19. The angel of God, who went before the camp of ISRAEL, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.

20. It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of ISRAEL; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and one didn't come near the other all night.

21. Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

22. The children of ISRAEL went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.

and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued you, and how the LORD has destroyed them to this day;

1. Hear my teaching, my people.Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

2. I will open my mouth in a parable.I will utter dark sayings of old,

3. Which we have heard and known,and our fathers have told us.

4. We will not hide them from their children,telling to the generation to come the praises of The LORD,his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.

5. For he established a testimony in Jacob,and appointed a teaching in ISRAEL,which he commanded our fathers,that they should make them known to their children;

6. that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born;who should arise and tell their children,

7. that they might set their hope in God,and not forget God's deeds,but keep his commandments,

8. and might not be as their fathers,a stubborn and rebellious generation,a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal,whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

9. The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows,turned back in the day of battle.

10. They didn't keep God's covenant,and refused to walk in his law.

11. They forgot his doings,his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.

12. He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers,in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

13. He split the sea, and caused them to pass through.He made the waters stand as a heap.

14. In the daytime he also led them with a cloud,and all night with a light of fire.

15. He split rocks in the wilderness,and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

16. He brought streams also out of the rock,and caused waters to run down like rivers.

17. Yet they still went on to sin against him,to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

18. They tempted God in their heartby asking food according to their desire.

19. Yes, they spoke against God.They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

20. Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out,and streams overflowed.Can he give bread also?Will he provide meat for his people?"

21. Therefore the LORD heard, and was angry.A fire was kindled against Jacob,anger also went up against ISRAEL,

22. because they didn't believe in God,and didn't trust in his salvation.

23. Yet he commanded the skies above,and opened the doors of heaven.

24. He rained down manna on them to eat,and gave them food from the sky.

25. Man ate the bread of angels.He sent them food to the full.

26. He caused the east wind to blow in the sky.By his power he guided the south wind.

27. He rained also meat on them as the dust;winged birds as the sand of the seas.

28. He let them fall in the middle of their camp,around their habitations.

29. So they ate, and were well filled.He gave them their own desire.

30. They didn't turn from their cravings.Their food was yet in their mouths,

31. when the anger of God went up against them,killed some of their fattest,and struck down the young men of ISRAEL.

32. For all this they still sinned,and didn't believe in his wondrous works.

33. Therefore he consumed their days in vanity,and their years in terror.

34. When he killed them, then they inquired after him.They returned and sought God earnestly.

35. They remembered that God was their rock,the Most High God, their redeemer.

36. But they flattered him with their mouth,and lied to him with their tongue.

37. For their heart was not right with him,neither were they faithful in his covenant.

38. But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy them.Yes, many times he turned his anger away,and didn't stir up all his wrath.

39. He remembered that they were but flesh,a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.

40. How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness,and grieved him in the desert!

41. They turned again and tempted God,and provoked the Holy One of ISRAEL.

42. They didn't remember his hand,nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

43. how he set his signs in Egypt,his wonders in the field of Zoan,

44. he turned their rivers into blood,and their streams, so that they could not drink.

45. He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them;and frogs, which destroyed them.

46. He gave also their increase to the caterpillar,and their labor to the locust.

47. He destroyed their vines with hail,their sycamore fig trees with frost.

48. He gave over their livestock also to the hail,and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

49. He threw on them the fierceness of his anger,wrath, indignation, and trouble,and a band of angels of evil.

50. He made a path for his anger.He didn't spare their soul from death,but gave their life over to the pestilence,

51. and struck all the firstborn in Egypt,the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

52. But he led out his own people like sheep,and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

53. He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid,but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

54. He brought them to the border of his sanctuary,to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.

55. He also drove out the nations before them,allotted them for an inheritance by line,and made the tribes of ISRAEL to dwell in their tents.

56. Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God,and didn't keep his testimonies;

57. but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers.They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

58. For they provoked him to anger with their high places,and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.

59. When God heard this, he was angry,and greatly abhorred ISRAEL;

60. So that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh,the tent which he placed among men;

61. and delivered his strength into captivity,his glory into the adversary's hand.

62. He also gave his people over to the sword,and was angry with his inheritance.

63. Fire devoured their young men.Their virgins had no wedding song.

64. Their priests fell by the sword,and their widows couldn't weep.

65. Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep,like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

66. He struck his adversaries backward.He put them to a perpetual reproach.

67. Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph,and didn't choose the tribe of Ephraim,

68. But chose the tribe of Judah,Mount Zion which he loved.

69. He built his sanctuary like the heights,like the earth which he has established forever.

70. He also chose David his servant,and took him from the sheepfolds;

71. from following the ewes that have their young,he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people,and ISRAEL, his inheritance.

72. So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart,and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

1. Give thanks to The LORD! Call on his name!Make his doings known among the peoples.

2. Sing to him, sing praises to him!Tell of all his marvelous works.

3. Glory in his holy name.Let the heart of those who seek the LORD rejoice.

4. Seek the LORD and his strength.Seek his face forever more.

5. Remember his marvelous works that he has done;his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,

6. you offspring of Abraham, his servant,you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

7. He is The LORD, our God.His judgments are in all the earth.

8. He has remembered his covenant forever,the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

9. the covenant which he made with Abraham,his oath to Isaac,

10. and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute;to ISRAEL for an everlasting covenant,

11. saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan,the lot of your inheritance";

12. when they were but a few men in number,yes, very few, and foreigners in it.

