1 س َبِّحُوا اللهَ. سَبِّحُوا اللهَ لِأنَّهُ صالِحٌ، لأنَّ رَحمَتَهُ إلَى الأبَدِ.

Hallelujah! Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his loving-kindness for ever.

2 م َنْ يَقدِرُ أنْ يَصِفَ أعمالَ اللهِ الجَبّارَةَ، لِكَي يُسَبِّحَهُ بِما يَكفِي؟

Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah? can shew forth all his praise?

3 ه َنِيئاً لِمَنْ يَحفَظُونَ العَدلَ، وَعَلَى الدَّوامِ يَعمَلُونَ أعمالاً صالِحَةً وَمُستَقِيمَةً.

Blessed are they that keep justice, he that doeth righteousness at all times.

4 ا ذكُرْنِي يا اللهُ عِندَما تُرِي شَعبَكَ لُطفَكَ. أعِنِّي أنا أيضاً حِينَ تُخَلِّصُهُمْ.

Remember me, O Jehovah, with favour toward thy people; visit me with thy salvation:

5 ف َأُشارِكَ فِي بَرَكاتِ مُختارِيكَ، وَأفرَحَ مَعَ شَعبِكَ، وَأُسَبِّحُ مَعَ الَّذِينَ هُمْ لَكَ.

That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the joy of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.

6 ك َآبائِنا نَحنُ أخطَأنا. أشراراً كُنّا. مُذنِبُونَ نَحنُ!

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

7 ل َمْ يَتَعَلَّمْ آباؤُنا فِي مِصرَ مِنَ المُعجِزاتِ. لَمْ يَتَذَكَّرُوا مَحَبَّتَكَ وَإحْسانَكَ العَظِيمَيْنِ. هُناكَ عِندَ البَحرِ الأحمَرِ، تَمَرَّدُوا عَلَيكَ.

Our fathers in Egypt considered not thy wondrous works; they remembered not the multitude of thy loving-kindnesses; but they rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea.

8 ل َكِنَّهُ خَلَّصَهُمْ مِنْ أجلِ اسْمِهِ، لِكَي يُظهِرَ عَظَمَتَهُ،

Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his might.

9 ا نتَهَرَ البَحرَ الأحمَرَ فَجَفَّ، فَقادَهُمْ عَبرَ البَحرِ كَأنَّهُ قادَهُمْ عَبرَ الصَّحراءِ.

And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; and he led them through the deeps as through a wilderness.

10 خ َلَّصَهُمْ مِنْ مُبغِضِيهِمْ، وَفَداهُمْ مِنْ عَدُوِّهِمْ.

And he saved them from the hand of him that hated, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

11 ث ُمَّ غَمَرَ فِي الماءِ أعْداءَهُمْ. فَلَمْ يَنجُ مِنهُمْ أحَدٌ.

And the waters covered their oppressors: there was not one of them left.

12 ب ِكَلامِهِ آمَنُوا، وَرَنَّمُوا تَسابِيحَهُ.

Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.

13 ل َكِنَّهُمْ سَرْعانَ ما نَسَوْا ما صَنَعَهُ، وَرَفَضُوا أنْ يَنتَظِرُوا مَشُورَتَهُ وَرَأْيَهُ.

They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:

14 و َفِي الصَّحراءِ استَسلَمُوا لِشَهَواتِهِمْ، وَامتَحَنُوا اللهَ فِي البَرِّيَّةِ.

And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

15 ف َأعطاهُمْ ما طَلَبُوهُ، وَأرسَلَ إلَيْهِمْ مَرَضاً مُمِيتاً.

Then he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.

16 ف َغارَ الشَّعبُ مِنْ مُوسَى، وَغارُوا مِنْ هارُونَ، الكاهِنِ المُقَدَّسِ للهِ.

And they envied Moses in the camp, Aaron, the saint of Jehovah.

17 ف َانشَقَّتِ الأرْضُ وَالتَهَمَتْ جَماعَةَ داثانَ وَأبِيرامَ، وَدَفَنَتْ كُلَّ تِلْكَ الجَماعَةِ المُتَمَرِّدَةِ.

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram;

18 ش َبَّتْ نارٌ فِيهِمْ، وَالتَهَمَتْ أُولَئِكَ الأشرارَ.

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

19 ص َنَعُوا العِجلَ الذَّهَبِيَّ عِنْدَ جَبَلِ حُورِيبَ، وَسَجَدُوا لِذَلِكَ التِّمثالِ.

They made a calf in Horeb, and did homage to a molten image;

20 ا ستَبدَلُوا مَجدَ اللهِ بِتِمثالٍ مَسبُوكٍ لِثَورٍ آكِلٍ لِلعُشبِ.

And they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

21 ن َسَوْا اللهَ الَّذِي خَلَّصَهُمْ، وَصَنَعَ مُعجِزاتٍ عَظِيمَةً فِي مِصرَ،

They forgot God their Saviour, who had done great things in Egypt,

22 ص َنَعَ عَجائِبَ فِي أرْضِ حامَ، وَمُعجِزاتٍ مُهِيبَةً عِندَ البَحرِ الأحمَرِ!

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

23 ك انَ سَيُهلِكُهُمْ لَولا أنَّ مُوسَى الَّذِي اختارَهُ تَدَخَّلَ وَهَدَّأ غَضَبَ اللهِ، فَحالَ دُونَ هَلاكِهِمْ.

And he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the breach, to turn away his fury, lest he should destroy.

