⁸ 
He has remembered His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded and established to a ^[a]thousand generations,
⁹ 
The covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His sworn oath to Isaac,^(B)
10 
Which He confirmed to Jacob as a statute,
To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
¹¹ 
Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
As the measured portion of your inheritance.”
¹² 
When there were only a few men in number,
Very few [in fact], and strangers in it;
¹³ 
And they wandered from one nation to another,
From one kingdom to another people,
¹⁴ 
He allowed no man to oppress them;
He rebuked kings for their sakes, saying,^(C)
15 
“Do not touch My anointed ones,
And do My prophets no harm.”^(D)

¹⁶ 
And He called for a famine upon the land [of Egypt];
He ^[b]cut off every source of bread.^(E)
17 
He sent a man before them,
Joseph, who was sold as a slave.^(F)
18 
His feet they hurt with shackles;
^[c]He was put in chains of iron,
¹⁹ 
Until the time that his word [of prophecy regarding his brothers] came true,
The word of the Lord tested and refined him.
²⁰ 
The king sent and released him,
The ruler of the peoples [of Egypt], and set him free.
²¹ 
He made Joseph lord of his house
And ruler of all his possessions,^(G)
22 
To imprison his princes at his will,
That he might teach his elders wisdom.
²³ 
Israel also came into Egypt;
Thus Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.^(H)
24 
There the Lord greatly increased [the number of] His people,
And made them more powerful than their enemies.

²⁵ 
He turned the heart [of the Egyptians] to hate His people,
To deal craftily with His servants.
²⁶ 
He sent Moses His servant,
And Aaron, whom He had chosen.
²⁷ 
They exhibited His wondrous signs among them,
Great miracles in the land of Ham (Egypt).
²⁸ 
He sent [thick, oppressive] darkness and made the land dark;
And Moses and Aaron did not rebel against His words.^(I)
29 
He turned Egypt’s waters into blood
And caused their fish to die.^(J)
30 
Their land swarmed with frogs,
Even in the chambers of their kings.^(K)
31 
He spoke, and there came swarms of flies
And gnats in all their territory.^(L)
32 
He gave them hail for rain,
With flaming fire in their land.^(M)
33 
He struck their vines also and their fig trees,
And shattered the [ice-laden] trees of their territory.^(N)
34 
He spoke, and the [migratory] locusts came,
And the young locusts, even without number,^(O)
35 
And ate up all the vegetation in their land,
And devoured the fruit of their ground.
³⁶ 
He also struck down all the firstborn in their land,
The first fruits and chief substance of all their strength.^(P)

³⁷ 
He brought the sons of Israel out [of Egypt] with silver and gold,
And among their tribes there was not one who stumbled.^(Q)
38 
Egypt was glad when they departed,
For the dread and fear of them had fallen on the Egyptians.^(R)
39 
The Lord spread a cloud as a covering [by day],
And a fire to illumine the night.^(S)
40 
The Israelites asked, and He brought quail,
And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.^(T)
41 
He opened the rock and water flowed out;
It ran in the dry places like a river.^(U)
42 
For He remembered His holy word
To Abraham His servant;^(V)
43 
He brought out His people with joy,
And His chosen ones with a joyful shout,
⁴⁴ 
He gave them the lands of the nations [of Canaan],
So that they would possess the fruits of those peoples’ labor,^(W)
45 
So that they might observe His precepts
And keep His laws [obediently accepting and honoring and valuing them].
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

⁴ 
Remember me, O Lord, when You favor Your people.
Visit me with Your salvation [when You rescue them],
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 inheritance.

⁶ 
We have sinned like our fathers;
We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.^(Y)
7 
Our fathers in Egypt did not understand nor appreciate Your miracles;
They did not remember the abundance of Your mercies nor imprint Your lovingkindnesses on their hearts,
But they were rebellious at the sea, at the ^[d]Red Sea.^(Z)
8 
Nevertheless He saved them for His name’s sake,
That He might make His [supreme] power known.
⁹ 
He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;
And He led them through the depths as through a pasture.^(AA)
10 
So He saved them from the hand of the one that hated them,
And redeemed them from the hand of the [Egyptian] enemy.^(AB)
11 
And the waters covered their adversaries;
Not one of them was left.^(AC)
12 
Then Israel believed in [the validity of] His words;
They sang His praise.

