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Hallelujah.
O give thanks unto the LORD;
for He is good;
for His mercy endureth for ever.
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Who can express the mighty acts of the LORD, or make all His praise to be heard?
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Happy are they that keep justice, that do righteousness at all times.
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Remember me, O LORD, when Thou favourest Thy people;
O think of me at Thy salvation;
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That I may behold the prosperity of Thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of Thy nation, that I may glory with Thine inheritance.
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We have sinned with our fathers, we have done iniquitously, we have dealt wickedly.
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Our fathers in Egypt gave no heed unto Thy wonders;
they remembered not the multitude of Thy mercies;
but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
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Nevertheless He saved them for His name"s sake, that He might make His mighty power to be known.
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And He rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up;
and He led them through the depths, as through a wilderness.
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And He saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
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And the waters covered their adversaries;
there was not one of them left.
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Then believed they His words;
they sang His praise.
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They soon forgot His works;
they waited not for His counsel;
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But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tried God in the desert.
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And He gave them their request;
but sent leanness into their soul.
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They were jealous also of Moses in the camp, and of Aaron the holy one of the LORD.
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The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
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And a fire was kindled in their company;
the flame burned up the wicked.
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They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped a molten image.
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Thus they exchanged their glory for the likeness of an ox that eateth grass.
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They forgot God their saviour, who had done great things in Egypt;
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Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.
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Therefore He said that He would destroy them, had not Moses His chosen stood before Him in the breach, to turn back His wrath, lest He should destroy them.
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Moreover, they scorned the desirable land, they believed not His word;
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And they murmured in their tents, they hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.
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Therefore He swore concerning them, that He would overthrow them in the wilderness;
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And that He would cast out their seed among the nations, and scatter them in the lands.
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They joined themselves also unto Baal of Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
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Thus they provoked Him with their doings, and the plague broke in upon them.
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Then stood up Phinehas, and wrought judgment, and so the plague was stayed.
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And that was counted unto him for righteousness, unto all generations for ever.
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They angered Him also at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses because of them;
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For they embittered his spirit, and he spoke rashly with his lips.
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They did not destroy the peoples, as the LORD commanded them;
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But mingled themselves with the nations, and learned their works;
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And they served their idols, which became a snare unto them;
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Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,
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And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan;
and the land was polluted with blood.
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Thus were they defiled with their works, and went astray in their doings.
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Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against His people, and He abhorred His inheritance.
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And He gave them into the hand of the nations;
and they that hated them ruled over them.
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Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were subdued under their hand.
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Many times did He deliver them;
but they were rebellious in their counsel, and sank low through their iniquity.
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Nevertheless He looked upon their distress, when He heard their cry;
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And He remembered for them His covenant, and repented according to the multitude of His mercies.
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He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captive.
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Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the nations, that we may give thanks unto Thy holy name, that we may triumph in Thy praise.
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Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting, and let all the people say: "Amen." Hallelujah.
BOOK V