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Praise the LORD.
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good;
his love endures forever.
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Who can proclaim the
mighty acts of the LORD
or fully declare his praise?
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Blessed are they who
maintain justice,
who constantly do what is right.
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Remember me, O LORD,
when you show favour to your people,
come to my aid when you save them,
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that I may enjoy the
prosperity of your chosen ones,
that I may share in the joy of your nation
and join your inheritance in giving praise.
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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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So he gave them what
they asked for,
but sent a wasting disease upon them.
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In the camp they
grew envious of Moses
and of Aaron, who was consecrated to the LORD.
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The earth opened up
and swallowed Dathan;
it buried the company of Abiram.
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Fire blazed among
their followers;
a flame consumed the wicked.
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At Horeb they made a
calf
and worshiped an idol cast from metal.
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They exchanged their
Glory
for an image of a bull, which eats grass.
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They forgot the God
who saved them,
who had done great things in Egypt,
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miracles in the land
of Ham
and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
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So he said he would
destroy them —
had not Moses, his chosen one,
stood in the breach before him
to keep his wrath from destroying them.
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Then they despised
the pleasant land;
they did not believe his promise.
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They grumbled in
their tents
and did not obey the LORD.
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So he swore to them
with uplifted hand
that he would make them fall in the desert,
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make their
descendants fall among the nations
and scatter them throughout the lands.
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They yoked
themselves to the Baal of Peor
and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods;
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they provoked the
LORD to anger by their wicked deeds,
and a plague broke out among them.
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But Phinehas stood
up and intervened,
and the plague was checked.
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This was credited to
him as righteousness
for endless generations to come.
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By the waters of
Meribah they angered the LORD,
and trouble came to Moses because of them;
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for they rebelled
against the Spirit of God,
and rash words came from Moses’ lips.
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They did not destroy
the peoples
as the LORD had commanded them,
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but they mingled
with the nations
and adopted their customs.
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They worshiped their
idols,
which became a snare to them.
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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 with 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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Praise be to the
LORD, the God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting.
Let all the people say, “Amen!”
Praise the LORD.
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