1Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord for He is good, for His kindness is everlasting.
2Who can recount the mighty acts of the Lord, or proclaim all His praises?
3Fortunate are those who preserve justice, who perform deeds of righteousness all the time.
4Remember me, Lord, when You find favor with Your people; be mindful of me with Your deliverance;
5to behold the prosperity of Your chosen, to rejoice in the joy of Your nation, to glory with Your inheritance.
6We have sinned as did our fathers, we have acted perversely and wickedly.
7Our fathers in Egypt did not contemplate Your wonders, they did not remember Your abundant kindnesses, and they rebelled by the sea, at the Sea of Reeds.
8Yet He delivered them for the sake of His Name, to make His strength known.
9He roared at the Sea of Reeds and it dried up; He led them through the depths, as through a desert.
10He saved them from the hand of the enemy, and redeemed them from the hand of the foe.
11The waters engulfed their adversaries; not one of them remained.
12Then they believed in His words, they sang His praise.
13They quickly forgot His deeds, they did not wait for His counsel;
14and they lusted a craving in the desert, they tested God in the wilderness.
15And He gave them their request, but sent emaciation into their souls.
16They angered Moses in the camp, and Aaron, the Lord's holy one.
17The earth opened and swallowed Dathan, and engulfed the company of Abiram;
18and a fire burned in their assembly, a flame set the wicked ablaze.
19They made a calf in Horeb, and bowed down to a molten image.
20They exchanged their Glory for the likeness of a grass-eating ox.
21They forgot God, their savior, Who had performed great deeds in Egypt,
22wonders in the land of Ham, awesome things at the Sea of Reeds.
23He said that He would destroy them-had not Moses His chosen one stood in the breach before Him, to turn away His wrath from destroying.
24They despised the desirable land, they did not believe His word.
25And they murmured in their tents, they did not heed the voice of the Lord.
26So He raised His hand [in oath] against them, to cast them down in the wilderness,
27to throw down their progeny among the nations, and to scatter them among the lands.
28They joined themselves to [the idol] Baal Peor, and ate of the sacrifices to the dead;
29they provoked Him with their doings, and a plague broke out in their midst.
30Then Phineas arose and executed judgement, and the plague was stayed;
31it was accounted for him as a righteous deed, through all generations, forever.
32They angered Him at the waters of Merivah, and Moses suffered on their account;
33for they defied His spirit, and He pronounced [an oath] with His lips.
34They did not destroy the nations as the Lord had instructed them;
35rather, they mingled with the nations and learned their deeds.
36They worshipped their idols, and they became a snare for them.
37They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.
38They spilled innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land became guilty with blood.
39They were defiled by their deeds, and went astray by their actions.
40And the Lord's wrath blazed against His people, and He abhorred His inheritance;
41so He delivered them into the hands of nations, and their enemies ruled them.
42Their enemies oppressed them, and they were subdued under their hand.
43Many times did He save them, yet they were rebellious in their counsel and were impoverished by their sins.
44But He saw their distress, when He heard their prayer;
45and He remembered for them His covenant and He relented, in keeping with His abounding kindness,
46and He caused them to be treated mercifully by all their captors.
47Deliver us, Lord our God; gather us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to Your Holy Name and glory in Your praise.
48Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, forever and ever. And let all the people say, "Amen! Praise the Lord!"