Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good
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Praise YAH, give thanks to YHWH, for [He is] good, for His kindness [is] for all time!
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Who utters the mighty acts of YHWH? Sounds all His praise?
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O the blessedness of those keeping judgment, || Doing righteousness at all times.
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Remember me, O YHWH, || With the favor of Your people, || Look after me in Your salvation.
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To look on the good of Your chosen ones, || To rejoice in the joy of Your nation, || To boast myself with Your inheritance.
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We have sinned with our fathers, || We have done perversely, we have done wickedly.
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Our fathers in Egypt, || Have not considered wisely Your wonders, || They have not remembered || The abundance of Your kind acts, || And provoke by the sea, at the Sea of Suph.
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And He saves them for His Name’s sake, || To make His might known,
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And rebukes the Sea of Suph, and it is dried up, || And causes them to go || Through depths as a wilderness.
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And He saves them from the hand || Of him who is hating, || And redeems them from the hand of the enemy.
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And waters cover their adversaries, || One of them has not been left.
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And they believe in His words, they sing His praise,
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They have hurried—forgotten His works, || They have not waited for His counsel.
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And they lust greatly in a wilderness, || And try God in a desert.
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And He gives to them their request, || And sends leanness into their soul.
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And they are envious of Moses in the camp, || Of Aaron, YHWH’s holy one.
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Earth opens, and swallows up Dathan, || And covers over the company of Abiram.
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And fire burns among their company, || A flame sets the wicked on fire.
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They make a calf in Horeb, || And bow themselves to a molten image,
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And change their glory || Into the form of an ox eating herbs.
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They have forgotten God their Savior, || The doer of great things in Egypt,
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Of wonderful things in the land of Ham, || Of fearful things by the Sea of Suph.
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And He commands to destroy them, || Unless Moses, His chosen one, || Had stood in the breach before Him, || To turn back His wrath from destroying.
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And they kick against the desirable land, || They have not given credence to His word.
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And they murmur in their tents, || They have not listened to the voice of YHWH.
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And He lifts up His hand to them, || To cause them to fall in a wilderness,
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And to cause their seed to fall among nations, || And to scatter them through lands.
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And they are coupled to Ba‘al-Peor, || And eat the sacrifices of the dead,
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And they provoke to anger by their actions, || And a plague breaks forth on them,
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And Phinehas stands, and executes judgment, || And the plague is restrained,
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And it is reckoned to him for righteousness, || From generation to generation—for all time.
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And they cause wrath by the waters of Meribah, || And it is evil to Moses for their sakes,
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For they have provoked his spirit, || And he speaks wrongfully with his lips.
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They have not destroyed the peoples, || As YHWH had commanded to them,
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And mix themselves among nations, and learn their works,
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And serve their idols, || And they are for a snare to them.
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And they sacrifice their sons and their daughters to the demons,
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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.
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And they are defiled with their works, || And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.
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And the anger of YHWH || Is kindled against His people, || And He detests His inheritance.
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And gives them into the hand of nations, || And those hating them rule over them,
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And their enemies oppress them, || And they are humbled under their hand.
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He delivers them many times, || And they rebel in their counsel, || And they are brought low in their iniquity.
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And He looks on their distress || When He hears their cry,
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And remembers His covenant for them, || And is comforted, || According to the abundance of His kindness.
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And He appoints them for mercies || Before all their captors.
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Save us, O our God YHWH, and gather us from the nations, || To give thanks to Your Holy Name, || To glory in Your praise.
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Blessed [is] YHWH, God of Israel, || From age until age. And all the people said, “Amen, praise YAH!”
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