Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah! O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is gracious, and his mercy endureth for ever.

Yea, they offered their sons and their daughters unto devils,

But within a while they forgot his works, and would not abide his counsel.

They joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the offerings of the dead.

And he gave them their desire, but sent leanness withal into their soul.

Our fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egypt, neither kept they thy great goodness in remembrance, but were disobedient at the sea, even at the reed sea.

They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.

They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that he punished Moses for their sakes,

and shed the innocent blood of their sons and of their daughters; whom they offered unto the idols of Canaan, so that the land was defiled with blood.

Neither destroyed they the Heathen, as the LORD commanded them,

Then stood up Phinehas, and executed justice; and so the plague ceased.

Blessed are they that always keep judgment, and do righteousness.

Yea, they thought scorn of that pleasant land, and gave no credence unto his word,

Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and world without end. And let all people say, "Amen, Amen." Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!

We have sinned with our fathers; we have done amiss, and dealt wickedly.

but were mingled among the Heathen, and learned their works -

insomuch that they worshipped their idols, which turned to their own decay.

So he said he would have destroyed them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in that gap; to turn away his wrathful indignation, lest he should destroy them.

Thus they turned their glory into the similitude of a calf, that eateth hay.

Nevertheless, he helped them for his name's sake, that he might make his power to be known.

He thought upon his covenant, and pitied them, according unto the multitude of his mercies;

Deliver us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the Heathen; that we may give thanks unto thy holy name, and make our boast of thy praise.

because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.

He rebuked the reed sea, and it was dried up: so he led them through the deep, as through a wilderness.

Remember me, O LORD, according to the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation,

A lust came upon them in the wilderness, so that they tempted God in the desert.

They angered Moses in the tents, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.

Then believed they in his word, and sang praise unto him.

They forgot God their Savior, which had done so great things in Egypt,

Thus were they stained with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance;

And that was counted unto him for righteousness, among all posterities for evermore.

Who can express the noble acts of the LORD, or show forth all his praise?

but murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.

And he saved them from the adversary's hand, and delivered them from the hand of the enemy.

Many a time did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their own inventions, and were brought down in their wickedness.

Thus they provoked him unto anger with their own inventions; and the plague was great among them.

Then lift he up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness,

So the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the congregation of Abiram.

The fire was kindled in their company; the flame burnt up the ungodly.

Nevertheless, when he saw their adversity, he heard their complaint.

wondrous works in the land of Ham, and fearful things in the reed sea.

that we might see the pleasure of thy chosen, and rejoice in the gladness of thy people, and give thanks with thine inheritance.

yea, he made all those that had led them away captive, to pity them.

to cast out their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.

Their enemies oppressed them, and had them in subjection.

and gave them over into the hand of the Heathen; and they that hated them, were lords over them.

As for those that troubled them, the waters overwhelmed them; there was not one of them left.