Chapter 106

  Hallelujah! Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever.  

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  Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah? [who] can shew forth all his praise?  

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  Blessed are they that keep justice, [and] he that doeth righteousness at all times.  

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  Remember me, O Jehovah, with [thy] favour toward thy people; visit me with thy salvation:  

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  That I may see the prosperity 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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  We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.  

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  Our fathers in Egypt considered not thy wondrous works; they remembered not the multitude of thy loving-kindnesses; but they rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea.  

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  Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his might.  

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  And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; and he led them through the deeps as through a wilderness.  

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  And he saved them from the hand of him that hated [them], and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.  

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  And the waters covered their oppressors: there was not one of them left.  

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  Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.  

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  They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:  

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  And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted ùGod in the desert.  

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  Then he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.  

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  And they envied Moses in the camp, [and] Aaron, the saint of Jehovah.  

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  The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram;  

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  And fire was kindled in their company; a flame burned up the wicked.  

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  They made a calf in Horeb, and did homage to a molten image;  

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  And they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.  

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  They forgot ùGod their Saviour, who had done great things in Egypt,  

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  Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.  

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  And he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the breach, to turn away his fury, lest he should destroy [them].  

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  And they despised the pleasant land; they believed not his word,  

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  But murmured in their tents: they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah.  

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  And he lifted up his hand to them, that he would make them fall in the wilderness;  

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  And that he would make their seed fall among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.  

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  And they joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead;  

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  And they provoked [him] to anger with their doings; and a plague broke out among them.  

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  Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment, and the plague was stayed;  

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  And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness, from generation to generation, for evermore.  

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  And they moved him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account;  

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  For they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.  

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  They did not destroy the peoples, as Jehovah commanded them;  

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  But they mingled with the nations, and learned their works;  

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  And they served their idols; and they were a snare unto them:  

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  And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,  

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  And shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.  

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  And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings.  

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  Then was the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance;  

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  And he gave them into the hand of the nations; and they that hated them ruled over them:  

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  And their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.  

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  Often did he deliver them; but as for them they provoked [him] by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquity.  

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  But he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry;  

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  And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses;  

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  And he caused them to find compassion of all those that had carried them captives.  

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  Save us, Jehovah our God, and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks unto thy holy name, [and] to triumph in thy praise.  

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  Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, from eternity and to eternity! And let all the people say, Amen! Hallelujah!  

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