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1 - Praise ye Jah, give thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age, <FI>is<Fi> His kindness.

2 - Who doth utter the mighty acts of Jehovah? Soundeth all His praise?

3 - O the happiness of those keeping judgment, Doing righteousness at all times.

4 - Remember me, O Jehovah, With the favour of Thy people, Look after me in Thy salvation.

5 - To look on the good of Thy chosen ones, To rejoice in the joy of Thy nation, To boast myself with Thine inheritance.

6 - We have sinned with our fathers, We have done perversely, we have done wickedly.

7 - Our fathers in Egypt, Have not considered wisely Thy wonders, They have not remembered The abundance of Thy kind acts, And provoke by the sea, at the sea of Suph.

8 - And He saveth them for His name's sake, To make known His might,

9 - And rebuketh the sea of Suph, and it is dried up, And causeth them to go Through depths as a wilderness.

10 - And He saveth them from the hand Of him who is hating, And redeemeth them from the hand of the enemy.

11 - And waters cover their adversaries, One of them hath not been left.

12 - And they believe in His words, they sing His praise,

13 - They have hasted--forgotten His works, They have not waited for His counsel.

14 - And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert.

15 - And He giveth to them their request, And sendeth leanness into their soul.

16 - And they are envious of Moses in the camp, Of Aaron, Jehovah's holy one.

17 - Earth openeth, and swalloweth up Dathan, And covereth over the company of Abiram.

18 - And fire burneth among their company, A flame setteth on fire the wicked.

19 - They make a calf in Horeb, And bow themselves to a molten image,

20 - And change their Honour Into the form of an ox eating herbs.

21 - They have forgotten God their saviour, The doer of great things in Egypt,

22 - Of wonderful things in the land of Ham, Of fearful things by the sea of Suph.

23 - And He saith to destroy them, Unless Moses, His chosen one, Had stood in the breach before Him, To turn back His wrath from destroying.

24 - And they kick against the desirable land, They have not given credence to His word.

25 - And they murmur in their tents, They have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah.

26 - And He lifteth up His hand to them, To cause them to fall in a wilderness,

27 - And to cause their seed to fall among nations, And to scatter them through lands.

28 - And they are coupled to Baal-Peor, And eat the sacrifices of the dead,

29 - And they provoke to anger by their actions, And a plague breaketh forth upon them,

30 - And Phinehas standeth, and executeth judgment, And the plague is restrained,

31 - And it is reckoned to him to righteousness, To all generations--unto the age.

32 - And they cause wrath by the waters of Meribah, And it is evil to Moses for their sakes,

33 - For they have provoked his spirit, And he speaketh wrongfully with his lips.

34 - They have not destroyed the peoples, As Jehovah had said to them,

35 - And mix themselves among nations, and learn their works,

36 - And serve their idols, And they are to them for a snare.

37 - And they sacrifice their sons And their daughters to destroyers,

38 - And they shed innocent blood--Blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they have sacrificed to idols of Canaan, And the land is profaned with blood.

39 - And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.

40 - And the anger of Jehovah Is kindled against His people, And He doth abominate His inheritance.

41 - And giveth them into the hand of nations, And those hating them rule over them,

42 - And their enemies oppress them, And they are humbled under their hand.

43 - Many times He doth deliver them, And they rebel in their counsel, And they are brought low in their iniquity.

44 - And He looketh on their distress When He heareth their cry,

45 - And remembereth for them His covenant, And is comforted, According to the abundance of His kindness.

46 - And He appointeth them for mercies Before all their captors.

47 - Save us, O Jehovah our God, and gather us from the nations, To give thanks to Thy holy name, To glory in Thy praise.

48 - Blessed <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age even unto the age. And all the people said, `Amen, praise Jah!'