And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

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

Thus they exchanged [the true God who was] their glory
For the image of an ox that eats grass.

They forgat God their Saviour, Who had done great things in Egypt,

Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.

Therefore 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.

Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:

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

And He lifteth up His hand to them, To cause them to fall in a wilderness,

That their children might be mixed among the nations, and sent away into other lands.

Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.

Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.

And it was credited to him as a righteous act, from generation to generation to eternity.

They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:

They did not exterminate the peoples, as Yahweh had commanded them,

And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

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

And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

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

So Yahweh's anger burned against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance.

Then he gave them into [the] hand of [the] nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.

Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

He also made them objects of compassion
Among those who had carried them away captive.

Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.

Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.

O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

Hungry -- yea -- thirsty, Their soul in them becometh feeble,

Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.

And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

For He hath satisfied a longing soul, And a hungry soul hath filled with goodness.

Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.

Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

He bringeth them out from the dark place, And death-shade, And their bands He draweth away.

Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Fools, because of their way of transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted;

Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.

He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Yea let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and recount his works with a shout.

[Those who] went down to the sea into ships, doing business on [the] {high seas},

they saw the works of Yahweh, and his wonderful deeds in [the] deep.

And He saith, and appointeth a tempest, And it lifteth up its billows,

They mount up to the heavens, they go down again to the depths: Their soul melteth away because of trouble.

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

Then they cried out to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brought them out of their distresses.

He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.

Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Yea let them extol him in the convocation of the people, and, in the seated company of elders, let them praise him.

He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;

A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.

And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;

They sow fields and plant vineyards
that yield a fruitful harvest.

He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.

Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.

The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.

{A Song or Psalm of David.} O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.

Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.

I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.

For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.

Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth;

That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me.

God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;

Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.

Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?

Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

Yea they have returned unto me - Evil for good; and, Hatred for my love.

Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

When he enters into dispute, let wickedness come about.
Let his prayer [for help] result [only] in sin.

Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

An exactor layeth a snare for all that he hath, And strangers spoil his labour.

Let there be none [who] extend to him loyal love, nor any who pities his orphans.

Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Let the iniquity of his ancestors be remembered before Yahweh, and let the sin of his mother not be blotted out.

Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off their memory from [the] earth,

Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.

Because he wore a curse as his robe, let it enter {his body} like water, and into his bones like oil.

Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

My knees give way from fasting, and my skin is lean, deprived of oil.

I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.