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Praise the Lord
Praise the Lord ever
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good
His love endures forever

Who can proclaim the mighty acts of the Lord
Or fully declare His praise?
Blessed are those who act justly
Who do what is right always

Remember me, Lord, when You show favor to Your people
When You save them come to my aid
That I may enjoy the prosperity of Your chosen ones
That I may enjoy and never will forget

That I may share in the joy of Your nation
And join Your inheritance in giving praise
We have sinned, even as our ancestors did
We have done wrong and acted wickedly lots of nights and days

When our ancestors were in Egypt
They gave no thought to Your miracles
They rebelled by the sea, the Red Sea
They did not remember Your many kindnesses

Yet He saved them for His name’s sake
To make His mighty power known
He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up
He led them through the depths as through a desert, led alone

He saved them from the hand of the foe
From the hand of the enemy He redeemed them
The waters covered their adversaries
Not one of them survived and then…

Then they believed His promises
And sang His praise as they were told
But they forgot what He had done
And didn’t wait His plan to unfold

In the desert they gave in to their craving
In the wilderness they put God to the test
So He gave them what they asked for
But sent among them disease of waste

In the camp they grew envious of Moses
And of Aaron, who was consecrated to the Lord
The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan
It buried the company of Abiram as per God’s word

Fire blazed among their followers
A flame consumed the wicked men
At Horeb they made a calf
And worshiped an idol cast from metal then

They exchanged their glorious God
For an image of a bull, which eats grass
They forgot the God who saved them
Who had done great things in Egypt even they not asked

Miracles in the land of Ham
And awesome deeds by the Red Sea
Miracles and deeds made by God
Miracles and deeds they never seen

So He said He would destroy them—
Had not Moses, his chosen one
Stood in the breach before Him
To keep his wrath from destroying them

Then they despised the pleasant land
They did not believe His promise, His word
They grumbled in their tents
And did not obey the Lord

So He swore to them with uplifted hand
That He would make them fall in the wilderness
Make their descendants fall among the nations
And scatter them throughout the lands

They yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor
And ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods
They aroused the Lord’s anger by their wicked deeds
And a plague broke out among them as per God’s word

But Phinehas stood up and intervened
And the plague was checked
This was credited to him as righteousness
For endless generations to come as a respect

By the waters of Meribah they angered the Lord
And trouble came to Moses because of them
For they rebelled against the Spirit of God
And rash words came from Moses’ lips to them

They did not destroy the peoples
As the Lord had commanded them to do
But they mingled with the nations
And adopted their customs and their views

They worshiped their idols
Which became to them a snare
They sacrificed their sons
And their daughters to false gods without care

They shed blood of their sons and daughters
The innocent blood
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan
And the land was desecrated by their blood

They defiled themselves by what they did
By their deeds they prostituted themselves
Therefore the Lord was angry with His people
And abhorred His inheritance

He gave them into the hands of the nations
And their foes ruled over them
Their enemies subjected them to their power
And oppressed them

Many times He delivered them
But they were bent on rebellion
And they wasted away in their sin
They were in their oblivion

Yet He took note of their distress
When He heard their cry
For their sake He remembered His covenant
And out of His great love He relented but they didn’t even know why

He caused all who held them captive
To show them mercy
Save us, Lord our God
Set us free

Save us, Lord our God
And gather us from the nations
That we may give thanks to Your holy name
And glory in Your praise in future generations

Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel
From everlasting to everlasting our God
Let all the people say, “Amen!”
Praise the Lord