Book of Common Prayer

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.^(B)
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 ^[a]Red Sea.^(C)
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.^(D)
10 
So He saved them from the hand of the one that hated them,
And redeemed them from the hand of the [Egyptian] enemy.^(E)
11 
And the waters covered their adversaries;
Not one of them was left.^(F)
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.^(G)
15 
So He gave them their request,
But sent a wasting disease among them.^(H)

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

¹⁹ 
They made a calf in Horeb (Sinai)
And worshiped a cast image.^(L)
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.^(M)
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 ^[b]interceded,
And so the plague was halted.^(N)
31 
And that was credited to him for righteousness,
To all generations forever.

³² 
They provoked Him to anger at the waters of ^[c]Meribah,
So that it went hard with Moses on their account;^(O)
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^(P)
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 ^[d]inheritance.^(Q)
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.^(R)

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!)^(S)

¹³ 
Happy [blessed, considered fortunate, to be admired] is the man who finds [skillful and godly] wisdom,
And the man who gains understanding and insight [learning from God’s word and life’s experiences],
¹⁴ 
For wisdom’s profit is better than the profit of silver,
And her gain is better than fine gold.
¹⁵ 
She is more precious than rubies;
And nothing you can wish for compares with her [in value].^(B)
16 
Long life is in her right hand;
In her left hand are riches and honor.^(C)
17 
Her ways are highways of pleasantness and favor,
And all her paths are peace.
¹⁸ 
She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her,
And happy [blessed, considered fortunate, to be admired] is everyone who holds her tightly.
¹⁹ 
The Lord by His wisdom has founded the earth;
By His understanding He has established the heavens.^(D)
20 
By His knowledge the deeps were broken up
And the clouds drip with dew.