| Scripture |
Additional Comments |
| 1 Praise ye Jah, give thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age, [is] His kindness. |
|
| 2 Who 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 Remember me, O Jehovah, With the favour of Thy people, Look after me in Thy salvation. |
|
| 5 To look on the good of Thy chosen ones, To rejoice in the joy of Thy nation, To boast myself with Thine inheritance. |
|
| 6 We have sinned with our fathers, We have done perversely, we have done wickedly. |
|
| 7 Our 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 And He saveth them for His name's sake, To make known His might, |
|
| 9 And rebuketh the sea of Suph, and it is dried up, And causeth them to go Through depths as a wilderness. |
|
| 10 And He saveth them from the hand Of him who is hating, And redeemeth them from the hand of the enemy. |
|
| 11 And waters cover their adversaries, One of them hath not been left. |
|
| 12 And they believe in His words, they sing His praise, |
|
| 13 They have hasted forgotten His works, They have not waited for His counsel. |
|
| 14 And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert. |
|
| 15 And He giveth to them their request, And sendeth leanness into their soul. |
|
| 16 And they are envious of Moses in the camp, Of Aaron, Jehovah's holy one. |
|
| 17 Earth openeth, and swalloweth up Dathan, And covereth over the company of Abiram. |
|
| 18 And fire burneth among their company, A flame setteth on fire the wicked. |
|
| 19 They make a calf in Horeb, And bow themselves to a molten image, |
|
| 20 And change their Honour Into the form of an ox eating herbs. |
|
| 21 They have forgotten God their saviour, The doer of great things in Egypt, |
|
| 22 Of wonderful things in the land of Ham, Of fearful things by the sea of Suph. |
|
| 23 And 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 And they kick against the desirable land, They have not given credence to His word. |
|
| 25 And they murmur in their tents, They have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah. |
|
| 26 And He lifteth up His hand to them, To cause them to fall in a wilderness, |
|
| 27 And to cause their seed to fall among nations, And to scatter them through lands. |
|
| 28 And they are coupled to Baal-Peor, And eat the sacrifices of the dead, |
|
| 29 And they provoke to anger by their actions, And a plague breaketh forth upon them, |
|
| 30 And Phinehas standeth, and executeth judgment, And the plague is restrained, |
|
| 31 And it is reckoned to him to righteousness, To all generations unto the age. |
|
| 32 And they cause wrath by the waters of Meribah, And it is evil to Moses for their sakes, |
|
| 33 For they have provoked his spirit, And he speaketh wrongfully with his lips. |
|
| 34 They have not destroyed the peoples, As Jehovah had said to them, |
|
| 35 And mix themselves among nations, and learn their works, |
|
| 36 And serve their idols, And they are to them for a snare. |
|
| 37 And they sacrifice their sons And their daughters to destroyers, |
|
| 38 And 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 And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings. |
|
| 40 And the anger of Jehovah Is kindled against His people, And He doth abominate His inheritance. |
|
| 41 And giveth them into the hand of nations, And those hating them rule over them, |
|
| 42 And their enemies oppress them, And they are humbled under their hand. |
|
| 43 Many times He doth deliver them, And they rebel in their counsel, And they are brought low in their iniquity. |
|
| 44 And He looketh on their distress When He heareth their cry, |
|
| 45 And remembereth for them His covenant, And is comforted, According to the abundance of His kindness. |
|
| 46 And He appointeth them for mercies Before all their captors. |
|
| 47 Save us, O Jehovah our God, and gather us from the nations, To give thanks to Thy holy name, To glory in Thy praise. |
|
| 48 Blessed [is] Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age even unto the age. And all the people said, 'Amen, praise Jah!' |
|