¹ Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord because he is good, for his mercie endureth for euer.

² Who can expresse the noble actes of the Lord, or shewe forth all his prayse?

³ Blessed are they that keepe iudgement, and doe righteousnesse at all times.

⁴ Remember me, O Lord, with the fauour of thy people: visite me with thy saluation,

⁵ That I may see the felicitie of thy chosen, and reioyce in the ioy of thy people, and glorie with thine inheritance.

⁶ We haue sinned with our fathers: we haue committed iniquitie, and done wickedly.

⁷ Our fathers vnderstoode not thy wonders in Egypt, neither remembred they the multitude of thy mercies, but rebelled at the Sea, euen at the red sea.

⁸ Neuerthelesse he saued them for his Names sake, that he might make his power to be knowen.

⁹ And he rebuked the red Sea, and it was dryed vp, and he led them in the deepe, as in the wildernesse.

¹⁰ And he saued them from ye aduersaries hand, and deliuered them from ye hand of the enemie.

¹¹ And the waters couered their oppressours: not one of them was left.

¹² Then beleeued they his wordes, and sang prayse vnto him.

¹³ But incontinently they forgate his workes: they wayted not for his counsell,

¹⁴ But lusted with concupiscence in the wildernes, and tempted God in the desert.

¹⁵ Then he gaue them their desire: but he sent leannesse into their soule.

¹⁶ They enuied Moses also in the tentes, and Aaron the holy one of the Lord.

¹⁷ Therefore the earth opened and swallowed vp Dathan, and couered the companie of Abiram.

¹⁸ And the fire was kindled in their assembly: the flame burnt vp the wicked.

¹⁹ They made a calfe in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.

²⁰ Thus they turned their glory into the similitude of a bullocke, that eateth grasse.

²¹ They forgate God their Sauiour, which had done great things in Egypt,

²² Wonderous woorkes in the lande of Ham, and fearefull things by the red Sea.

²³ Therefore he minded to destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stand in the breach before him to turne away his wrath, least he shoulde destroy them.

²⁴ Also they contemned that pleasant land, and beleeued not his worde,

²⁵ But murmured in their tentes, and hearkened not vnto the voice of the Lord.

²⁶ Therefore hee lifted vp his hande against them, to destroy them in the wildernesse,

²⁷ And to destroy their seede among the nations, and to scatter them throughout the countries.

²⁸ They ioyned themselues also vnto Baalpeor, and did eate the offrings of the dead.

²⁹ Thus they prouoked him vnto anger with their owne inuentions, and the plague brake in vpon them.

³⁰ But Phinehas stoode vp, and executed iudgement, and the plague was staied.

³¹ And it was imputed vnto him for righteousnes from generation to generation for euer.

³² They angred him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was punished for their sakes,

³³ Because they vexed his spirite, so that hee spake vnaduisedly with his lippes.

³⁴ Neither destroied they the people, as the Lord had commanded them,

³⁵ But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their workes,

³⁶ And serued their idoles, which were their ruine.

³⁷ Yea, they offered their sonnes, and their daughters vnto deuils,

³⁸ And shed innocent blood, euen the blood of their sonnes, and of their daughters, whome they offred vnto the idoles of Canaan, and the lande was defiled with blood.

³⁹ Thus were they steined with their owne woorkes, and went a whoring with their owne inuentions.

⁴⁰ Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and he abhorred his owne inheritance.

⁴¹ And hee gaue them into the hande of the heathen: and they that hated them, were lordes ouer them.

⁴² Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were humbled vnder their hand.

⁴³ Many a time did hee deliuer them, but they prouoked him by their counsels: therefore they were brought downe by their iniquitie.

⁴⁴ Yet hee sawe when they were in affliction, and he heard their crie.

⁴⁵ And he remembred his couenant towarde them and repented according to the multitude of his mercies,

⁴⁶ And gaue them fauour in the sight of all them that lead them captiues.

⁴⁷ Saue vs, O Lord our God, and gather vs from among the heathen, that we may praise thine holy Name, and glorie in thy praise.

⁴⁸ Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for euer and euer, and let all the people say, So be it. Praise yee the Lord.