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\v 1 Praise Yahweh!
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\q1 Praise Yahweh because he everything he does is good;
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\q2 he faithfully loves us forever as he promised us!
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\v 2 Because Yahweh has done many great things,
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\q2 no one can tell all the great things that Yahweh has done,
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\q2 and no one can praise him enough.
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\v 3 How fortunate are those who act fairly,
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\q2 those who always do what is right.
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\v 4 Yahweh, be kind to me when you help your people;
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\q2 help me when you rescue them.
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\v 5 Allow me to see your people become prosperous again
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\q2 and to see all the people of your nation, Israel, become happy again;
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\q2 allow me to be happy with them!
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\q2 I want to praise you along with all those others who belong to you.
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\v 6 We and our ancestors have sinned;
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\q2 we have done what is wicked and evil.
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\v 7 When our ancestors were in Egypt,
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\q2 they did not pay attention to the wonderful things that Yahweh did;
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\q2 they forgot about the many times that he showed that he faithfully loved them.
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\q1 Instead, when they were at the Sea of Reeds,
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\q2 they rebelled against God, who is greater than any other god.
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\v 8 But he rescued them for the sake of his own reputation
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\q2 so that he could show that he is very powerful.
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\v 9 He rebuked the Sea of Reeds and it became dry,
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\q2 and then while he led our ancestors,
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\q2 they walked through it as though it were as dry as a desert.
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\v 10 In that way he rescued them from the power of their enemies.
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\v 11 Then their enemies were drowned in the water of the Sea of Reeds;
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\q2 not one of them was left.
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\v 12 When that happened, our ancestors believed that Yahweh had truly done for them what he had promised to do,
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\q2 and they sang to praise him.
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\v 13 But they soon forgot what he had done for them;
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\q2 they did things without waiting to find out what Yahweh wanted them to do.
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\v 14 They intensely wanted food like they formerly ate in Egypt.
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\q2 They did evil things to find out whether God would punish them or not.
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\v 15 So he gave them what they requested,
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\q2 but he also caused a terrible disease to afflict them.
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\v 16 Later when some of the men became jealous of Moses
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\q1 and his older brother Aaron, who was dedicated to serve Yahweh by being a priest,
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\v 17 the ground opened up and swallowed Dathan
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\q2 and also buried Abiram and his family.
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\v 18 God sent down from heaven a fire
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\q2 which burned up all the wicked people who supported them.
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\v 19 Then the Israelite leaders made a gold statue of a calf at Mount Sinai
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\q2 and worshiped it.
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\v 20 Instead of worshiping our glorious God,
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\q2 they started to worship a statue of an ox that eats grass!
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\v 21 They forgot about God, who had rescued them by the great miracles that he performed in Egypt.
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\v 22 They forgot about the wonderful things that he did for them in Egypt
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\q2 and the amazing things that he did for them at the Sea of Reeds.
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\v 23 Because of that, God said that he would get rid of the Israelites;
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\q2 but Moses, whom God had chosen to serve him, stood up to persuade God not to do that.
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\q2 As a result, God did not destroy them.
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\v 24 Later, our ancestors refused to enter the beautiful land of Canaan
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\q2 because they did not believe that God would do as he promised and would enable them to take the land from the people who were living there.
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\v 25 They stayed in their tents and grumbled
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\q2 and would not pay attention to what Yahweh said that they should do.
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\v 26 So he solemnly told them
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\q2 that he would cause them to die there in the wilderness,
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\v 27 that he would scatter their descendants among the people of other nations and groups who did not believe in him,
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\q2 and that he would allow them to die in those lands.
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\v 28 Later the Israelite people started to worship the idol of Baal at Mount Peor,
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\q1 and they ate meat that had been sacrificed to Baal and those other lifeless gods.
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\v 29 Yahweh became very angry because of what they had done,
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\q2 so again he sent a terrible disease to attack them.
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\v 30 But Phinehas stood up and punished the ones who had sinned greatly,
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\q2 and as a result the plague ended.
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\v 31 People have remembered that righteous deed that Phinehas did,
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\q2 and in future years people will remember it.
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\v 32 Then at the springs of Meribah our ancestors caused Yahweh to become angry again,
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\q2 and as a result Moses had trouble.
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\v 33 They caused Moses to become very angry,
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\q2 and he said things that were foolish.
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\v 34 Our ancestors did not destroy the other people groups
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\q2 as he told them to do.
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\v 35 Instead, the men took women from those people groups,
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\q2 and they started to do the evil things that those people did.
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\v 36 Our ancestors worshiped the idols of those people,
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\q2 which resulted in their being destroyed.
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\v 37 Some of the Israelites sacrificed their sons and daughters to the demons that those idols represented.
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\v 38 They killed children who had done nothing wrong,
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\q1 and offered them as sacrifices to the idols in Canaan.
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\q2 As a result, the land of Canaan was polluted by those murders.
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\v 39 So by their deeds they made it impossible for God to accept them;
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\q2 because they did not faithfully worship only God,
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\q2 they became like women who sleep with other men instead of sleeping only with their husbands.
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\v 40 So Yahweh became very angry with his people;
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\q2 he was completely disgusted with them.
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\v 41 As a result, he allowed people groups who did not believe in him to conquer them,
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\q2 so those who hated our ancestors started to rule over them.
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\v 42 Their enemies oppressed them
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\q2 and completely controlled them.
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\v 43 Many times Yahweh rescued his people,
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\q2 but they continued to rebel against him,
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\q2 and they were finally destroyed because of the sins that they committed.
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\v 44 However, Yahweh always heard them when they cried out to him,
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\q2 and he listened to them when they were distressed.
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\v 45 For their sake, he thought about the covenant that he had made to bless them;
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\q2 because he never stopped loving them very much,
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\q2 he changed his mind about punishing them more.
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\v 46 He caused all those who had taken the Israelites to Babylonia to feel sorry for them.
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\v 47 Yahweh our God, rescue us
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\q1 and bring us back to Israel from among those people groups
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\q2 so that we may thank you
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\q2 and joyfully praise you.
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\v 48 Praise Yahweh, the God whom we Israelites worship,
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\q1 praise him now and forever!
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\q1 All the people should agree!
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\q2 Praise Yahweh!
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