^{1 Ref} Praise ye Jah, give thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age, `is' His kindness.

^{2 Ref} Who doth utter the mighty acts of Jehovah? Soundeth all His praise?

^{3 Ref} O the happiness of those keeping judgment, Doing righteousness at all times.

^{4 Ref} Remember me, O Jehovah, With the favour of Thy people, Look after me in Thy salvation.

^{5 Ref} To look on the good of Thy chosen ones, To rejoice in the joy of Thy nation, To boast myself with Thine inheritance.

^{6 Ref} We have sinned with our fathers, We have done perversely, we have done wickedly.

^{7 Ref} 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 Ref} And He saveth them for His name's sake, To make known His might,

^{9 Ref} And rebuketh the sea of Suph, and it is dried up, And causeth them to go Through depths as a wilderness.

^{10 Ref} And He saveth them from the hand Of him who is hating, And redeemeth them from the hand of the enemy.

^{11 Ref} And waters cover their adversaries, One of them hath not been left.

^{12 Ref} And they believe in His words, they sing His praise,

^{13 Ref} They have hasted -- forgotten His works, They have not waited for His counsel.

^{14 Ref} And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert.

^{15 Ref} And He giveth to them their request, And sendeth leanness into their soul.

^{16 Ref} And they are envious of Moses in the camp, Of Aaron, Jehovah's holy one.

^{17 Ref} Earth openeth, and swalloweth up Dathan, And covereth over the company of Abiram.

^{18 Ref} And fire burneth among their company, A flame setteth on fire the wicked.

^{19 Ref} They make a calf in Horeb, And bow themselves to a molten image,

^{20 Ref} And change their Honour Into the form of an ox eating herbs.

^{21 Ref} They have forgotten God their saviour, The doer of great things in Egypt,

^{22 Ref} Of wonderful things in the land of Ham, Of fearful things by the sea of Suph.

^{23 Ref} 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 Ref} And they kick against the desirable land, They have not given credence to His word.

^{25 Ref} And they murmur in their tents, They have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah.

^{26 Ref} And He lifteth up His hand to them, To cause them to fall in a wilderness,

^{27 Ref} And to cause their seed to fall among nations, And to scatter them through lands.

^{28 Ref} And they are coupled to Baal-Peor, And eat the sacrifices of the dead,

^{29 Ref} And they provoke to anger by their actions, And a plague breaketh forth upon them,

^{30 Ref} And Phinehas standeth, and executeth judgment, And the plague is restrained,

^{31 Ref} And it is reckoned to him to righteousness, To all generations -- unto the age.

^{32 Ref} And they cause wrath by the waters of Meribah, And it is evil to Moses for their sakes,

^{33 Ref} For they have provoked his spirit, And he speaketh wrongfully with his lips.

^{34 Ref} They have not destroyed the peoples, As Jehovah had said to them,

^{35 Ref} And mix themselves among nations, and learn their works,

^{36 Ref} And serve their idols, And they are to them for a snare.

^{37 Ref} And they sacrifice their sons And their daughters to destroyers,

^{38 Ref} 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 Ref} And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.

^{40 Ref} And the anger of Jehovah Is kindled against His people, And He doth abominate His inheritance.

^{41 Ref} And giveth them into the hand of nations, And those hating them rule over them,

^{42 Ref} And their enemies oppress them, And they are humbled under their hand.

^{43 Ref} Many times He doth deliver them, And they rebel in their counsel, And they are brought low in their iniquity.

^{44 Ref} And He looketh on their distress When He heareth their cry,

^{45 Ref} And remembereth for them His covenant, And is comforted, According to the abundance of His kindness.

^{46 Ref} And He appointeth them for mercies Before all their captors.

^{47 Ref} 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 Ref} Blessed `is' Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age even unto the age. And all the people said, `Amen, praise Jah!'