- 1. Praise ye Jah, give thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age, `is' His kindness.
- 2. Who doth utter the mighty acts of Jehovah? Soundeth all His praise?
- 3. O the happiness of those keeping judgment, Doing righteousness at all times.
- 4. Remember me, O Jehovah, With the favour of Thy people, Look after me in Thy salvation.
- 5. To look on the good of Thy chosen ones, To rejoice in the joy of Thy nation, To boast myself with Thine inheritance.
- 6. We have sinned with our fathers, We have done perversely, we have done wickedly.
- 7. Our fathers in Egypt, Have not considered wisely Thy wonders, They have not remembered The abundance of Thy kind acts, And provoke by the sea, at the sea of Suph.
- 8. And He saveth them for His name's sake, To make known His might,
- 9. And rebuketh the sea of Suph, and it is dried up, And causeth them to go Through depths as a wilderness.
- 10. And He saveth them from the hand Of him who is hating, And redeemeth them from the hand of the enemy.
- 11. And waters cover their adversaries, One of them hath not been left.
- 12. And they believe in His words, they sing His praise,
- 13. They have hasted -- forgotten His works, They have not waited for His counsel.
- 14. And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert.
- 15. And He giveth to them their request, And sendeth leanness into their soul.
- 16. And they are envious of Moses in the camp, Of Aaron, Jehovah's holy one.
- 17. Earth openeth, and swalloweth up Dathan, And covereth over the company of Abiram.
- 18. And fire burneth among their company, A flame setteth on fire the wicked.
- 19. They make a calf in Horeb, And bow themselves to a molten image,
- 20. And change their Honour Into the form of an ox eating herbs.
- 21. They have forgotten God their saviour, The doer of great things in Egypt,
- 22. Of wonderful things in the land of Ham, Of fearful things by the sea of Suph.
- 23. And He saith to destroy them, Unless Moses, His chosen one, Had stood in the breach before Him, To turn back His wrath from destroying.
- 24. And they kick against the desirable land, They have not given credence to His word.
- 25. And they murmur in their tents, They have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah.
- 26. And He lifteth up His hand to them, To cause them to fall in a wilderness,
- 27. And to cause their seed to fall among nations, And to scatter them through lands.
- 28. And they are coupled to Baal-Peor, And eat the sacrifices of the dead,
- 29. And they provoke to anger by their actions, And a plague breaketh forth upon them,
- 30. And Phinehas standeth, and executeth judgment, And the plague is restrained,
- 31. And it is reckoned to him to righteousness, To all generations -- unto the age.
- 32. And they cause wrath by the waters of Meribah, And it is evil to Moses for their sakes,
- 33. For they have provoked his spirit, And he speaketh wrongfully with his lips.
- 34. They have not destroyed the peoples, As Jehovah had said to them,
- 35. And mix themselves among nations, and learn their works,
- 36. And serve their idols, And they are to them for a snare.
- 37. And they sacrifice their sons And their daughters to destroyers,
- 38. And they shed innocent blood -- Blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they have sacrificed to idols of Canaan, And the land is profaned with blood.
- 39. And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.
- 40. And the anger of Jehovah Is kindled against His people, And He doth abominate His inheritance.
- 41. And giveth them into the hand of nations, And those hating them rule over them,
- 42. And their enemies oppress them, And they are humbled under their hand.
- 43. Many times He doth deliver them, And they rebel in their counsel, And they are brought low in their iniquity.
- 44. And He looketh on their distress When He heareth their cry,
- 45. And remembereth for them His covenant, And is comforted, According to the abundance of His kindness.
- 46. And He appointeth them for mercies Before all their captors.
- 47. Save us, O Jehovah our God, and gather us from the nations, To give thanks to Thy holy name, To glory in Thy praise.
- 48. Blessed `is' Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age even unto the age. And all the people said, `Amen, praise Jah!'
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