1Praise Yahweh!
2Because Yahweh has done many great things,
3◄Happy are/He is pleased with► those who act fairly/justly,
4Yahweh, be kind to me when you help your people;
5Allow me to see it when your people become prosperous again
6We and our ancestors have sinned;
7When our ancestors were in Egypt,
8But he rescued them for the sake of his own reputation
9He rebuked the Red Sea and it became dry,
10In that way he rescued them from the power [MTY] of their enemies who hated them [DOU].
11Then their enemies were drowned in the water of the Red Sea;
12When that happened, our ancestors believed that Yahweh had truly done for them what he had promised to do,
13But they soon forgot what he had done for them;
14They intensely wanted food like they formerly ate in Egypt.
15So he gave them what they requested,
16Later when some of the men became jealous of Moses
17the ground opened up and swallowed Dathan
18And God sent a fire down from heaven
19Then the Israeli leaders made a gold statue at Sinai Mountain
20Instead of worshiping our glorious God,
21They forgot about God, who had rescued them by the great miracles that he performed in Egypt.
22They forgot about the wonderful things that he did for them in Egypt
23Because of that, God said that he would get rid of the Israelis,
24Later, our ancestors ◄refused/were afraid► to enter beautiful Canaan land
25They stayed in their tents and grumbled
26So he solemnly [MTY] told them
27and that he would scatter their descendants among the people of other nations/people-groups who did not believe in him,
28Later the Israeli people started to worship the idol of Baal who they thought lived at Peor Mountain,
29Yahweh became very angry because of what they had done,
30But Phinehas stood up and punished/killed the ones who had sinned greatly,
31People have remembered that righteous thing that Phinehas did,
32Then at Meribah Springs our ancestors caused Yahweh to become angry,
33They caused Moses to become very angry [IDM],
34Our ancestors did not destroy the people who did not believe in Yahweh
35Instead, they mingled with people from those people-groups,
36Our ancestors worshiped the idols of those people,
37Some of the Israelis sacrificed their sons and daughters to the demons that those idols represented.
38They killed [MTY] their own children, who ◄were innocent/had not done things that were wrong►,
39So by their deeds they caused themselves to become unacceptable to God;
40So Yahweh became very angry with his people;
41As a result he allowed people-groups who did not believe in him to conquer them,
42Their enemies ◄oppressed them/treated them cruelly►
43Many times Yahweh rescued them,
44However, Yahweh always heard them when they cried out to him;
45For their sake, he thought about the agreement/promise that he had made to bless them,
46He caused all those who had taken the Israelis to Babylonia to ◄feel sorry for/pity► them.
47Yahweh our God, rescue/save us
48Praise Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis worship,