⁴ Remember me, O Lord, in Your favor ^[e]toward Your people;
Visit me with Your salvation,
⁵ That I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones,
That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation,
That I may glory with Your ^[f]inheritance.

⁶ We have sinned ^[g]like our fathers,
We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.
⁷ Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your ^[h]wonders;
They did not remember ^[i]Your abundant kindnesses,
But rebelled by the sea, at the ^[j]Red Sea.
⁸ Nevertheless He saved them for the sake of His name,
That He might make His power known.
⁹ Thus He rebuked the ^[k]Red Sea and it dried up,
And He led them through the deeps, as through the wilderness.
¹⁰ So He saved them from the ^[l]hand of the one who hated them,
And redeemed them from the ^[m]hand of the enemy.
¹¹ The waters covered their adversaries;
Not one of them was left.
¹² Then they believed His words;
They sang His praise.

¹³ They quickly forgot His works;
They did not wait for His counsel,
¹⁴ But craved intensely in the wilderness,
And ^[n]tempted God in the desert.
¹⁵ So He gave them their request,
But sent a ^[o]wasting disease among them.

¹⁶ When they became envious of Moses in the camp,
And of Aaron, the holy one of the Lord,
¹⁷ The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
And engulfed the ^[p]company of Abiram.
¹⁸ And a fire blazed up in their ^[q]company;
The flame consumed the wicked.

¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb
And worshiped a molten image.
²⁰ Thus they exchanged their glory
For the image of an ox that eats grass.
²¹ They forgot God their Savior,
Who had done great things in Egypt,
^22 [r]Wonders in the land of Ham
And awesome things by the ^[s]Red Sea.
²³ Therefore He said that He would destroy them,
Had not Moses His chosen one stood in the breach before Him,
To turn away His wrath from destroying them.
²⁴ Then they despised the pleasant land;
They did not believe in His word,
²⁵ But grumbled in their tents;
They did not listen to the voice of the Lord.
²⁶ Therefore He ^[t]swore to them
That He would cast them down in the wilderness,
²⁷ And that He would cast their seed among the nations
And scatter them in the lands.

²⁸ They joined themselves also to ^[u]Baal-peor,
And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
²⁹ Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds,
And the plague broke out among them.
³⁰ Then Phinehas stood up and interposed,
And so the plague was stayed.
³¹ And it was reckoned to him for righteousness,
To all generations forever.

³² They also provoked Him to wrath at the waters of ^[v]Meribah,
So that it went hard with Moses on their account;
³³ Because they were rebellious against ^[w]His Spirit,
He spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴ They did not destroy the peoples,
As the Lord commanded them,
³⁵ But they mingled with the nations
And learned their ^[x]practices,
³⁶ And served their idols,
Which became a snare to them.
³⁷ They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons,
³⁸ And shed innocent blood,
The blood of their sons and their daughters,
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
And the land was polluted with the blood.
³⁹ Thus they became unclean in their ^[y]practices,
And played the harlot in their deeds.

⁴⁰ Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against His people
And He abhorred His ^[z]inheritance.
⁴¹ Then He gave them into the hand of the ^[aa]nations,
And those who hated them ruled over them.
⁴² Their enemies also oppressed them,
And they were subdued under their ^[ab]power.
⁴³ Many times He would deliver them;
They, however, were rebellious in their counsel,
And so sank down in their iniquity.

⁴⁴ Nevertheless He looked upon their distress
When He heard their cry;
⁴⁵ And He remembered His covenant for their sake,
And ^[ac]relented according to the greatness of His lovingkindness.
⁴⁶ He also made them objects of compassion
In the presence of all their captors.

⁴⁷ Save us, O Lord our God,
And gather us from among the nations,
To give thanks to Your holy name
And ^[ad]glory in Your praise.
⁴⁸ Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
From everlasting even to everlasting.
And let all the people say, “Amen.”
^[ae]Praise ^[af]the Lord!