1Hallelujah! Give thanks to the Lord for his goodness, for his kindness endures forever. Who can describe his heroic deeds, or publish all his praise? Happy they who act justly, and do righteousness evermore. Remember me, Lord, as you remember your people, and visit me with your gracious help.
2May I see the good fortune of your elect, may I share in the joy of your nation, and in the pride of your heritage.
3We, like our fathers, have sinned, we have done perversely and wickedly
4In the land of Egypt our fathers, all heedless of your wonders, and unmindful of your great kindness, at the Red Sea defied the Most High.
5But true to his name he saved them, in order to show his might.
6He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried; they marched through the depths as through desert,
7saved from the hand of the hostile, redeemed from the hand of the foe.
8The waters covered their enemies: not one of them was left.
9So then they believed in his words, and began to sing his praise.
10But soon they forgot his deeds: they did not wait for his counsel.
11Their greed was ravenous in the desert; they put God to the test in the wilderness.
12He gave them the thing they had asked for, but sent wasting disease among them.
13The camp grew jealous of Moses and of Aaron, holy one of the Lord.
14The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered Abiram’s company.
15Fire broke out on their company, flame kindled upon the wicked.
16They made a calf in Horeb, and bowed to the molten image.
17They exchanged their glorious God for the image of ox that eats grass.
18They forgot the God who had saved them by mighty deeds in Egypt
19Wonders in the land of Ham, terrors by the Red Sea.
20So he vowed, and would have destroyed them, but for Moses his elect, who stepped into the breach before him, to divert his deadly wrath.
21They spurned the delightsome land, they refused to believe in his word.
22They grumbled in their tents, would not listen to the voice of the Lord.
23So he swore with uplifted hand to lay them low in the wilderness;
24to disperse their seed among heathen, to scatter them over the world.
25Then they joined them to Baal of Peor, and ate what was offered the dead.
26They provoked him to wrath by their deeds, and plague broke out among them.
27Then Phinehas stood between, and so the plague was stayed;
28and it was counted to him for righteousness unto all generations forever.
29They angered him at the waters of Meribah, through them it went ill with Moses.
30They rebelled against his spirit, and he uttered speech that was rash.
31They did not destroy the nations, as the Lord had commanded them;
32but they mingled with the heathen, and learned to do as they did.
33Their idol gods they worshipped, and they were ensnared by them.
34They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons.
35They poured out innocent blood the blood of their sons and daughters whom they offered to Canaan’s idols, and the land was polluted with blood.
36They became unclean by their works, and adulterous in their deeds.
37Then the Lord’s fury was on his people, filled with horror at his inheritance.
38He delivered them to the heathen, to the sway of those who hated them.
39Their enemies oppressed them, and subdued them under their hand.
40Many a time he saved them, but they rebelled at his counsel, and were brought low by their wrongdoing.
41Yet he looked upon their distress, when he heard their cry.
42He remembered his covenant, and, in his great kindness, relented.
43He caused them to be pitied by all who carried them captive.
44Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us out of the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, and to make our boast of your praise. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. And let all the people say “Amen.” Praise the Lord.