Dual Panel1PRAISE THE Lord! (Hallelujah!) O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy {and} loving-kindness endure forever!
2Who can put into words {and} tell the mighty deeds of the Lord? {Or} who can show forth all the praise [that is due Him]?
3Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are those who observe justice [treating others fairly] {and} who do right {and} are in right standing with God at all times.
4[Earnestly] remember me, O Lord, when You favor Your people! O visit me also when You deliver them, {and} grant me Your salvation!--
5That I may see {and} share the welfare of Your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, that I may glory with Your heritage.
6We have sinned, as did also our fathers; we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
7Our fathers in Egypt understood not nor appreciated Your miracles; they did not [earnestly] remember the multitude of Your mercies nor imprint Your loving-kindness [on their hearts], but they were rebellious {and} provoked the Lord at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
8Nevertheless He saved them for His name's sake [to prove the righteousness of the divine character], that He might make His mighty power known.
9He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it dried up; so He led them through the depths as through a pastureland.
10And He saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the [Egyptian] enemy.
11And the waters covered their adversaries; not one of them was left.
12Then [Israel] believed His words [trusting in, relying on them]; they sang His praise.
13But they hastily forgot His works; they did not [earnestly] wait for His plans [to develop] regarding them,
14But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness and tempted {and} tried to restrain God [with their insistent desires] in the desert.
15And He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their souls {and} [thinned their numbers by] disease and death.
16They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron [the high priest], the holy one of the Lord.
17Therefore the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and closed over the company of Abiram.
18And a fire broke out in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
19They made a calf in Horeb and worshiped a molten image.
20Thus they exchanged Him Who was their Glory for the image of an ox that eats grass [they traded their Honor for the image of a calf]!
21They forgot God their Savior, Who had done such great things in Egypt,
22Wonders {and} miracles in the land of Ham, dreadful {and} awesome things at the Red Sea.
23Therefore He said He would destroy them. [And He would have done so] had not Moses, His chosen one, stepped into the breach before Him to turn away His threatening wrath.
24Then they spurned {and} despised the pleasant {and} desirable land [Canaan]; they believed not His word [neither trusting in, relying on, nor holding to it];
25But they murmured in their tents {and} hearkened not to the voice of the Lord.
26Therefore He lifted up His hand [as if taking an oath] against them, that He would cause them to fall in the wilderness,
27Cast out their descendants among the nations, and scatter them in the lands [of the earth].
28They joined themselves also to the [idol] Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices [offered] to the lifeless [gods].
29Thus they provoked the Lord to anger with their practices, and a plague broke out among them.
30Then stood up Phinehas [the priest] and executed judgment, and so the plague was stayed.
31And that was credited to him for righteousness (right doing and right standing with God) to all generations forever.
32They angered the Lord also at the waters of Meribah, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes;
33For they provoked [Moses'] spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.
34They did not destroy the [heathen] nations as the Lord commanded them,
35But mingled themselves with the [idolatrous] nations and learned their ways {and} works
36And served their idols, which were a snare to them.
37Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons
38And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with their blood.
39Thus were they defiled by their own works, and they played the harlot {and} practiced idolatry with their own deeds [of idolatrous rites].
40Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against His people, insomuch that He abhorred {and} rejected His own heritage.
41And He gave them into the hands of the [heathen] nations, and they that hated them ruled over them.
42Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under the hand of their foes.
43Many times did [God] deliver them, but they were rebellious in their counsel and sank low through their iniquity.
44Nevertheless He regarded their distress when He heard their cry;
45And He [earnestly] remembered for their sake His covenant and relented their sentence of evil [comforting and easing Himself] according to the abundance of His mercy {and} loving-kindness [when they cried out to Him].
46He also caused [Israel] to find sympathy among those who had carried them away captive.
47Deliver us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name {and} glory in praising You.
48Blessed (affectionately and gratefully praised) be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! And let all the people say, Amen! Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)