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Remember his marvelous works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,

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you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

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He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.

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He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

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the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,

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and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute; to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

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saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;”

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when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.

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They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

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He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,

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“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”

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He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.

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He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.

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They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,

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until the time that his word happened, and Yahweh’s word proved him true.

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The king sent and freed him; even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

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He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions;

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to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.

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Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob lived in the land of Ham.

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He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.

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He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.

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He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

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They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

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He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words.

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He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish.

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Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the rooms of their kings.

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He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders.

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He gave them hail for rain, with lightning in their land.

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He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.

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He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, without number,

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ate up every plant in their land; and ate up the fruit of their ground.

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He struck also all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their manhood.

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He brought them forth with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes.

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Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen on them.

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He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.

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They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.

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He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.

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For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.

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He brought forth his people with joy, his chosen with singing.

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He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,

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that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!

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Praise Yahweh! Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

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Who can utter the mighty acts of Yahweh, or fully declare all his praise?

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Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.

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Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation,

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that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your 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 didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

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Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power known.

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He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.

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He saved them from the hand of him who hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

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The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left.

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Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.

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They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,

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but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

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He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.

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They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, Yahweh’s saint.

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

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A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked.

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They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped a molten image.

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Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull that eats grass.

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They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,

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

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Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.

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Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,

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but murmured in their tents, and didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice.

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Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,

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that he would overthrow their seed among the nations, and scatter them in the lands.

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They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

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Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them.

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Then Phinehas stood up, and executed judgment, so the plague was stopped.

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That was credited to him for righteousness, for all generations to come.

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They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;

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because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.

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They didn’t destroy the peoples, as Yahweh commanded them,

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but mixed themselves with the nations, and learned their works.

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They served their idols, which became a snare to them.

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Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

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They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.

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Thus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.

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Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his people. He abhorred his inheritance.

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He gave them into the hand of the nations. Those who hated them ruled over them.

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Their enemies also oppressed them. They were brought into subjection under their hand.

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Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.

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Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.

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He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

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He made them also to be pitied by all those who carried them captive.

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Save us, Yahweh, our God, gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise!

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Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting! Let all the people say, “Amen.” Praise Yah!

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BOOK V

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Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

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Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,

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And gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.

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They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.

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Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

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Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses,

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he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in.

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Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful works to the children of men!

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For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

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Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,