| Chapter 106 |
1 | Praise ye Jah, give thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age, [is] His kindness.
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2 | Who doth utter the mighty acts of Jehovah? Soundeth all His praise?
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3 | O the happiness of those keeping judgment, Doing righteousness at all times.
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4 | Remember me, O Jehovah, With the favour of Thy people, Look after me in Thy salvation.
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5 | To look on the good of Thy chosen ones, To rejoice in the joy of Thy nation, To boast myself with Thine inheritance.
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6 | We have sinned with our fathers, We have done perversely, we have done wickedly.
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7 | Our fathers in Egypt, Have not considered wisely Thy wonders, They have not remembered The abundance of Thy kind acts, And provoke by the sea, at the sea of Suph.
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8 | And He saveth them for His name's sake, To make known His might,
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9 | And rebuketh the sea of Suph, and it is dried up, And causeth them to go Through depths as a wilderness.
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10 | And He saveth them from the hand Of him who is hating, And redeemeth them from the hand of the enemy.
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11 | And waters cover their adversaries, One of them hath not been left.
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12 | And they believe in His words, they sing His praise,
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13 | They have hasted -- forgotten His works, They have not waited for His counsel.
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14 | And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert.
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15 | And He giveth to them their request, And sendeth leanness into their soul.
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16 | And they are envious of Moses in the camp, Of Aaron, Jehovah's holy one.
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17 | Earth openeth, and swalloweth up Dathan, And covereth over the company of Abiram.
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18 | And fire burneth among their company, A flame setteth on fire the wicked.
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19 | They make a calf in Horeb, And bow themselves to a molten image,
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20 | And change their Honour Into the form of an ox eating herbs.
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21 | They have forgotten God their saviour, The doer of great things in Egypt,
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22 | Of wonderful things in the land of Ham, Of fearful things by the sea of Suph.
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23 | And He saith to destroy them, Unless Moses, His chosen one, Had stood in the breach before Him, To turn back His wrath from destroying.
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24 | And they kick against the desirable land, They have not given credence to His word.
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25 | And they murmur in their tents, They have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah.
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26 | And He lifteth up His hand to them, To cause them to fall in a wilderness,
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27 | And to cause their seed to fall among nations, And to scatter them through lands.
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28 | And they are coupled to Baal-Peor, And eat the sacrifices of the dead,
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29 | And they provoke to anger by their actions, And a plague breaketh forth upon them,
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30 | And Phinehas standeth, and executeth judgment, And the plague is restrained,
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31 | And it is reckoned to him to righteousness, To all generations -- unto the age.
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32 | And they cause wrath by the waters of Meribah, And it is evil to Moses for their sakes,
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33 | For they have provoked his spirit, And he speaketh wrongfully with his lips.
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34 | They have not destroyed the peoples, As Jehovah had said to them,
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35 | And mix themselves among nations, and learn their works,
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36 | And serve their idols, And they are to them for a snare.
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37 | And they sacrifice their sons And their daughters to destroyers,
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38 | And they shed innocent blood -- Blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they have sacrificed to idols of Canaan, And the land is profaned with blood.
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39 | And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.
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40 | And the anger of Jehovah Is kindled against His people, And He doth abominate His inheritance.
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41 | And giveth them into the hand of nations, And those hating them rule over them,
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42 | And their enemies oppress them, And they are humbled under their hand.
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43 | Many times He doth deliver them, And they rebel in their counsel, And they are brought low in their iniquity.
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44 | And He looketh on their distress When He heareth their cry,
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45 | And remembereth for them His covenant, And is comforted, According to the abundance of His kindness.
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46 | And He appointeth them for mercies Before all their captors.
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47 | Save us, O Jehovah our God, and gather us from the nations, To give thanks to Thy holy name, To glory in Thy praise.
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48 | Blessed [is] Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age even unto the age. And all the people said, 'Amen, praise Jah!'
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