“Stand up and bless the Lord your God
Forever and ever!

“Blessed be ^(F)Your glorious name,
Which is exalted above all blessing and praise!
^6 (G)You alone are the Lord;
^(H)You have made heaven,
^(I)The heaven of heavens, with ^(J)all their host,
The earth and everything on it,
The seas and all that is in them,
And You ^(K)preserve them all.
The host of heaven worships You.

⁷ “You are the Lord God,
Who chose ^(L)Abram,
And brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans,
And gave him the name ^(M)Abraham;
⁸ You found his heart ^(N)faithful before You,
And made a ^(O)covenant with him
To give the land of the Canaanites,
The Hittites, the Amorites,
The Perizzites, the Jebusites,
And the Girgashites—
To give it to his descendants.
You ^(P)have performed Your words,
For You are righteous.

⁹ “You^(Q) saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt,
And ^(R)heard their cry by the Red Sea.
¹⁰ You ^(S)showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh,
Against all his servants,
And against all the people of his land.
For You knew that they ^(T)acted ^[c]proudly against them.
So You ^(U)made a name for Yourself, as it is this day.
^11 (V)And You divided the sea before them,
So that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land;
And their persecutors You threw into the deep,
^(W)As a stone into the mighty waters.
¹² Moreover You ^(X)led them by day with a cloudy pillar,
And by night with a pillar of fire,
To give them light on the road
Which they should travel.

¹³ “You^(Y) came down also on Mount Sinai,
And spoke with them from heaven,
And gave them ^(Z)just ordinances and true laws,
Good statutes and commandments.
¹⁴ You made known to them Your ^(AA)holy Sabbath,
And commanded them precepts, statutes and laws,
By the hand of Moses Your servant.
¹⁵ You ^(AB)gave them bread from heaven for their hunger,
And ^(AC)brought them water out of the rock for their thirst,
And told them to ^(AD)go in to possess the land
Which You had ^[d]sworn to give them.

¹⁶ “But^(AE) they and our fathers acted ^[e]proudly,
^(AF)Hardened^[f] their necks,
And did not heed Your commandments.
¹⁷ They refused to obey,
And ^(AG)they were not mindful of Your wonders
That You did among them.
But they hardened their necks,
And ^[g]in their rebellion
They appointed ^(AH)a leader
To return to their bondage.
But You are God,
Ready to pardon,
^(AI)Gracious and merciful,
Slow to anger,
Abundant in kindness,
And did not forsake them.

¹⁸ “Even ^(AJ)when they made a molded calf for themselves,
And said, ‘This is your god
That brought you up out of Egypt,’
And worked great provocations,
¹⁹ Yet in Your ^(AK)manifold mercies
You did not forsake them in the wilderness.
The ^(AL)pillar of the cloud did not depart from them by day,
To lead them on the road;
Nor the pillar of fire by night,
To show them light,
And the way they should go.
²⁰ You also gave Your ^(AM)good Spirit to instruct them,
And did not withhold Your ^(AN)manna from their mouth,
And gave them ^(AO)water for their thirst.
^21 (AP)Forty years You sustained them in the wilderness;
They lacked nothing;
Their ^(AQ)clothes did not wear out
And their feet did not swell.

²² “Moreover You gave them kingdoms and nations,
And divided them into ^[h]districts.
So they took possession of the land of ^(AR)Sihon,
^[i]The land of the king of Heshbon,
And the land of Og king of Bashan.
²³ You also multiplied ^(AS)their children as the stars of heaven,
And brought them into the land
Which You had told their fathers
To go in and possess.

²⁶ “Nevertheless they ^(G)were disobedient
And rebelled against You,
^(H)Cast Your law behind their backs
And killed Your ^(I)prophets, who ^[c]testified against them
To turn them to Yourself;
And they worked great provocations.
^27 (J)Therefore You delivered them into the hand of their enemies,
Who oppressed them;
And in the time of their trouble,
When they cried to You,
You ^(K)heard from heaven;
And according to Your abundant mercies
^(L)You gave them deliverers who saved them
From the hand of their enemies.

²⁸ “But after they had rest,
^(M)They again did evil before You.
Therefore You left them in the hand of their enemies,
So that they had dominion over them;
Yet when they returned and cried out to You,
You heard from heaven;
And ^(N)many times You delivered them according to Your mercies,
²⁹ And ^[d]testified against them,
That You might bring them back to Your law.
Yet they acted ^[e]proudly,
And did not heed Your commandments,
But sinned against Your judgments,
^(O)‘Which if a man does, he shall live by them.’
And they shrugged their shoulders,
^[f]Stiffened their necks,
And would not hear.
³⁰ Yet for many years You had patience with them,
And ^[g]testified ^(P)against them by Your Spirit ^(Q)in Your prophets.
Yet they would not listen;
^(R)Therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
³¹ Nevertheless in Your great mercy
^(S)You did not utterly consume them nor forsake them;
For You are God, gracious and merciful.

³² “Now therefore, our God,
The great, the ^(T)mighty, and awesome God,
Who keeps covenant and mercy:
Do not let all the ^[h]trouble seem small before You
That has come upon us,
Our kings and our princes,
Our priests and our prophets,
Our fathers and on all Your people,
^(U)From the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.
³³ However ^(V)You are just in all that has befallen us;
For You have dealt faithfully,
But ^(W)we have done wickedly.
³⁴ Neither our kings nor our princes,
Our priests nor our fathers,
Have kept Your law,
Nor heeded Your commandments and Your testimonies,
With which You testified against them.
³⁵ For they have ^(X)not served You in their kingdom,
Or in the many good things that You gave them,
Or in the large and rich land which You set before them;
Nor did they turn from their wicked works.

³⁶ “Here ^(Y)we are, servants today!
And the land that You gave to our fathers,
To eat its fruit and its bounty,
Here we are, servants in it!
³⁷ And ^(Z)it yields much increase to the kings
You have set over us,
Because of our sins;
Also they have ^(AA)dominion over our bodies and our cattle
At their pleasure;
And we are in great distress.

³⁸ “And because of all this,
We ^(AB)make a sure covenant and write it;
Our leaders, our Levites, and our priests ^(AC)seal it.”