Alleluia!
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good.
His love is everlasting.
Full tell of the power of the Lord, or show forth all of His praise.
How blessed are those who keep justice and righteousness at all times.
Remember me, Lord, in Your favor, and visit me with Your salvation.
Let me see Your chosen ones prosper, and glory with Your inheritance.
We've erred like our fathers, committing sin, so poorly we have behaved.
In Egypt they misunderstood Your signs, Your graces they scorned at the sea.
But for Your name's sake You saved them, to make Your power known.
Rebuking the Red Sea, He dried it up, let through the deep as a wilderness.
Saved them from the hand of hostile ones, redeemed from the hand of their foes.
Though waters returned to drown their foes, not one among them was left.
Therefore they trusted His words, and they sang out His praise.
Alleluia!
However they quickly forgot His works, they did not wait for His counsel.
Their cravings were strong in the wilderness, they tested their God in the
desert.
He gave to them as they desired, along with the wasting disease.
The camp envied Moses and Aaron, the holy ones of the Lord.
Earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, engulfing the clan of Abiram.
A fire broke out in their company, the flame consumed the wicked.
They then made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped a molten image.
So they exchanged their glory for the image of an ox that eats grass.
Forgetting their God and Savior, who did great things in Egypt,
His signs in the land of Ham, and marvels at the Red Sea, He said that He would
destroy them, had Moses not stood in the gap to turn away His anger from destroying
them.
Alleluia!
Then they despised the pleasant land, they did not trust in His word.
But crumbled there within their tents, not heeding the voice of the Lord.
Therefore He swore unto them, He'd cast them down in the desert, and cast their
seed among nations, to scatter them throughout the lands.
They joined themselves to Baal-pior, and ate what was offered the dead.
Provoking His anger by their deeds, a plague broke out among them.
Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, thereby the plague was stopped.
Reckoned to Him as righteousness to all generations forever.
Alleluia!
At Meribah's waters they angered Him, thus making it hard for Moses.
For when they rejected His spirit, He rashly spoke with His lips.
They did not destroy the nations as ordered by the Lord.
But with the nations they mingled, and learned of all their ways.
They started to serve their idols, becoming a snare unto them.
For even their sons they sacrificed, and gave their daughters to demons.
They shed the innocent blood of their daughters and of their sons.
Gave them to the idols of Canaan, polluting the land with their blood.
Becoming unclean in their dealings, indeed they played the harlot.
The Lord's anger burned at His people, detesting His own inheritance.
He gave them into the nations' hands.
Those hating them became their rulers.
Their enemies also oppressed them, subduing them under their power.
He often would save and counsel them.
Rebellious they sank in their sin.
But He still considered their troubles, whenever He heard their crying.
For them He remembered His covenant.
He turned from the depths of His love.
He made them as objects of pity, in the presence of their captors.
Alleluia!
Save us, O Lord, our God.
Regather us from all the nations.
To give thanks to Your holy name, and glory in Your praise.
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, forever and forever.
Let the people say, Amen.
Alleluia!