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| 1 Praise ye Yah, Give ye thanks to Yahweh–For he is good, For age-abiding, is his lovingkindness. |
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| 2 Who can relate the mighty deeds of Yahweh? can cause to be heard, all his praise? |
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| 3 How happy! They who observe justice, He that executeth righteousness at all times. |
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| 4 Remember me, O Yahweh, when thou acceptest thy people, Visit me, with thy salvation; |
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| 5 That I may look upon the welfare of thy chosen ones, That I may rejoice in the joy of thy nation, That I may glory, with thine inheritance. |
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| 6 We have sinned–with our fathers, We have acted perversely, we have committed lawlessness; |
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| 7 Our fathers, in Egypt, understood not thy wonders, They remembered not the abounding of thy lovingkindnesses, but rebelled by the sea–at the Red Sea. |
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| 8 Yet he saved them, for the sake of his Name, to make known his mighty power; |
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| 9 So he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up, And he led them through deeps, as pasture-land; |
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| 10 And saved them from the hand of one full of hatred, And redeemed them out of the hand of the foe; |
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| 11 So the waters covered their adversaries, Not one from among them, was left. |
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| 12 They believed therefore in his words, They sang his praise. |
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| 13 Soon forgat they his works,–They waited not for his counsel; |
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| 14 But lusted a lust in the desert, and tested GOD in the waste. |
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| 15 So he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul. |
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| 16 And they became jealous of Moses in the camp,–of Aaron the holy one of Yahweh; |
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| 17 The earth opened and engulfed Dathan, and covered up the assembly of Abiram; |
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| 18 Then was kindled a fire in their assembly,–a flame, consumed the lawless ones. |
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| 19 They made a calf in Horeb,–and bowed down to a molten image; |
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| 20 Thus changed they my glory, for the similitude of an ox that eateth grass. |
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| 21 They forgat GOD their saviour, who had done great things in Egypt: |
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| 22 Wonders in the land of Ham, Terrible things by the Red Sea. |
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| 23 Then would he have bidden to destroy them,–had not Moses his chosen, stood in the breach before him, To turn back his wrath from destroying. |
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| 24 And they refused the delightful land, They believed not his word; |
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| 25 But murmured in their tents,–They hearkened not unto the voice of Yahweh. |
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| 26 So he lifted up his hand unto them, that he would let them fall in the desert; |
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| 27 And would disperse their seed among the nations, and would scatter them throughout the lands. |
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| 28 Yet they let themselves be bound to Baal-peor,–and did eat sacrifices to the dead: |
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| 29 So they provoked to anger by their doings, and a plague, made a breach among them. |
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| 30 Then stood up Phinehas, and interposed, and stayed was the plague: |
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| 31 So it was counted unto him, for righteousness, To generation after generation, unto times age abiding. |
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| 32 And they provoked by the waters of Meribah,–And it fared ill with Moses, for their sakes;
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| 33 For they embittered his spirit, and he spake rashly with his lips. |
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| 34 They destroyed not the peoples of which Yahweh had spoken to them; |
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| 35 But had fellowship with the nations, and learned their doings; |
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| 36 Yea they served their idols, and they became to them a snare: |
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| 37 Yea they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to mischievous demons; |
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| 38 And poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, And the land was polluted with blood-shed; |
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| 39 And they became unclean by their works, and became unchaste in their doings. |
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| 40 Then was kindled the anger of Yahweh with his people, and he abhorred his own inheritance. |
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| 41 So he delivered them up into the hand of the nations, And they who hated them, had dominion over them; |
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| 42 And their enemies oppressed them, And they were bowed down under their hand. |
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| 43 Many times, did he rescue them,–But, they, rebelled by their counsel, and sank low in their iniquity. |
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| 44 Then looked he on the distress which befell them,–when he heard their loud cry; |
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| 45 Then remembered he, for them, his covenant, and was moved to pity, according to the abounding of his lovingkindnesses; |
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| 46 And granted them compassion before all their captors. |
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| 47 Save us, O Yahweh our God, and gather us from among the nations, That we may give thanks unto thy holy Name, That we may triumph aloud in thy praise. |
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| 48 Blessed be Yahweh, God of Israel, from one age even unto another, And all the people, shall say, Amen! Praise ye Yah! |
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