1 Hallelujah! Give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good, For His loving-kindness [endures] for ever. 2 Who can speak forth the mighty deeds of Jehovah? [Who] can cause all His praise to be heard? 3 Blessed are they who observe right, He who does righteousness at all times. 4 Remember me, Jehovah, with the favour which Thou bearest to Thy people, Visit me with Thy salvation; 5 That I may look on the prosperity of Thy chosen ones, That I may joy in the joy of Thy nation, That I may triumph with Thine inheritance.
6 We have sinned with our fathers, We have done perversely, have done wickedly. 7 Our fathers in Egypt considered not Thy wonders, They remembered not the multitude of Thy loving-kindnesses, And rebelled at the Sea, by the Red Sea. 8 And He saved them for His name's sake, To make known His might; 9 And He rebuked the Red Sea and it was dried up, And He led them in the depths as in a wilderness; 10 And He saved them from the hand of the hater, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy; 11 And the waters covered their oppressors, Not one of them was left; 12 And they believed on His words, They sang His praise.
13 They hasted [and] forgot His works, They waited not for His counsel; 14 And they lusted a lust in the wilderness, And tempted God in the desert; 15 And He gave them what they asked for, And sent wasting sickness into their soul. 16 They were jealous against Moses in the camp, Against Aaron, the holy one of Jehovah. 17 The earth opened and swallowed Dathan, And covered the company of Abiram; 18 And fire blazed out on their company, Flame consumed the wicked ones.
19 They made a calf in Horeb, And bowed down to a molten image; 20 And they changed their Glory For the likeness of a grass-eating ox. 21 They forgot God their Saviour, Who did great things in Egypt, 22 Wonders in the land of Ham, Dread things by the Red Sea. 23 And He said that He would annihilate them, Had not Moses, His chosen one, stood in the breach confronting Him To turn His anger from destroying.
24 And they despised the delightsome land, They trusted not to His word; 25 And they murmured in their tents, They hearkened not to the voice of Jehovah; 26 And He lifted up His hand to them, [swearing] That He would make them fall in the wilderness, 27 And that He would make their seed fall among the nations, And scatter them in the lands.
28 And they yoked themselves to Baal-Peor, And ate the sacrifices of dead [gods]; 29 And they provoked Him by their doings, And a plague broke in upon them; 30 And Phinehas stood up and did judgment, And the plague was stayed; 31 And it was reckoned to him for righteousness, To generation after generation, for ever.
32 And they moved indignation at the waters of Meribah, And it fared ill with Moses on their account. 33 For they rebelled against [His] Spirit, And he spoke rashly with his lips. 34 They destroyed not the peoples [Of] whom Jehovah spoke to them; 35 And they mixed themselves with the nations And learned their works; 36 And they served their idols And they became to them a snare; 37 And they sacrificed their sons And their daughters to demons; 38 And they shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, And the land was profaned by bloodshed. 39 And they became unclean through their works, And committed whoredom through their doings.
40 And the anger of Jehovah kindled on His people, And He abhorred His inheritance; 41 And He gave them into the hand of the nations, And their haters lorded it over them; 42 And their enemies oppressed them, And they were bowed down under their hand. 43 Many times did He deliver them, And they--they rebelliously followed their own counsel, And were brought low through their iniquity; 44 And He looked on their distress When He heard their cry; 45 And He remembered for them His covenant, And repented according to the multitude of His loving-kindness, 46 And caused them to find compassion, In the presence of all their captors.