| 1. Give thanks to the Lord because He is good, for His kindness is eternal. |
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| 2. Give thanks to the God of the angels, for His kindness is eternal. |
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| 3. Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for His kindness is eternal. |
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| 4. To Him Who performs great wonders alone, for His kindness is eternal. |
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| To Him Who performs great wonders alone: In the beginning, no angel was created when He made the wonders: the heaven, the earth, the sun and the moon. |
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| 5. To Him Who made the heavens with understanding, for His kindness is eternal. |
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| 6. To Him Who spread out the earth over the water, for His kindness is eternal. |
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| 7. To Him Who made great luminaries, for His kindness is eternal. |
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| 8. The sun to rule by day, for His kindness is eternal. |
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| 9. The moon and stars to rule at night, for His kindness is eternal. |
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| 10. To Him Who smote the Egyptians with their firstborn, for His kindness is eternal. |
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| To Him Who smote the Egyptians with their firstborn: It does not say, “their firstborn,” but “with their firstborn.” The firstborn arose and beat their fathers’ legs because they detained Israel, when they heard about the tenth plague from Moses. |
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| 11. And He took Israel from their midst, for His kindness is eternal. |
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| 12. With a strong hand and with an outstretched arm, for His kindness is eternal. |
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| 13. To Him Who cut the Sea of Reeds asunder, for His kindness is eternal. |
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| asunder: In twelve pieces for the twelve tribes. |
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| 14. And caused Israel to cross in its midst, for His kindness is eternal. |
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| 15. And He threw Pharaoh and his host into the Sea of Reeds, for His kindness is eternal. |
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| 16. To Him Who led His people in the desert, for His kindness is eternal. |
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| 17. To Him Who smote great kings, for His kindness is eternal. |
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| great kings: Here he alluded to the thirty- one kings, and he compared for them Pharaoh and his host and the plagues of Egypt to mighty kings, harsher than they. Sihon was equal to all of them, [and Og was equal to all of them (Machzor Vitry)], each one individually, and so did he explain above (135: 11): “Sihon the king of the Amorites and Og the king of Bashan and all the kingdoms of Canaan.” So it is in the Aggadah. |
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| 18. And slew mighty kings, for His kindness is eternal. |
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| 19. Sihon the king of the Amorites, for His kindness is eternal. |
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| 20. And Og the king of Bashan, for His kindness is eternal. |
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| 21. And He gave their land as an inheritance, for His kindness is eternal. |
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| 22. An inheritance to Israel His servant, for His kindness is eternal. |
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| 23. Who remembered us in our humble state, for His kindness is eternal. |
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| Who remembered us in our humble state: In Egypt, He remembered us. |
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| 24. And He rescued us from our adversaries, for His kindness is eternal. |
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| And He rescued us: from their midst and performed all these wonders for us. |
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| 25. Who gives bread to all flesh, for His kindness is eternal. |
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| Who gives bread: He alludes here to kindness (to all creatures). |
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| 26. Give thanks to the God of heaven, for His kindness is eternal. |
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| Gives thanks to the God of heaven: Who prepares therein food for every creature. The expression, “for His kindness is eternal,” appears twenty-six times in this psalm, corresponding to the twenty-six generations that the world was without Torah and existed through the kindness of the Holy One, blessed be He. |
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