1 P raise ye Jah, give thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age, His kindness.

2 W ho 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 R emember me, O Jehovah, With the favour of Thy people, Look after me in Thy salvation.

5 T o look on the good of Thy chosen ones, To rejoice in the joy of Thy nation, To boast myself with Thine inheritance.

6 W e have sinned with our fathers, We have done perversely, we have done wickedly.

7 O ur 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 A nd He saveth them for His name's sake, To make known His might,

9 A nd rebuketh the sea of Suph, and it is dried up, And causeth them to go Through depths as a wilderness.

10 A nd He saveth them from the hand Of him who is hating, And redeemeth them from the hand of the enemy.

11 A nd waters cover their adversaries, One of them hath not been left.

12 A nd they believe in His words, they sing His praise,

13 T hey have hasted -- forgotten His works, They have not waited for His counsel.

14 A nd they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert.

15 A nd He giveth to them their request, And sendeth leanness into their soul.

16 A nd they are envious of Moses in the camp, Of Aaron, Jehovah's holy one.

17 E arth openeth, and swalloweth up Dathan, And covereth over the company of Abiram.

18 A nd fire burneth among their company, A flame setteth on fire the wicked.

19 T hey make a calf in Horeb, And bow themselves to a molten image,

20 A nd change their Honour Into the form of an ox eating herbs.

21 T hey have forgotten God their saviour, The doer of great things in Egypt,

22 O f wonderful things in the land of Ham, Of fearful things by the sea of Suph.

23 A nd 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 A nd they kick against the desirable land, They have not given credence to His word.

25 A nd they murmur in their tents, They have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah.

26 A nd He lifteth up His hand to them, To cause them to fall in a wilderness,

27 A nd to cause their seed to fall among nations, And to scatter them through lands.

28 A nd they are coupled to Baal-Peor, And eat the sacrifices of the dead,

29 A nd they provoke to anger by their actions, And a plague breaketh forth upon them,

30 A nd Phinehas standeth, and executeth judgment, And the plague is restrained,

31 A nd it is reckoned to him to righteousness, To all generations -- unto the age.

32 A nd they cause wrath by the waters of Meribah, And it is evil to Moses for their sakes,

33 F or they have provoked his spirit, And he speaketh wrongfully with his lips.

34 T hey have not destroyed the peoples, As Jehovah had said to them,

35 A nd mix themselves among nations, and learn their works,

36 A nd serve their idols, And they are to them for a snare.

37 A nd they sacrifice their sons And their daughters to destroyers,

38 A nd 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 A nd they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.

40 A nd the anger of Jehovah Is kindled against His people, And He doth abominate His inheritance.

41 A nd giveth them into the hand of nations, And those hating them rule over them,

42 A nd their enemies oppress them, And they are humbled under their hand.

43 M any times He doth deliver them, And they rebel in their counsel, And they are brought low in their iniquity.

44 A nd He looketh on their distress When He heareth their cry,

45 A nd remembereth for them His covenant, And is comforted, According to the abundance of His kindness.

46 A nd He appointeth them for mercies Before all their captors.

47 S ave us, O Jehovah our God, and gather us from the nations, To give thanks to Thy holy name, To glory in Thy praise.

48 B lessed Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age even unto the age. And all the people said, `Amen, praise Jah!'