them, the waters overwhelmed them, there was not one of them left.
12Then believed they in his word, and sang praise unto him.
13But within a while they forgot his works, and would not abide his counsel.
14A lust came upon them in the wilderness, so that they tempted God in the desert.
15Yet he gave them their desire, and sent them enough at their wiles.
16They angered Moses in the tents, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.
17So the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the congregation of Abiram.
18The fire was kindled in their company, the flame brent up the ungodly.
19They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
20Thus they turned their(his) glory into the similitude of a calf, that eateth hay.
21They forgot God their Savior, which had done so great things in Egypt.
22wonderous works in the land of Ham, and fearful things in the reed sea.
23So he said he would have destroyed them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in that gap: to turn away his wrathful indignation, lest he should destroy them.
24Yea they thought scorn of that pleasant land, and gave no credence unto his word.
25But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.
26Then lift he up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness.
27To cast out their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
28They joined themselves unto Baal Peor, and ate the offering of the dead.
29Thus they provoked him unto anger with their own inventions, and the plague was great among them.
30Then stood up Phinehas, and executed justice, and so the plague ceased.
31And that was counted unto him for righteousness, among all posterities for evermore.
32They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that Moses was punished for their sakes.
33Because they provoked his spirit, and he told them plainly with his lips.
34Neither destroyed they the Heathen, as the LORD commanded them.
35But were mingled among the Heathen, and learned their works.
36In so much that they worshipped their images, which turned to their own decay.
37Yea they offered their sons and their daughters unto devils.
38And shed the innocent blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they offered unto the images of Canaan, so that the land was defiled with blood.
39Thus were they stained with their own works, and went awhoring with their own inventions.
40Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
41And gave them over into the hand of the Heathen, and they that hated them, were lords over them.
42Their enemies oppressed them, and had them in subjection.
43Many a time did he deliver them, but they provoked him with their own inventions, and were brought down for their wickedness.
44Nevertheless when he saw their adversity, he heard their complaint.
45He thought upon his covenant, and pitied them, according unto the multitude of his mercies.
46Yea he made all those that had led them away captive, to pity them.
47Deliver us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the Heathen: that we may give thanks unto thy holy name, and make our boast of thy praise.
48Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting and world without end, and let all people say: Amen, Amen. Praise the everlasting.(Halleluya.)