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1 Praise ye Jah, give thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age, [is] His kindness.
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1 Praise the LORD. Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.
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2 Who doth utter the mighty acts of Jehovah? Soundeth all His praise?
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2 Who can proclaim the mighty acts of the LORD or fully declare his praise?
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3 O the happiness of those keeping judgment, Doing righteousness at all times.
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3 Blessed are they who maintain justice, who constantly do what is right.
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4 Remember me, O Jehovah, With the favour of Thy people, Look after me in Thy salvation.
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4 Remember me, O LORD, when you show favor to your people, come to my aid when you save them,
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5 To look on the good of Thy chosen ones, To rejoice in the joy of Thy nation, To boast myself with Thine inheritance.
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5 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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6 We have sinned with our fathers, We have done perversely, we have done wickedly.
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6 We have sinned, even as our fathers did; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
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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.
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7 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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8 And He saveth them for His name's sake, To make known His might,
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8 Yet he saved them for his name's sake, to make his mighty power known.
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9 And rebuketh the sea of Suph, and it is dried up, And causeth them to go Through depths as a wilderness.
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9 He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; he led them through the depths as through a desert.
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10 And He saveth them from the hand Of him who is hating, And redeemeth them from the hand of the enemy.
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10 He saved them from the hand of the foe; from the hand of the enemy he redeemed them.
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11 And waters cover their adversaries, One of them hath not been left.
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11 The waters covered their adversaries; not one of them survived.
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12 And they believe in His words, they sing His praise,
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12 Then they believed his promises and sang his praise.
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13 They have hasted -- forgotten His works, They have not waited for His counsel.
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13 But they soon forgot what he had done and did not wait for his counsel.
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14 And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert.
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14 In the desert they gave in to their craving; in the wasteland they put God to the test.
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15 And He giveth to them their request, And sendeth leanness into their soul.
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15 So he gave them what they asked for, but sent a wasting disease upon them.
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16 And they are envious of Moses in the camp, Of Aaron, Jehovah's holy one.
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16 In the camp they grew envious of Moses and of Aaron, who was consecrated to the LORD.
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17 Earth openeth, and swalloweth up Dathan, And covereth over the company of Abiram.
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17 The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it buried the company of Abiram.
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18 And fire burneth among their company, A flame setteth on fire the wicked.
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18 Fire blazed among their followers; a flame consumed the wicked.
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19 They make a calf in Horeb, And bow themselves to a molten image,
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19 At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped an idol cast from metal.
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20 And change their Honour Into the form of an ox eating herbs.
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20 They exchanged their Glory for an image of a bull, which eats grass.
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21 They have forgotten God their saviour, The doer of great things in Egypt,
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21 They forgot the God who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt,
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22 Of wonderful things in the land of Ham, Of fearful things by the sea of Suph.
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22 miracles in the land of Ham and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
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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.
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23 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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24 And they kick against the desirable land, They have not given credence to His word.
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24 Then they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe his promise.
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25 And they murmur in their tents, They have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah.
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25 They grumbled in their tents and did not obey the LORD.
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26 And He lifteth up His hand to them, To cause them to fall in a wilderness,
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26 So he swore to them with uplifted hand that he would make them fall in the desert,
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27 And to cause their seed to fall among nations, And to scatter them through lands.
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27 make their descendants fall among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.
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28 And they are coupled to Baal-Peor, And eat the sacrifices of the dead,
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28 They yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods;
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29 And they provoke to anger by their actions, And a plague breaketh forth upon them,
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29 they provoked the LORD to anger by their wicked deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
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30 And Phinehas standeth, and executeth judgment, And the plague is restrained,
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30 But Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was checked.
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31 And it is reckoned to him to righteousness, To all generations -- unto the age.
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31 This was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.
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32 And they cause wrath by the waters of Meribah, And it is evil to Moses for their sakes,
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32 By the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them;
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33 For they have provoked his spirit, And he speaketh wrongfully with his lips.
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33 for they rebelled against the Spirit of God, and rash words came from Moses' lips.
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34 They have not destroyed the peoples, As Jehovah had said to them,
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34 They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,
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35 And mix themselves among nations, and learn their works,
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35 but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
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36 And serve their idols, And they are to them for a snare.
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36 They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.
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37 And they sacrifice their sons And their daughters to destroyers,
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37 They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
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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.
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38 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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39 And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.
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39 They defiled themselves by what they did; by their deeds they prostituted themselves.
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40 And the anger of Jehovah Is kindled against His people, And He doth abominate His inheritance.
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40 Therefore the LORD was angry with his people and abhorred his inheritance.
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41 And giveth them into the hand of nations, And those hating them rule over them,
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41 He handed them over to the nations, and their foes ruled over them.
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42 And their enemies oppress them, And they are humbled under their hand.
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42 Their enemies oppressed them and subjected them to their power.
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43 Many times He doth deliver them, And they rebel in their counsel, And they are brought low in their iniquity.
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43 Many times he delivered them, but they were bent on rebellion and they wasted away in their sin.
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44 And He looketh on their distress When He heareth their cry,
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44 But he took note of their distress when he heard their cry;
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45 And remembereth for them His covenant, And is comforted, According to the abundance of His kindness.
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45 for their sake he remembered his covenant and out of his great love he relented.
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46 And He appointeth them for mercies Before all their captors.
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46 He caused them to be pitied by all who held them captive.
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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.
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47 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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48 Blessed [is] Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age even unto the age. And all the people said, `Amen, praise Jah!'
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48 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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