1 O sing Hallelujah! Praise GOD for his goodness;
his covenant love ever endless shall be.
2 What tongue can declare all God's deeds and his praises?
3 How happy are those who do justice and right.
4 When you bless your people, LORD do not forget me,
but come to my aid when you save them in grace.
5 So then I can witness your chosen ones' blessing,
share your nations joy, and with your people praise.
6 We've sinned like our fathers, done wrong, we are guilty;
7 our fathers in Egypt did not heed your signs.
They did not remember your covenant kindness,
but they by the Red Sea rebelled against God.
8 And yet, for his name's sake, he saved them, showed greatness;
9 the Red Sea rebuked so that it dried away.
10 He led through the deep as one walks though a desert,
and from their foes' might he them saved and redeemed.
11 Their foes were all drowned and there were no survivors;
12 so his word they trusted, and his praises sang.
13 But they soon forgot it, did not wait for counsel;
14 they craved in the desert, put God to the test.
15 He heeded their pleading and gave what they wanted,
but then he sent on them a wasting disease.
16 yet then, where they camped, they grew jealous of Moses,
and also of Aaron, the LORD's holy priest.
17 The earth split wide open and swallowed up Dathan,
And over Abiram and his group it closed;
18 then fire blazed on those who had followed their counsel,
and these wicked people were burned in the flames.
19 At Horeb a calf they from gold made and worshiped;
20 their glory exchange for a cast-medal ox!
21 their Savior forgetting, his great deeds in Egypt,
22 his wonders, his exploits beside the Red Sea.
23 He said he'd destroy them, but his chosen Moses
stepped into the breach and deflected his wrath.
24 But then they refused the good land he had promised,
and they had no faith in the word he had said.
25 Complaining, they would not to GOD give obedience,
26 so he swore he'd make them in wilderness fall.
27 He'd scatter their children among all the nations,
dispersing them over the face of the earth.
28 The Baal of Pe-or was the one whom they followed;
29 they ate sacrifices to gods that are dead.
30 Provoking God's anger, a plague he sent on them,
till Phin-e-as rose up; the plague then was stayed.
31 This action so righteous is ever remembered.
32 Yet they angered God at the Meribah springs.
33 And Moses knew trouble: he spoke to them rashly;
yet they had resisted the Spirit of God.
34 The nations they did not destroy as God ordered,
35 but with them they mingled and followed their ways.
36 They bowed to their idols, this was their undoing:
37 to demons their children as sacrifice gave.
38 They shed blood of innocent sons and of daughters,
when they sacrificed to the Canaanite lies.
39 The land and the people were unclean through evil;
40 the LORD showed his wrath and his people he loathed.
41/42 He gave them to kings of the heathen who crushed them;
43 yet he'd often free them though rebels they stayed.
44/45 For he had regard to their cry and his cov'nant;
46 he showed them his grace, made their captors be kind.
47 So save us, LORD God, bring us back from the heathen;
we'll boast in your praise and your holy name thank.
48 To God, God of Isr'el, sing praises for ever.
God's people say, "Yes and Amen." Praise the LORD!
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