Old/New Testament

⁷ He is the Lord our God;
^(G)His judgments are in all the earth.
⁸ He ^(H)remembers His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded, for a thousand generations,
^9 (I)The covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His oath to Isaac,
¹⁰ And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,
To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
¹¹ Saying, ^(J)“To you I will give the land of Canaan
As the allotment of your inheritance,”
^12 (K)When they were few in number,
Indeed very few, ^(L)and strangers in it.

¹³ When they went from one nation to another,
From one kingdom to another people,
^14 (M)He permitted no one to do them wrong;
Yes, ^(N)He rebuked kings for their sakes,
¹⁵ Saying, “Do not touch My anointed ones,
And do My prophets no harm.”

¹⁶ Moreover ^(O)He called for a famine in the land;
He destroyed all the ^(P)provision of bread.
^17 (Q)He sent a man before them—
Joseph—who ^(R)was sold as a slave.
^18 (S)They hurt his feet with fetters,
^[a]He was laid in irons.
¹⁹ Until the time that his word came to pass,
^(T)The word of the Lord tested him.
^20 (U)The king sent and released him,
The ruler of the people let him go free.
^21 (V)He made him lord of his house,
And ruler of all his possessions,
²² To ^[b]bind his princes at his pleasure,
And teach his elders wisdom.

^23 (W)Israel also came into Egypt,
And Jacob dwelt ^(X)in the land of Ham.
^24 (Y)He increased His people greatly,
And made them stronger than their enemies.
^25 (Z)He turned their heart to hate His people,
To deal craftily with His servants.

^26 (AA)He sent Moses His servant,
And Aaron whom He had chosen.
²⁷ They ^(AB)performed His signs among them,
And wonders in the land of Ham.
²⁸ He sent darkness, and made it dark;
And they did not rebel against His word.
^29 (AC)He turned their waters into blood,
And killed their fish.
^30 (AD)Their land abounded with frogs,
Even in the chambers of their kings.
^31 (AE)He spoke, and there came swarms of flies,
And lice in all their territory.
^32 (AF)He gave them hail for rain,
And flaming fire in their land.
^33 (AG)He struck their vines also, and their fig trees,
And splintered the trees of their territory.
^34 (AH)He spoke, and locusts came,
Young locusts without number,
³⁵ And ate up all the vegetation in their land,
And devoured the fruit of their ground.
^36 (AI)He also ^[c]destroyed all the firstborn in their land,
^(AJ)The first of all their strength.

^37 (AK)He also brought them out with silver and gold,
And there was none feeble among His tribes.
^38 (AL)Egypt was glad when they departed,
For the fear of them had fallen upon them.
^39 (AM)He spread a cloud for a covering,
And fire to give light in the night.
^40 (AN)The people asked, and He brought quail,
And ^(AO)satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
^41 (AP)He opened the rock, and water gushed out;
It ran in the dry places like a river.

⁴² For He remembered ^(AQ)His holy promise,
And Abraham His servant.
⁴³ He brought out His people with joy,
His chosen ones with ^[d]gladness.
^44 (AR)He gave them the lands of the ^[e]Gentiles,
And they inherited the labor of the nations,
^45 (AS)That they might observe His statutes
And keep His laws.

^[f]Praise the Lord!

^(AT)Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!
For His mercy endures forever.

² Who can ^[h]utter the mighty acts of the Lord?
Who can declare all His praise?
³ Blessed are those who keep justice,
And ^[i]he who ^(AU)does righteousness at ^(AV)all times!

^4 (AW)Remember me, O Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people.
Oh, visit me with Your salvation,
⁵ That I may see the benefit of Your chosen ones,
That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation,
That I may glory with ^[j]Your inheritance.

^6 (AX)We have sinned with our fathers,
We have committed iniquity,
We have done wickedly.
⁷ Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders;
They did not remember the multitude of Your mercies,
^(AY)But rebelled by the sea—the Red Sea.

