• ¹Praise Yahweh!
• Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
• for his loving kindness endures forever.

• ²Who can utter the mighty acts of Yahweh,
• or fully declare all his praise?

• ³Blessed are those who keep justice.
• Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.

• ⁴Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people.
• Visit me with your salvation,

• ⁵that I may see the prosperity of your chosen,
• that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation,
• that I may glory with your inheritance.

• ⁶We have sinned with our fathers.
• We have committed iniquity.
• We have done wickedly.

• ⁷Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt.
• They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses,
• but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea *or, Sea of Reeds.

• ⁸Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake,
• that he might make his mighty power known.

• ⁹He rebuked the Red Sea *or, Sea of Reeds also, and it was dried up;
• so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.

• ¹⁰He saved them from the hand of him who hated them,
• and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

• ¹¹The waters covered their adversaries.
• There was not one of them left.

• ¹²Then they believed his words.
• They sang his praise.

• ¹³They soon forgot his works.
• They didn’t wait for his counsel,
• ¹⁴but gave in to craving in the desert,
• and tested God in the wasteland.

• ¹⁵He gave them their request,
• but sent leanness into their soul.

• ¹⁶They envied Moses also in the camp,
• and Aaron, Yahweh’s saint.

• ¹⁷The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
• and covered the company of Abiram.

• ¹⁸A fire was kindled in their company.
• The flame burned up the wicked.

• ¹⁹They made a calf in Horeb,
• and worshiped a molten image.

• ²⁰Thus they exchanged their glory
• for an image of a bull that eats grass.

• ²¹They forgot God, their Savior,
• who had done great things in Egypt,
• ²²Wondrous works in the land of Ham,
• and awesome things by the Red Sea *or, Sea of Reeds.

• ²³Therefore he said that he would destroy them,
• had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach,
• to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.

• ²⁴Yes, they despised the pleasant land.
• They didn’t believe his word,
• ²⁵but murmured in their tents,
• and didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice.

• ²⁶Therefore he swore to them
• that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,
• ²⁷that he would overthrow their seed among the nations,
• and scatter them in the lands.

• ²⁸They joined themselves also to Baal Peor,
• and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

• ²⁹Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds.
• The plague broke in on them.

• ³⁰Then Phinehas stood up, and executed judgment,
• so the plague was stopped.

• ³¹That was credited to him for righteousness,
• for all generations to come.

• ³²They angered him also at the waters of Meribah,
• so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;

• ³³because they were rebellious against his spirit,
• he spoke rashly with his lips.

• ³⁴They didn’t destroy the peoples,
• as Yahweh commanded them,
• ³⁵but mixed themselves with the nations,
• and learned their works.

• ³⁶They served their idols,
• which became a snare to them.

• ³⁷Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
• ³⁸They shed innocent blood,
• even the blood of their sons and of their daughters,
• whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan.
• The land was polluted with blood.

• ³⁹Thus were they defiled with their works,
• and prostituted themselves in their deeds.

• ⁴⁰Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his people.
• He abhorred his inheritance.

• ⁴¹He gave them into the hand of the nations.
• Those who hated them ruled over them.

• ⁴²Their enemies also oppressed them.
• They were brought into subjection under their hand.

• ⁴³Many times he delivered them,
• but they were rebellious in their counsel,
• and were brought low in their iniquity.

• ⁴⁴Nevertheless he regarded their distress,
• when he heard their cry.

• ⁴⁵He remembered for them his covenant,
• and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

• ⁴⁶He made them also to be pitied
• by all those who carried them captive.

• ⁴⁷Save us, Yahweh, our God,
• gather us from among the nations,
• to give thanks to your holy name,
• to triumph in your praise!

• ⁴⁸Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,
• from everlasting even to everlasting!

• Let all the people say, “Amen.”

• Praise Yah!

BOOK V