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106:1 Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord because he is good, for his mercie endureth for euer.
106:2 Who can expresse the noble actes of the Lord, or shewe forth all his prayse?
106:3 Blessed are they that keepe iudgement, and doe righteousnesse at all times.
106:4 Remember me, O Lord, with the fauour of thy people: visite me with thy saluation,
106:5 That I may see the felicitie of thy chosen, and reioyce in the ioy of thy people, and glorie with thine inheritance.
106:6 We haue sinned with our fathers: we haue committed iniquitie, and done wickedly.
106:7 Our fathers vnderstoode not thy wonders in Egypt, neither remembred they the multitude of thy mercies, but rebelled at the Sea, euen at the red sea.
106:8 Neuerthelesse he saued them for his Names sake, that he might make his power to be knowen.
106:9 And he rebuked the red Sea, and it was dryed vp, and he led them in the deepe, as in the wildernesse.
106:10 And he saued them from ye aduersaries hand, and deliuered them from ye hand of the enemie.
106:11 And the waters couered their oppressours: not one of them was left.
106:12 Then beleeued they his wordes, and sang prayse vnto him.
106:13 But incontinently they forgate his workes: they wayted not for his counsell,
106:14 But lusted with concupiscence in the wildernes, and tempted God in the desert.
106:15 Then he gaue them their desire: but he sent leannesse into their soule.
106:16 They enuied Moses also in the tentes, and Aaron the holy one of the Lord.
106:17 Therefore the earth opened and swallowed vp Dathan, and couered the companie of Abiram.
106:18 And the fire was kindled in their assembly: the flame burnt vp the wicked.
106:19 They made a calfe in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
106:20 Thus they turned their glory into the similitude of a bullocke, that eateth grasse.
106:21 They forgate God their Sauiour, which had done great things in Egypt,
106:22 Wonderous woorkes in the lande of Ham, and fearefull things by the red Sea.
106:23 Therefore he minded to destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stand in the breach before him to turne away his wrath, least he shoulde destroy them.
106:24 Also they contemned that pleasant land, and beleeued not his worde,
106:25 But murmured in their tentes, and hearkened not vnto the voice of the Lord.
106:26 Therefore hee lifted vp his hande against them, to destroy them in the wildernesse,
106:27 And to destroy their seede among the nations, and to scatter them throughout the countries.
106:28 They ioyned themselues also vnto Baalpeor, and did eate the offrings of the dead.
106:29 Thus they prouoked him vnto anger with their owne inuentions, and the plague brake in vpon them.
106:30 But Phinehas stoode vp, and executed iudgement, and the plague was staied.
106:31 And it was imputed vnto him for righteousnes from generation to generation for euer.
106:32 They angred him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was punished for their sakes,
106:33 Because they vexed his spirite, so that hee spake vnaduisedly with his lippes.
106:34 Neither destroied they the people, as the Lord had commanded them,
106:35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their workes,
106:36 And serued their idoles, which were their ruine.
106:37 Yea, they offered their sonnes, and their daughters vnto deuils,
106:38 And shed innocent blood, euen the blood of their sonnes, and of their daughters, whome they offred vnto the idoles of Canaan, and the lande was defiled with blood.
106:39 Thus were they steined with their owne woorkes, and went a whoring with their owne inuentions.
106:40 Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and he abhorred his owne inheritance.
106:41 And hee gaue them into the hande of the heathen: and they that hated them, were lordes ouer them.
106:42 Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were humbled vnder their hand.
106:43 Many a time did hee deliuer them, but they prouoked him by their counsels: therefore they were brought downe by their iniquitie.
106:44 Yet hee sawe when they were in affliction, and he heard their crie.
106:45 And he remembred his couenant towarde them and repented according to the multitude of his mercies,
106:46 And gaue them fauour in the sight of all them that lead them captiues.
106:47 Saue vs, O Lord our God, and gather vs from among the heathen, that we may praise thine holy Name, and glorie in thy praise.
106:48 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for euer and euer, and let all the people say, So be it. Praise yee the Lord.