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[1]Alleluia. Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
[2]Who shall declare the powers of the Lord? who shall set forth all his praises?
[3]Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do justice at all times.
[4]Remember us, O Lord, in the favour of thy people: visit us with thy salvation.
[5]That we may see the good of thy chosen, that we may rejoice in the joy of thy nation: that thou mayst be praised with thy inheritance.
[6]We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity.
[7]Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up to the sea, even the Red Sea.
[8]And he saved them for his own name's sake: that he might make his power known.
[9]And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up: and he led them through the depths, as in a wilderness.
[10]And he saved them from the hand of them that hated them: and he redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
[11]And the water covered them that afflicted them: there was not one of them left.
[12]And they believed his words: and they sang his praises.
[13]They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they waited not for his counsels.
[14]And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water.
[15]And he gave them their request: and sent fulness into their souls.
[16]And they provoked Moses in the camp, Aaron the holy one of the Lord.
[17]The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan: and covered the congregation of Abiron.
[18]And a fire was kindled in their congregation: the flame burned the wicked.
[19]They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven thing.
[20]And they changed their glory into the likeness of a calf that eateth grass.
[21]They forgot God, who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt,
[22]wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red Sea.
[23]And 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.
[24]And they set at nought the desirable land. They believed not his word,
[25]and they murmured in their tents: they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord.
[26]And he lifted up his hand over them: to overthrow them in the desert;
[27]And to cast down their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the countries.
[28]They also were initiated to Beelphegor: and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
[29]And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was multiplied among them.
[30]Then Phinees stood up, and pacified him: and the slaughter ceased.
[31]And it was reputed to him unto justice, to generation and generation for evermore.
[32]They provoked him also at the waters of contradiction: and Moses was afflicted for their sakes:
[33]because they exasperated his spirit. And he distinguished with his lips.
[34]They did not destroy the nations of which the Lord spoke unto them.
[35]And they were mingled among the heathens, and learned their works:
[36]and served their idols, and it became a stumblingblock to them.
[37]And they sacrificed their sons, and their daughters to devils.
[38]And they shed innocent blood: the blood of their sons and of their daughters which they sacrificed to the idols of Chanaan. And the land was polluted with blood,
[39]and was defiled with their works: and they went aside after their own inventions.
[40]And the Lord was exceedingly angry with his people: and he abhorred his inheritance.
[41]And he delivered them into the hands of the nations: and they that hated them had dominion over them.
[42]And their enemies afflicted them: and they were humbled under their hands:
[43]many times did he deliver them. But they provoked him with their counsel: and they were brought low by their iniquities.
[44]And he saw when they were in tribulation: and he heard their prayer.
[45]And he was mindful of his covenant: and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
[46]And he gave them unto mercies, in the sight of all those that had made them captives.
[47]Save us, O Lord, our God: and gather us from among nations: That we may give thanks to thy holy name, and may glory in thy praise.
[48]Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say: So be it, so be it.
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