¹Praise Yahweh! Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loyal love is forever.

²Who can speak the mighty deeds of Yahweh, or make all his praise heard?

³Blessed are those who keep justice, who do righteousness at all times.

⁴Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor of your people; attend to me with your deliverance,

⁵to see the good of your chosen ones, to rejoice in the joy of your nation, to boast with your inheritance.

⁶We sinned along with our fathers; we perverted, we acted wickedly.

⁷Our fathers in Egypt did not consider your wonders; they did not remember the abundance of your loyal love, and rebelled at the sea, at the Sea of Reeds.

⁸He saved them for the sake of his name, to make known his might.

⁹He rebuked the Sea of Reeds, and it dried up; he led them through the deeps as through a wilderness.

¹⁰He saved them from the hand of the one who hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹The waters covered their opponents; not one of them was left.

¹²Then they believed his words; they sang his praise.

¹³They hurried; they forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.

¹⁴They craved a craving in the wilderness, and put God to the test in the wasteland.

¹⁵He gave them what they asked, and sent wasting into their being.

¹⁶They were envious of Moses in the camp, and of Aaron, the holy one of Yahweh.

¹⁷The land opened wide and swallowed Dathan, and covered over the congregation of Abiram.

¹⁸Fire burned among their congregation; the flame set the wicked ablaze.

¹⁹They made a calf at Horeb and bowed down to a cast image.

²⁰They exchanged their weightiness for the pattern of an ox that eats grass.

²¹They forgot God their deliverer, who did great things in Egypt,

²²wonders in the land of Ham, awesome things at the Sea of Reeds.

²³He said he would wipe them out, had Moses his chosen one not stood in the breach before him, to turn back his rage from destroying them.

²⁴They rejected the finest land; they did not believe his word.

²⁵They grumbled in their tents; they did not listen to the voice of Yahweh.

²⁶He raised his hand to them, to make them fall in the wilderness,

²⁷and to make their seed fall among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.

²⁸They attached themselves to Baal of Peor and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

²⁹They provoked him to anger by their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

³⁰Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was restrained.

³¹And it was reckoned to him as righteousness, to generation after generation, forever.

³²They provoked wrath at the waters of Meribah, and it went badly for Moses on their account,

³³for they rebelled against his breath, and he spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴They did not wipe out the peoples, as Yahweh had said to them.

³⁵but they mingled with the nations and learned their deeds.

³⁶They served their idols, and these became a trap to them.

³⁷They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons,

³⁸and poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was defiled with bloodshed.

³⁹They became unclean by their works, and played the prostitute by their deeds.

⁴⁰The anger of Yahweh burned against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance.

⁴¹He gave them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴²Their enemies oppressed them, and they were humbled under their hand.

⁴³Many times he would deliver them, but they rebelled in their counsel and sank low in their guilt.

⁴⁴He saw the tight place they were in, when he heard their ringing cry.

⁴⁵He remembered his covenant for them and took pity, according to the abundance of his loyal love.

⁴⁶He set them into compassion before the face of all their captors.

⁴⁷Save us, O Yahweh our God, and gather us from the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to boast in your praise.

⁴⁸Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from forever to forever; and let all the people say, Amen! Praise Yah!