## Remember Me, O Yahweh ###### 1 Praise Yah! Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for He is good; For His lovingkindness endures forever. ###### 2 Who can speak of the mighty deeds of Yahweh, Or can make all His praise to be heard? ###### 3 How blessed are those who keep justice, _And he_ who does righteousness at all times! ###### 4 Remember me, O Yahweh, in _Your_ favor toward Your people; Visit me with Your salvation, ###### 5 That I may see the goodness of Your chosen ones, That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, That I may boast with Your inheritance. ###### 6 We have sinned with our fathers, We have committed iniquity, we have acted wickedly. ###### 7 Our fathers in Egypt did not consider Your wondrous deeds; They did not remember Your abundant lovingkindnesses, But they rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea. ###### 8 Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, That He might make His might known. ###### 9 Thus He rebuked the Red Sea and it dried up, And He led them through the deeps, as through the wilderness. ###### 10 So He saved them from the hand of the one who hated _them_, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. ###### 11 The waters covered their adversaries; Not one of them was left. ###### 12 Then they believed His words; They sang His praise. ###### 13 They quickly forgot His works; They did not wait for His counsel, ###### 14 But craved intensely in the wilderness, And put God to the test in the wasteland. ###### 15 So He gave them their request, But sent a wasting disease against their lives. ###### 16 Then they became envious of Moses in the camp, And of Aaron, the holy one of Yahweh, ###### 17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, And covered up the company of Abiram. ###### 18 And a fire burned up in their company; The flame consumed the wicked. ###### 19 They made a calf in Horeb And worshiped a molten image. ###### 20 Thus they exchanged their glory For the image of an ox that eats grass. ###### 21 They forgot God their Savior, Who had done great things in Egypt, ###### 22 Wondrous deeds in the land of Ham _And_ awesome things by the Red Sea. ###### 23 Therefore He said that He would destroy them, Had not Moses His chosen one stood in the breach before Him, To turn away His wrath from eradicating _them_. ###### 24 Then they despised the pleasant land; They did not believe in His word, ###### 25 But grumbled in their tents; They did not listen to the voice of Yahweh. ###### 26 So He swore to them To make them fall in the wilderness, ###### 27 And to make their seed fall among the nations And to scatter them in the lands. ###### 28 They then joined themselves to Baal-peor, And ate sacrifices _offered to_ the dead. ###### 29 Thus they provoked _Him_ to anger with their actions, And the plague broke out among them. ###### 30 Then Phinehas stood up and interceded, And so the plague was checked. ###### 31 And it was counted to him for righteousness, From generation to generation forever. ###### 32 They also provoked _Him_ to wrath at the waters of Meribah, So that it went badly with Moses on their account; ###### 33 Because they were rebellious against His Spirit, He spoke rashly with his lips. ###### 34 They did not destroy the peoples, As Yahweh commanded them, ###### 35 But they mingled with the nations And learned their works, ###### 36 And served their idols, Which became a snare to them. ###### 37 They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons, ###### 38 And they shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons and their daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with the blood. ###### 39 Thus they became unclean in their works, And played the harlot in their actions. ###### 40 So the anger of Yahweh was kindled against His people And He abhorred His inheritance. ###### 41 Then He gave them into the hand of the nations, And those who hated them ruled over them. ###### 42 Their enemies oppressed them, And they were subdued under their hand. ###### 43 Many times He would deliver them; But they were rebellious in their counsel, And _so_ they sank down in their iniquity. ###### 44 Nevertheless He looked upon their distress When He heard their cry of lamentation; ###### 45 And He remembered for them His covenant, And relented according to the abundance of His lovingkindness. ###### 46 He also made them _objects_ of compassion In the presence of all their captors. ###### 47 Save us, O Yahweh our God, And gather us from among the nations, To give thanks to Your holy name And revel in Your praise. ###### 48 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, From everlasting to everlasting. And let all the people say, "Amen." Praise Yah!