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Praise the LORD!
Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for he is good!
For his mercy endures forever.
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Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD?
Or can declare all his praise? ?
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Blessed are those who keep justice,
and he who does righteousness at all times!
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Remember me, O LORD, with the favor you have toward your people;
Oh, visit me with your salvation,
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that I may see the benefit of your chosen ones,
that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation
that I may glory with your inheritance.
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We have sinned, even as our fathers did; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
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When our fathers were in Egypt, they gave no thought to your miracles;
they did not remember your many kindnesses,
and they rebelled by the sea, the Red Sea.
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Yet he saved them for his name's sake, to make his mighty power known.
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He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;
he led them through the depths as through a desert.
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He saved them from the hand of the foe;
from the hand of the enemy he redeemed them.
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The waters covered their adversaries; not one of them survived.
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Then they believed his promises and sang his praise.
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But they soon forgot what he had done and did not wait for his counsel.
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In the desert they gave in to their craving;
in the wasteland they put God to the test.
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And he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.
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When they envied Moses in the camp,
and Aaron the saint of the LORD,
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The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan,
and covered the faction of Abiram.
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A fire was kindled in their company;
the flame burned up the wicked.
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They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped the molded image.
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Thus they changed their glory into the image of an ox that eats grass,
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They forgot God their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,
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wondrous works in th eland of Ham, awesome things by the Red Sea.
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Therefore he said that he would destroy them,
had not Moses his chosen one stood before him in the breach,
to turn away his wrath, lest he destroy them.
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Then they despised the pleasant land;
they did not believe his word,
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But murmured in their tents, and did not heed the voice of the LORD.
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Therefore he lifted up his hand in an oath against them,
to overthrow them in the wilderness,
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To overthrow their descendants among the nations,
and to scatter them in the lands.
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They joined themselves also to Baal of Peor,
and ate sacrifices made to the dead.
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He turned their waters into blood, causing their fish to die.
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Their land teemed with frogs,
which went up into the bedrooms of their rulers.
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And that was accounted to him for righteousness
to all generations forevermore.
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They angered him also at the waters of strife,
so that it went ill with Moses on account of them;
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he struck down their vines and fig trees
and shattered the trees of their country.
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He spoke, and the locusts came,
grasshoppers without number;
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they ate up every green thing in their land,
ate up the produce of their soil.
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Then he struck down all the firstborn in their land,
the firstfruits of all their manhood.
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They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
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They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
and the land was desecrated by their blood.
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They defiled themselves by what they did;
by their deeds they prostituted themselves.
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Therefore the LORD was angry his people and abhorred his inheritance.
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He handed them over to the nations, and their foes ruled over them.
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Their enemies oppressed them and subjected them to their power.
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Many times he delivered them, but they were bent on rebellion
and they wasted away in their sin.
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But he took note of their distress when he heard their cry;
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for their sake he remembered his covenant and out of his great love he relented.
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He caused them to be pitied by all who held them captive.
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Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from the nations,
that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.
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Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlastig to everlasting!
And let all the people say, "Amen!" Praise the LORD!