13. They went about from nation to nation,from one kingdom to another people.

14. He allowed no one to do them wrong.Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,

15. "Don't touch my anointed ones!Do my prophets no harm!"

16. He called for a famine on the land.He destroyed the food supplies.

17. He sent a man before them.Joseph was sold for a slave.

18. They bruised his feet with shackles.His neck was locked in irons,

19. until the time that his word happened,and The LORD's word proved him true.

20. The king sent and freed him;even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

21. He made him lord of his house,and ruler of all of his possessions;

22. to discipline his princes at his pleasure,and to teach his elders wisdom.

23. ISRAEL also came into Egypt.Jacob lived in the land of Ham.

24. He increased his people greatly,and made them stronger than their adversaries.

25. He turned their heart to hate his people,to conspire against his servants.

26. He sent Moses, his servant,and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

27. They performed miracles among them,and wonders in the land of Ham.

28. He sent darkness, and made it dark.They didn't rebel against his words.

29. He turned their waters into blood,and killed their fish.

30. Their land swarmed with frogs,even in the rooms of their kings.

31. He spoke, and swarms of flies came,and lice in all their borders.

32. He gave them hail for rain,with lightning in their land.

33. He struck their vines and also their fig trees,and shattered the trees of their country.

34. He spoke, and the locusts came,and the grasshoppers, without number,

35. ate up every plant in their land;and ate up the fruit of their ground.

36. He struck also all the firstborn in their land,the first fruits of all their manhood.

37. He brought them out with silver and gold.There was not one feeble person among his tribes.

38. Egypt was glad when they departed,for the fear of them had fallen on them.

39. He spread a cloud for a covering,fire to give light in the night.

40. They asked, and he brought quails,and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.

41. He opened the rock, and waters gushed out.They ran as a river in the dry places.

42. For he remembered his holy word,and Abraham, his servant.

43. He brought his people out with joy,his chosen with singing.

44. He gave them the lands of the nations.They took the labor of the peoples in possession,

45. that they might keep his statutes,and observe his laws.Praise Yah!

1. Praise The LORD!Give thanks to The LORD, for he is good,for his loving kindness endures forever.

2. Who can utter the mighty acts of The LORD,or fully declare all his praise?

3. Blessed are those who keep justice.Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.

4. Remember me, The LORD, with the favor that you show to your people.Visit me with your salvation,

5. that I may see the prosperity of your chosen,that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation,that I may glory with your inheritance.

6. We have sinned with our fathers.We have committed iniquity.We have done wickedly.

7. Our fathers didn't understand your wonders in Egypt.They didn't remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses,but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

8. Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake,that he might make his mighty power known.

9. He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up;so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.

10. He saved them from the hand of him who hated them,and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

11. The waters covered their adversaries.There was not one of them left.

12. Then they believed his words.They sang his praise.

13. They soon forgot his works.They didn't wait for his counsel,

14. but gave in to craving in the desert,and tested God in the wasteland.

15. He gave them their request,but sent leanness into their soul.

16. They envied Moses also in the camp,and Aaron, The LORD's saint.

17. The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,and covered the company of Abiram.

18. A fire was kindled in their company.The flame burned up the wicked.

19. They made a calf in Horeb,and worshiped a molten image.

20. Thus they exchanged their gloryfor an image of a bull that eats grass.

21. They forgot God, their Savior,who had done great things in Egypt,

22. Wondrous works in the land of Ham,and awesome things by the Red Sea.

23. Therefore he said that he would destroy them,had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach,to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn't destroy them.

24. Yes, they despised the pleasant land.They didn't believe his word,

25. but murmured in their tents,and didn't listen to The LORD's voice.

26. Therefore he swore to themthat he would overthrow them in the wilderness,

27. that he would overthrow their offspring among the nations,and scatter them in the lands.

28. They joined themselves also to Baal Peor,and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

29. Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds.The plague broke in on them.

30. Then Phinehas stood up, and executed judgment,so the plague was stopped.

31. That was credited to him for righteousness,for all generations to come.

32. They angered him also at the waters of Meribah,so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;

33. because they were rebellious against his spirit,he spoke rashly with his lips.

34. They didn't destroy the peoples,as the LORD commanded them,

35. but mixed themselves with the nations,and learned their works.

36. They served their idols,which became a snare to them.

37. Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

38. They shed innocent blood,even the blood of their sons and of their daughters,whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan.The land was polluted with blood.

39. Thus were they defiled with their works,and prostituted themselves in their deeds.

40. Therefore the LORD burned with anger against his people.He abhorred his inheritance.

41. He gave them into the hand of the nations.Those who hated them ruled over them.

42. Their enemies also oppressed them.They were brought into subjection under their hand.

43. He rescued them many times,but they were rebellious in their counsel,and were brought low in their iniquity.

44. Nevertheless he regarded their distress,when he heard their cry.

45. He remembered for them his covenant,and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

46. He made them also to be pitiedby all those who carried them captive.

47. Save us, The LORD, our God,gather us from among the nations,to give thanks to your holy name,to triumph in your praise!

48. Blessed be The LORD, the God of ISRAEL,from everlasting even to everlasting!Let all the people say, "Amen."Praise Yah!