Verse 1
Praise ye Jah, give thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age, `is' His kindness.
Verse 2
Who doth utter the mighty acts of Jehovah? Soundeth all His praise?
Verse 3
O the happiness of those keeping judgment, Doing righteousness at all times.
Verse 4
Remember me, O Jehovah, With the favour of Thy people, Look after me in Thy salvation.
Verse 5
To look on the good of Thy chosen ones, To rejoice in the joy of Thy nation, To boast myself with Thine inheritance.
Verse 6
We have sinned with our fathers, We have done perversely, we have done wickedly.
Verse 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.
Verse 8
And He saveth them for His name's sake, To make known His might,
Verse 9
And rebuketh the sea of Suph, and it is dried up, And causeth them to go Through depths as a wilderness.
Verse 10
And He saveth them from the hand Of him who is hating, And redeemeth them from the hand of the enemy.
Verse 11
And waters cover their adversaries, One of them hath not been left.
Verse 12
And they believe in His words, they sing His praise,
Verse 13
They have hasted -- forgotten His works, They have not waited for His counsel.
Verse 14
And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert.
Verse 15
And He giveth to them their request, And sendeth leanness into their soul.
Verse 16
And they are envious of Moses in the camp, Of Aaron, Jehovah's holy one.
Verse 17
Earth openeth, and swalloweth up Dathan, And covereth over the company of Abiram.
Verse 18
And fire burneth among their company, A flame setteth on fire the wicked.
Verse 19
They make a calf in Horeb, And bow themselves to a molten image,
Verse 20
And change their Honour Into the form of an ox eating herbs.
Verse 21
They have forgotten God their saviour, The doer of great things in Egypt,
Verse 22
Of wonderful things in the land of Ham, Of fearful things by the sea of Suph.
Verse 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.
Verse 24
And they kick against the desirable land, They have not given credence to His word.
Verse 25
And they murmur in their tents, They have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah.
Verse 26
And He lifteth up His hand to them, To cause them to fall in a wilderness,
Verse 27
And to cause their seed to fall among nations, And to scatter them through lands.
Verse 28
And they are coupled to Baal-Peor, And eat the sacrifices of the dead,
Verse 29
And they provoke to anger by their actions, And a plague breaketh forth upon them,
Verse 30
And Phinehas standeth, and executeth judgment, And the plague is restrained,
Verse 31
And it is reckoned to him to righteousness, To all generations -- unto the age.
Verse 32
And they cause wrath by the waters of Meribah, And it is evil to Moses for their sakes,
Verse 33
For they have provoked his spirit, And he speaketh wrongfully with his lips.
Verse 34
They have not destroyed the peoples, As Jehovah had said to them,
Verse 35
And mix themselves among nations, and learn their works,
Verse 36
And serve their idols, And they are to them for a snare.
Verse 37
And they sacrifice their sons And their daughters to destroyers,
Verse 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.
Verse 39
And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.
Verse 40
And the anger of Jehovah Is kindled against His people, And He doth abominate His inheritance.
Verse 41
And giveth them into the hand of nations, And those hating them rule over them,
Verse 42
And their enemies oppress them, And they are humbled under their hand.
Verse 43
Many times He doth deliver them, And they rebel in their counsel, And they are brought low in their iniquity.
Verse 44
And He looketh on their distress When He heareth their cry,
Verse 45
And remembereth for them His covenant, And is comforted, According to the abundance of His kindness.
Verse 46
And He appointeth them for mercies Before all their captors.
Verse 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.
Verse 48
Blessed `is' Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age even unto the age. And all the people said, `Amen, praise Jah!'