I pursued my enemies and overtook them;
And I did not turn back until they were consumed.

I acknowledged my sin to You,
And I did not hide my wickedness;
I said, “I will confess [all] my transgressions to the Lord”;
And You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah.

We have heard with our ears, O God,
Our fathers have told us
The work You did in their days,
In the days of old.

For our fathers did not possess the land [of Canaan] by their own sword,
Nor did their own arm save them,
But Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your presence,
Because You favored and delighted in them.

He turned the sea into dry land;
They crossed through the river on foot;
There we rejoiced in Him.

You, O God, sent abroad plentiful rain;
You confirmed Your inheritance when it was parched and weary.

Your flock found a dwelling place in it;
O God, in Your goodness You provided for the poor.

Those who hate me without cause are more than the hairs of my head;
Those who would destroy me are powerful, being my enemies wrongfully;
I am forced to restore what I did not steal.

You divided the [Red] Sea by Your strength;
You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.

You crushed the heads of Leviathan (Egypt);
You gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

You broke open fountains and streams;
You dried up ever-flowing rivers.

He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers
In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan [where Pharaoh resided].

“Behold, He struck the rock so that waters gushed out
And the streams overflowed;
Can He give bread also?
Or will He provide meat for His people?”

But He, the source of compassion and lovingkindness, forgave their wickedness and did not destroy them;
Many times He restrained His anger
And did not stir up all His wrath.

He leveled a path for His anger [to give it free run];
He did not spare their souls from death,
But turned over their lives to the plague.

He established it for a testimony in Joseph
When He went throughout the land of Egypt.
I heard the language [of One whom] I did not know, saying,

Deal with them as [You did] with Midian,
As with Sisera and Jabin at the brook of Kishon,

For He looked down from His holy height [of His sanctuary],
From heaven the Lord gazed on the earth,

We have sinned like our fathers;
We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.

Our fathers in Egypt did not understand nor appreciate Your miracles;
They did not remember the abundance of Your mercies nor imprint Your lovingkindnesses on their hearts,
But they were rebellious at the sea, at the Red Sea.

But they quickly forgot His works;
They did not [patiently] wait for His counsel and purpose [to be revealed regarding them],

They did not destroy the [pagan] peoples [in Canaan],
As the Lord commanded them,

Many times He rescued them;
But they were rebellious in their counsel,
And sank down in their wickedness.

Because the man did not remember to show kindness,
But persecuted the suffering and needy man,
And the brokenhearted, to put them to death.

For You formed my innermost parts;
You knit me [together] in my mother’s womb.