146 lines
4.7 KiB
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146 lines
4.7 KiB
Markdown
## Remember Me, O Yahweh
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Praise Yah! Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for He is good; For His lovingkindness endures forever.
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Who can speak of the mighty deeds of Yahweh, Or can make all His praise to be heard?
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How blessed are those who keep justice, _And he_ who does righteousness at all times!
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Remember me, O Yahweh, in _Your_ favor toward Your people; Visit me with Your salvation,
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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.
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We have sinned with our fathers, We have committed iniquity, we have acted wickedly.
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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.
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Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, That He might make His might known.
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Thus He rebuked the Red Sea and it dried up, And He led them through the deeps, as through the wilderness.
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So He saved them from the hand of the one who hated _them_, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
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The waters covered their adversaries; Not one of them was left.
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Then they believed His words; They sang His praise.
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They quickly forgot His works; They did not wait for His counsel,
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But craved intensely in the wilderness, And put God to the test in the wasteland.
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So He gave them their request, But sent a wasting disease against their lives.
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Then they became envious of Moses in the camp, And of Aaron, the holy one of Yahweh,
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The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, And covered up the company of Abiram.
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And a fire burned up in their company; The flame consumed the wicked.
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They made a calf in Horeb And worshiped a molten image.
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Thus they exchanged their glory For the image of an ox that eats grass.
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They forgot God their Savior, Who had done great things in Egypt,
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Wondrous deeds in the land of Ham _And_ awesome things by the Red Sea.
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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_.
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Then they despised the pleasant land; They did not believe in His word,
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But grumbled in their tents; They did not listen to the voice of Yahweh.
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So He swore to them To make them fall in the wilderness,
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And to make their seed fall among the nations And to scatter them in the lands.
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They then joined themselves to Baal-peor, And ate sacrifices _offered to_ the dead.
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Thus they provoked _Him_ to anger with their actions, And the plague broke out among them.
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Then Phinehas stood up and interceded, And so the plague was checked.
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And it was counted to him for righteousness, From generation to generation forever.
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They also provoked _Him_ to wrath at the waters of Meribah, So that it went badly with Moses on their account;
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Because they were rebellious against His Spirit, He spoke rashly with his lips.
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They did not destroy the peoples, As Yahweh commanded them,
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But they mingled with the nations And learned their works,
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And served their idols, Which became a snare to them.
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They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons,
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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.
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Thus they became unclean in their works, And played the harlot in their actions.
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So the anger of Yahweh was kindled against His people And He abhorred His inheritance.
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Then He gave them into the hand of the nations, And those who hated them ruled over them.
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Their enemies oppressed them, And they were subdued under their hand.
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Many times He would deliver them; But they were rebellious in their counsel, And _so_ they sank down in their iniquity.
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Nevertheless He looked upon their distress When He heard their cry of lamentation;
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And He remembered for them His covenant, And relented according to the abundance of His lovingkindness.
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He also made them _objects_ of compassion In the presence of all their captors.
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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.
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Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, From everlasting to everlasting. And let all the people say, "Amen." Praise Yah!
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