✧Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is] good: for his mercy [endureth] for ever. ✧2Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? [who] can shew forth all his praise? ✧3Blessed [are] they that keep judgment, [and] he that doeth righteousness at all times. ✧4Remember me, O LORD, with the favour [that thou bearest unto] thy people: O visit me with thy salvation; ✧5That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance. ✧6We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly. ✧7Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked [him] at the sea, [even] at the Red sea. ✧8Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known. ✧9He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness. ✧10And he saved them from the hand of him that hated [them], and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. ✧11And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left. ✧12Then believed they his words; they sang his praise. ✧13They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel: ✧14But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. ✧15And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul. ✧16They envied Moses also in the camp, [and] Aaron the saint of the LORD. ✧17The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. ✧18And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked. ✧19They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image. ✧20Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass. ✧21They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt; ✧22Wondrous works in the land of Ham, [and] terrible things by the Red sea. ✧23Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy [them]. ✧24Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word: ✧25But murmured in their tents, [and] hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD. ✧26Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness: ✧27To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands. ✧28They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. ✧29Thus they provoked [him] to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them. ✧30Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and [so] the plague was stayed. ✧31And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore. ✧32They angered [him] also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes: ✧33Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips. ✧34They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them: ✧35But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works. ✧36And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them. ✧37Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, ✧38And shed innocent blood, [even] the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood. ✧39Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions. ✧40Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance. ✧41And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them. ✧42Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand. ✧43Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked [him] with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity. ✧44Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry: ✧45And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies. ✧46He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives. ✧47Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, [and] to triumph in thy praise. ✧48Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.