⁵ I ^(A)acknowledged my sin to you,
    and I did not cover my iniquity;
I said, “I ^(B)will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
    and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah

^6 (A)Both we and ^(B)our fathers have sinned;
    we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness.
⁷ Our fathers, when they were in Egypt,
    did not consider your wondrous works;
they ^(C)did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love,
    but ^(D)rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.
⁸ Yet he saved them ^(E)for his name's sake,
    ^(F)that he might make known his mighty power.
⁹ He ^(G)rebuked the Red Sea, and it ^(H)became dry,
    and he ^(I)led them through the deep as through a desert.
¹⁰ So he ^(J)saved them from the hand of the foe
    and ^(K)redeemed them from the power of the enemy.
¹¹ And ^(L)the waters covered their adversaries;
    not one of them was left.
¹² Then ^(M)they believed his words;
    they ^(N)sang his praise.

¹³ But they soon ^(O)forgot his works;
    they did not wait for ^(P)his counsel.
¹⁴ But they had ^(Q)a wanton craving in the wilderness,
    and ^(R)put God to the test in the desert;
¹⁵ he ^(S)gave them what they asked,
    but sent ^(T)a wasting disease among them.

¹⁶ When men in the camp ^(U)were jealous of Moses
    and Aaron, ^(V)the holy one of the Lord,
^17 (W)the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
    and covered the company of Abiram.
^18 (X)Fire also broke out in their company;
    the flame burned up the wicked.

¹⁹ They ^(Y)made a calf in Horeb
    and worshiped a metal image.
²⁰ They ^(Z)exchanged the glory of God^[a]
    for the image of an ox that eats grass.
²¹ They ^(AA)forgot God, their Savior,
    who had done great things in Egypt,
²² wondrous works in ^(AB)the land of Ham,
    and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
²³ Therefore ^(AC)he said he would destroy them—
    had not Moses, his ^(AD)chosen one,
^(AE)stood in the breach before him,
    to turn away his wrath from destroying them.

²⁴ Then they ^(AF)despised ^(AG)the pleasant land,
    having ^(AH)no faith in his promise.
²⁵ They ^(AI)murmured in their tents,
    and did not obey the voice of the Lord.
²⁶ Therefore he ^(AJ)raised his hand and swore to them
    that he would make them fall in the wilderness,
²⁷ and would make their offspring fall among the nations,
    ^(AK)scattering them among the lands.

²⁸ Then they ^(AL)yoked themselves to the ^(AM)Baal of Peor,
    and ate sacrifices offered to ^(AN)the dead;
²⁹ they provoked the Lord to anger with their deeds,
    and a plague broke out among them.
³⁰ Then ^(AO)Phinehas stood up and intervened,
    and the plague was stayed.
³¹ And that was ^(AP)counted to him as righteousness
    from generation to generation forever.

³² They ^(AQ)angered him at the waters of Meribah,
    and it went ill with Moses on their account,
³³ for they ^(AR)made his spirit bitter,^[b]
    and he ^(AS)spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴ They did not ^(AT)destroy the peoples,
    ^(AU)as the Lord commanded them,
³⁵ but they ^(AV)mixed with the nations
    and learned to do as they did.
³⁶ They served their idols,
    which became ^(AW)a snare to them.
³⁷ They ^(AX)sacrificed their sons
    and their daughters to ^(AY)the demons;
³⁸ they poured out innocent blood,
    the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
    and the land was ^(AZ)polluted with blood.
³⁹ Thus they ^(BA)became unclean by their acts,
    and ^(BB)played the whore in their deeds.

⁴⁰ Then ^(BC)the anger of the Lord was kindled against ^(BD)his people,
    and he abhorred his ^(BE)heritage;
⁴¹ he ^(BF)gave them into the hand of the nations,
    so that those who hated them ruled over them.
⁴² Their enemies ^(BG)oppressed them,
    and they were brought into subjection under their power.
^43 (BH)Many times he delivered them,
    but they were rebellious in their ^(BI)purposes
    and were ^(BJ)brought low through their iniquity.

⁴⁴ Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress,
    when he ^(BK)heard their cry.
⁴⁵ For their sake he ^(BL)remembered his covenant,
    and ^(BM)relented according to ^(BN)the abundance of his steadfast love.
⁴⁶ He caused them to be ^(BO)pitied
    by all those who held them captive.

^47 (BP)Save us, O Lord our God,
    and ^(BQ)gather us from among the nations,
that we may give thanks to your holy name
    and glory in your praise.

^48 (BR)Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
    from everlasting to everlasting!
^(BS)And let all the people say, “Amen!”
    ^(BT)Praise the Lord!