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Librocubicularist
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Ohio
Posts: 10,466
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Ps 106:1
- Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good;his love endures forever.
- Who can proclaim the mighty acts of the LORDor fully declare his praise?
- Blessed are they who maintain justice,who constantly do what is right.
- Remember me, O LORD, when you show favor to your people,come to my aid when you save them,
- that I may enjoy the prosperity of your chosen ones,that I may share in the joy of your nation and join your inheritance in giving praise.
- We have sinned, even as our fathers did;we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
- When our fathers were in Egypt,they gave no thought to your miracles;they did not remember your many kindnesses,and they rebelled by the sea, the Red Sea.
- Yet he saved them for his name's sake,to make his mighty power known.
- He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;he led them through the depths as through a desert.
- He saved them from the hand of the foe; from the hand of the enemy he redeemed them.
- The waters covered their adversaries;not one of them survived.
- Then they believed his promises and sang his praise.
- But they soon forgot what he had done and did not wait for his counsel.
- In the desert they gave in to their craving;in the wasteland they put God to the test.
- So he gave them what they asked for,but sent a wasting disease upon them.
- In the camp they grew envious of Moses and of Aaron, who was consecrated to the LORD.
- The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;it buried the company of Abiram.
- Fire blazed among their followers;a flame consumed the wicked.
- At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped an idol cast from metal.
- They exchanged their Glory for an image of a bull, which eats grass.
- They forgot the God who saved them,who had done great things in Egypt,
- miracles in the land of Ham and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
- So he said he would destroy them — had not Moses, his chosen one,stood in the breach before him to keep his wrath from destroying them.
- Then they despised the pleasant land;they did not believe his promise.
- They grumbled in their tents and did not obey the LORD.
- So he swore to them with uplifted hand that he would make them fall in the desert,
- make their descendants fall among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.
- They yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods;
- they provoked the LORD to anger by their wicked deeds,and a plague broke out among them.
- But Phinehas stood up and intervened,and the plague was checked.
- This was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.
- By the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD,and trouble came to Moses because of them;
- for they rebelled against the Spirit of God,and rash words came from Moses' lips.
- They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,
- but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
- They worshiped their idols,which became a snare to them.
- They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
- They shed innocent blood,the blood of their sons and daughters,whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,and the land was desecrated by their blood.
- They defiled themselves by what they did;by their deeds they prostituted themselves.
- Therefore the LORD was angry with his people and abhorred his inheritance.
- He handed them over to the nations,and their foes ruled over them.
- Their enemies oppressed them and subjected them to their power.
- Many times he delivered them,but they were bent on rebellion and they wasted away in their sin.
- But he took note of their distress when he heard their cry;
- for their sake he remembered his covenant and out of his great love he relented.
- He caused them to be pitied by all who held them captive.
- Save us, O LORD our God,and gather us from the nations,that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.
- Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel,from everlasting to everlasting.Let all the people say, "Amen!"
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