Give Thanks to the LORD, for He Is Good 1 UST Praise Yahweh! Thank Yahweh because he is good and because he faithfully loves us forever! BSB BSB: Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
2 UST Because Yahweh has done so many great things, no one can tell all the great things that Yahweh has done, and no one can praise him enough. BSB BSB: Who can describe the mighty acts of the LORD or fully proclaim His praise?
3 UST How happy are those who act fairly, always doing what is right! BSB BSB: Blessed are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times.
4 UST Yahweh, be kind to me when you help your people! Include me when you rescue them! BSB BSB: Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,
5 UST Allow me to see the people whom you have chosen become prosperous again. Allow me to be happy with the people of your nation when they become happy again. Allow me to praise you along with all those others who belong to you. BSB BSB: that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, and give glory with Your inheritance.
6 UST We have sinned just as our ancestors did; we have done all kinds of evil. BSB BSB: We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
7 UST Our ancestors did not appreciate the wonderful things that you did when they were in Egypt. They forgot about the many times that you showed that you faithfully loved them. Instead, when they were at the Sea of Reeds, they rebelled against you. BSB BSB: Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.
8 UST Even so, he rescued them because of who he is, so that he could show that he is very powerful. BSB BSB: Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.
9 UST He rebuked the Sea of Reeds and it became dry. Then he led our ancestors through it and even the deepest parts were as dry as a desert. BSB BSB: He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.
10 UST In that way he rescued them from their hateful enemies. BSB BSB: He saved them from the hand that hated them; He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
11 UST Then their enemies drowned under the water{ of the Sea of Reeds}; not one of them remained{ alive}. BSB BSB: The waters covered their foes; not one of them remained.
12 UST When that happened, our ancestors believed that Yahweh had truly done for them what he had promised to do, and they sang to praise him. BSB BSB: Then they believed His promises and sang His praise.
13 UST But they soon forgot what he had done for them; they did things without waiting to find out what Yahweh wanted them to do. BSB BSB: Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.
14 UST They intensely wanted certain foods in the wilderness. They did evil things there that challenged God to punish them. BSB BSB: They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.
15 UST So he gave them what they requested, but then he made many of them sick so that they died. BSB BSB: So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them.
16 UST Later when some of the men in the camp became resentful of Moses and of{ his older brother} Aaron, who was dedicated to serve Yahweh{ by being a priest}, BSB BSB: In the camp they envied Moses, as well as Aaron, the holy one of the LORD.
17 UST the ground opened up and Dathan fell into it and it also buried Abiram and his people. BSB BSB: The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.
18 UST God made a fire start among their people that burned up all the wicked people{ who agreed with them}. BSB BSB: Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked.
19 UST Then the Israelite leaders made a metal statue of a calf at Mount Horeb and they worshiped it. BSB BSB: At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.
20 UST So instead of worshiping their glorious God, they worshiped a statue of a bull that eats grass! BSB BSB: They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.
21 UST They ignored God, who had rescued them by the great miracles that he performed in Egypt. BSB BSB: They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,
22 UST They stopped thinking about the wonderful things that he did for them in Egypt and the amazing things that he did for them at the Sea of Reeds. BSB BSB: wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
23 UST Because of that, God said that he would get rid of the Israelites; but Moses, whom God had chosen{ to serve him}, confronted God to persuade him not to destroy{ them}. BSB BSB: So He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.
24 UST Then our ancestors refused to enter the beautiful land{ of Canaan} because they did not believe that God would fulfill his promise{ that he would enable them to take the land from the people who were living there}. BSB BSB: They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.
25 UST Instead, they stayed in their tents and complained. They did not obey what Yahweh said that they should do. BSB BSB: They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.
26 UST So Yahweh solemnly swore to them that he would cause them to die there in the wilderness, BSB BSB: So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,
27 UST and that he would spread their descendants among the people of other nations, yes, that he would disperse them in those{ foreign} lands. BSB BSB: to disperse their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.
28 UST Later the Israelite people began worshiping the statue of Baal at Mount Peor, and they ate meat that had been sacrificed to dead{ ancestors}. BSB BSB: They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
29 UST When the people did these things, that made Yahweh angry, so{ again} he caused many of them to get a terrible disease. BSB BSB: So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
30 UST But Phinehas stood up and punished{ the ones who had sinned}, and as a result the plague ended. BSB BSB: But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.
31 UST Because of what Phinehas did, people have considered him to be a righteous man, and people in all future years will continue to remember him as righteous. BSB BSB: It was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.
32 UST Then at Meribah, where the water came out{ of the rock}, our ancestors caused Yahweh to become angry{ again}, and Moses suffered because of what they did. BSB BSB: At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them.
33 UST Moses suffered because they caused him to become very angry, and he said things that were foolish. BSB BSB: For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.
34 UST Our ancestors did not destroy the other people groups as Yahweh had told them to do. BSB BSB: They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,
35 UST Instead, the men married women from those people groups, and they started doing the{ evil} things that those people did. BSB BSB: but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
36 UST Our ancestors worshiped the idols of those people, and that is how they began to reject Yahweh and his ways. BSB BSB: They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.
37 UST { Many of} the Israelites sacrificed their sons and daughters to the demons{ that those idols represented}. BSB BSB: They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
38 UST They killed their own sons and daughters, who had done nothing wrong, by offering them as sacrifices to the idols of the Canaanites. Because of those murders, the land of Canaan became defiled. BSB BSB: They shed innocent blood—the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.
39 UST Because of what they did they made it impossible for Yahweh to accept them. By worshiping idols instead of faithfully worshiping only Yahweh, they became like prostitutes. BSB BSB: They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
40 UST So Yahweh became very angry with his people; he was completely disgusted with them. BSB BSB: So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.
41 UST As a result, he allowed other people groups to conquer our ancestors, so that those who hated our ancestors were their rulers. BSB BSB: He delivered them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.
42 UST Their enemies oppressed our ancestors and completely controlled them. BSB BSB: Their enemies oppressed them and subdued them under their hand.
43 UST Many times Yahweh saved his people, but they insisted on rebelling against him, and they destroyed themselves by being more and more sinful. BSB BSB: Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.
44 UST However, Yahweh saw everything that was distressing to them, and he listened to them when they cried out to him for help. BSB BSB: Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.
45 UST He thought about the covenant that he had made with them, and because he was completely committed to faithfully loving them, he decided that he would stop{ punishing them}. BSB BSB: And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.
46 UST He caused all those who had captured the Israelites to feel sorry for them. BSB BSB: He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.
47 UST Yahweh our God, rescue us and bring us back to Israel from among those other people groups so that we may thank you who are holy and joyfully praise you! BSB BSB: Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.
48 UST Praise Yahweh, the God whom we Israelites worship! Praise him now and forever! Let all the people say,“We agree! Praise Yahweh!” BSB BSB: Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Hallelujah!
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