⁸ Nevertheless He saved them for His name’s sake,
^(AZ)That He might make His mighty power known.
^9 (BA)He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it dried up;
So ^(BB)He led them through the depths,
As through the wilderness.
¹⁰ He ^(BC)saved them from the hand of him who hated them,
And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
^11 (BD)The waters covered their enemies;
There was not one of them left.
^12 (BE)Then they believed His words;
They sang His praise.

^13 (BF)They soon forgot His works;
They did not wait for His counsel,
^14 (BG)But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,
And tested God in the desert.
^15 (BH)And He gave them their request,
But ^(BI)sent leanness into their soul.

¹⁶ When ^(BJ)they envied Moses in the camp,
And Aaron the saint of the Lord,
^17 (BK)The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan,
And covered the faction of Abiram.
^18 (BL)A fire was kindled in their company;
The flame burned up the wicked.

^19 (BM)They made a calf in Horeb,
And worshiped the molded image.
²⁰ Thus ^(BN)they changed their glory
Into the image of an ox that eats grass.
²¹ They forgot God their Savior,
Who had done great things in Egypt,
²² Wondrous works in the land of Ham,
Awesome things by the Red Sea.
^23 (BO)Therefore He said that He would destroy them,
Had not Moses His chosen one ^(BP)stood before Him in the breach,
To turn away His wrath, lest He destroy them.

²⁴ Then they despised ^(BQ)the pleasant land;
They ^(BR)did not believe His word,
^25 (BS)But complained in their tents,
And did not heed the voice of the Lord.
^26 (BT)Therefore He raised His hand in an oath against them,
^(BU)To ^[k]overthrow them in the wilderness,
^27 (BV)To ^[l]overthrow their descendants among the ^[m]nations,
And to scatter them in the lands.

^28 (BW)They joined themselves also to Baal of Peor,
And ate sacrifices ^[n]made to the dead.
²⁹ Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds,
And the plague broke out among them.
^30 (BX)Then Phinehas stood up and intervened,
And the plague was stopped.
³¹ And that was accounted to him ^(BY)for righteousness
To all generations forevermore.

^32 (BZ)They angered Him also at the waters of ^[o]strife,
^(CA)So that it went ill with Moses on account of them;
^33 (CB)Because they rebelled against His Spirit,
So that he spoke rashly with his lips.

^34 (CC)They did not destroy the peoples,
^(CD)Concerning whom the Lord had commanded them,
^35 (CE)But they mingled with the Gentiles
And learned their works;
^36 (CF)They served their idols,
^(CG)Which became a snare to them.
^37 (CH)They even sacrificed their sons
And their daughters to ^(CI)demons,
³⁸ And shed innocent blood,
The blood of their sons and daughters,
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
And ^(CJ)the land was polluted with blood.
³⁹ Thus they ^[p]were ^(CK)defiled by their own works,
And ^(CL)played^[q] the harlot by their own deeds.

⁴⁰ Therefore ^(CM)the wrath of the Lord was kindled against His people,
So that He abhorred ^(CN)His own inheritance.
⁴¹ And ^(CO)He gave them into the hand of the Gentiles,
And those who hated them ruled over them.
⁴² Their enemies also oppressed them,
And they were brought into subjection under their hand.
^43 (CP)Many times He delivered them;
But they rebelled in their counsel,
And were brought low for their iniquity.

⁴⁴ Nevertheless He regarded their affliction,
When ^(CQ)He heard their cry;
^45 (CR)And for their sake He remembered His covenant,
And ^(CS)relented ^(CT)according to the multitude of His mercies.
^46 (CU)He also made them to be pitied
By all those who carried them away captive.

^47 (CV)Save us, O Lord our God,
And gather us from among the Gentiles,
To give thanks to Your holy name,
To triumph in Your praise.

^48 (CW)Blessed be the Lord God of Israel
From everlasting to everlasting!
And let all the people say, “Amen!”

^[r]Praise the Lord!