24 ث ُمَّ رَفَضُوا الأرْضَ الطَّيِّبَةَ. لَمْ يُؤمِنُوا بِوَعدِهِ.

And they despised the pleasant land; they believed not his word,

25 ج َلَسُوا فِي خِيامِهِمْ يَتَذَمَّرُونَ عَلَى اللهِ ، وَلَمْ يُطِيعُوا وَصايا اللهِ.

But murmured in their tents: they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah.

26 ف َرَفَعَ يَدَهُ وَأقسَمَ أنْ يَرمِيَهُمْ فِي الصَّحراءِ بَعِيداً،

And he lifted up his hand to them, that he would make them fall in the wilderness;

27 و َأنْ يُهزَمَ أحفادُهُمْ أمامَ الأُمَمِ الأُخرَى، فَيَتَشَتَّتُوا عَلَى وَجهِ الأرْضِ.

And that he would make their seed fall among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.

28 ث ُمَّ تَعَلَّقُوا بِبَعلِ فَغُورَ، وَأكَلُوا مِنَ الذَّبائِحَ المُقَدَّمَةِ لِلمَوتَى.

And they joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead;

29 أ ثارُوا غَضَبَ اللهِ بِأعمالِهِمْ، فَانتَشَرَ وَباءٌ بَينَهُمْ.

And they provoked to anger with their doings; and a plague broke out among them.

30 ث ُمَّ تَدَخَّلَ فِينَحاسُ، فَتَوَقَّفَ الوَباءُ.

Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment, and the plague was stayed;

31 و َحُسِبَ لَهُ هَذا عَمَلاً بارّاً، وَحُفِظَتْ ذِكراهُ جِيلاً بَعدَ جِيلٍ!

And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness, from generation to generation, for evermore.

32 أ غضَبُوا اللهَ عِندَ ماءِ مَرِيبَةَ، وَاضطَرَبَ مُوسَى بِسَبَبِهِمْ.

And they moved him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account;

33 أ مَرُّوا رُوحَهُ، فَتَكَلَّمَ بِطَيشٍ.

For they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.

34 ث ُمَّ لَمْ يُهلِكُوا الأُمَمَ الأُخرَى كَما أمَرَهُمُ اللهُ.

They did not destroy the peoples, as Jehovah commanded them;

35 ب َلِ اخْتَلَطُوا بِهِمْ، وَتَعَلَّمُوا عاداتِهِمْ.

But they mingled with the nations, and learned their works;

36 ب َدَأُوا يَخدِمُونَ أصنامَهُمْ، فَصارَ هَذا لَهُمْ فَخّاً.

And they served their idols; and they were a snare unto them:

37 ض َحُّوا حَتَّى بِأبنائِهِمْ، وَقَدَّمُوهُمْ لِشَياطِينَ!

And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,

38 س َفَكُوا دَماً بَرِيئاً، دَمَ أبنائِهِمْ وَبَناتِهِمِ الَّذِينَ ضَحُّوا بِهِمْ لأصْنامِ كَنعانَ. فَتَلَوَّثَتْ بِالدَّمِ أرْضُهُمْ.

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

39 و َتَنَجَّسُوا هُمْ أيضاً بِأعمالِهِمِ الخائِنَةِ وَالنَّجِسَةِ.

And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings.

40 ف َغَضِبَ اللهُ عَلَى شَعبِهِ، وَبَدَأ يَشمَئِزُّ مِنَ الَّذِينَ كانُوا لَهُ.

Then was the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance;

41 ف َأسلَمَهُمْ لِلأُمَمِ الأُخرَى، وَصارَ كارِهُوهُمْ يَحكُمُونَهُمْ.

And he gave them into the hand of the nations; and they that hated them ruled over them:

42 و َضايَقَهُمْ أعْداؤُهُم، وَأخْضَعُوهُمْ بِقُوَّتِهِمْ.

And their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

43 ك َثِيراً ما كانَ اللهُ يُنقِذُهُمْ، لَكِنَّهُمْ تَمَرَّدُوا وَفَعَلُوا ما أرادُوهُ، وَانحَدَرُوا أكثَرَ فَأكثَرَ فِي ذُنُوبِهِمْ.

Often did he deliver them; but as for them they provoked by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquity.

44 و َكُلَّما كانُوا فِي ضِيقٍ، وَصَلُّوا إلَيهِ، كانَ يَسمَعُهُمْ وَيَرْفَعُ أعباءَهُمْ.

But he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry;

45 ي َتَذَكَّرُ عَهدَهُ مَعَهُمْ، وَيُعَزِّيهِمْ بِمَحَبَّتِه وَإحْسانِهِ العَظِيمَيْنِ.

And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses;

46 ب َلْ جَعَلَ قُلُوبَ آسِرِيهِمْ تَرِقُّ لَهُمْ.

And he caused them to find compassion of all those that had carried them captives.

47 ف َالآنَ يا إلَهَنا أنقِذْنا، وَاجمَعنا مِنْ بَينِ الأُمَمِ، لِكَي نُقَدِّمَ الشُّكرَ لاسمِكَ القُدُّوسِ، وَبِتَرانِيمِ التَّسبِيحِ نُكرِمُكَ.

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

48 م ُبارَكٌ اللهُ إلَهُ إسرائِيلَ مِنَ الأزَلِ إلَى الأبَدِ. وَقالَ الشَّعبُ كُلُّهُ: «آمِينَ!» سَبِّحُوا اللهَ.

Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, from eternity and to eternity! And let all the people say, Amen! Hallelujah!