¹³ 
But they quickly forgot His works;
They did not [patiently] wait for His counsel and purpose [to be revealed regarding them],
¹⁴ 
But lusted intensely in the wilderness
And tempted God [with their insistent desires] in the desert.^(AD)
15 
So He gave them their request,
But sent a wasting disease among them.^(AE)

¹⁶ 
They envied Moses in the camp,
And Aaron [the high priest], the holy one of the Lord,^(AF)
17 
Therefore the earth opened and swallowed Dathan,
And engulfed the company of Abiram.^(AG)
18 
And a fire broke out in their company;
The flame consumed the wicked.^(AH)

¹⁹ 
They made a calf in Horeb (Sinai)
And worshiped a cast image.^(AI)
20 
Thus they exchanged [the true God who was] their glory
For the image of an ox that eats grass.
²¹ 
They forgot God their Savior,
Who had done such great things in Egypt,
²² 
Wonders in the land of Ham,
Awesome things at the Red Sea.
²³ 
Therefore He said He would destroy them,
[And He would have done so] had not Moses, His chosen one, stepped into the gap before Him,
To turn away His wrath from destroying them.^(AJ)
24 
Then they despised the pleasant land [of Canaan];
They did not believe in His word nor rely on it,
²⁵ 
But they sulked and complained in their tents;
They did not listen to the voice of the Lord.
²⁶ 
Therefore He lifted up His hand [swearing] to them,
That He would cause them to fall in the wilderness,
²⁷ 
And that He would cast out their descendants among the nations
And scatter them in the lands [of the earth].

²⁸ 
They joined themselves also to [the idol] Baal of Peor,
And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
²⁹ 
Thus they provoked Him to anger with their practices,
And a plague broke out among them.
³⁰ 
Then Phinehas [the priest] stood up and ^[e]interceded,
And so the plague was halted.^(AK)
31 
And that was credited to him for righteousness,
To all generations forever.

³² 
They provoked Him to anger at the waters of ^[f]Meribah,
So that it went hard with Moses on their account;^(AL)
33 
Because they were rebellious against His Spirit,
Moses spoke recklessly with his lips.

³⁴ 
They did not destroy the [pagan] peoples [in Canaan],
As the Lord commanded them,
³⁵ 
But they mingled with the [idolatrous] nations
And learned their ways,
³⁶ 
And served their idols,
Which became a [dreadful] snare to them.
³⁷ 
They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons^(AM)
38 
And shed innocent blood,
Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters,
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
And the land was polluted with their blood.
³⁹ 
In this way they became unclean in their practices;
They played the prostitute in their own deeds [by giving their worship, which belongs to God alone, to other “gods”].

⁴⁰ 
Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against His people
And He detested His own ^[g]inheritance.^(AN)
41 
He gave them into the hands of the nations,
And those who hated them ruled over them.
⁴² 
Their enemies also oppressed them,
And they were subdued under the [powerful] hand of their enemies.
⁴³ 
Many times He rescued them;
But they were rebellious in their counsel,
And sank down in their wickedness.

⁴⁴ 
Nevertheless He looked [sympathetically] at their distress
When He heard their cry;
⁴⁵ 
And He remembered His covenant for their sake,
And relented [rescinding their sentence] according to the greatness of His lovingkindness [when they cried out to Him],
⁴⁶ 
He also made them objects of compassion
Among those who had carried them away captive.^(AO)

⁴⁷ 
Save us, O Lord our God,
And gather us from among the nations,
That we may give thanks to Your holy name
And glory in praising You.
⁴⁸ 
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
From everlasting even to everlasting.
And let all the people say, “Amen.”
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)^(AP)