Remember Me, O Yahweh

1[†]Praise Yah!

Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for He is good;

For His lovingkindness endures forever.

2Who can speak of the mighty deeds of Yahweh,

Or can make all His praise to be heard?

3How blessed are those who keep [†]justice,

[†]And he who does righteousness at all times!

4Remember me, O Yahweh, in Your favor [†]toward Your people;

Visit me with Your salvation,

5That 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.

6We have sinned with our fathers,

We have committed iniquity, we have acted wickedly.

7Our 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.

8Yet He saved them for the sake of His name,

That He might make His might known.

9Thus He rebuked the [†]Red Sea and it dried up,

And He led them through the deeps, as through the wilderness.

10So He saved them from the [†]hand of the one who hated them,

And redeemed them from the [†]hand of the enemy.

11The waters covered their adversaries;

Not one of them was left.

12Then they believed His words;

They sang His praise.

13They quickly forgot His works;

They did not wait for His counsel,

14But craved intensely in the wilderness,

And put God to the test in the wasteland.

15So He gave them their request,

But sent a [†]wasting disease against their lives.

16Then they became envious of Moses in the camp,

And of Aaron, the holy one of Yahweh,

17The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,

And covered up the [†]company of Abiram.

18And a fire burned up in their company;

The flame consumed the wicked.

19They made a calf in Horeb

And worshiped a molten image.

20Thus they exchanged their glory

For the image of an ox that eats grass.

21They forgot God their Savior,

Who had done great things in Egypt,

22Wondrous deeds in the land of Ham

And awesome things by the [†]Red Sea.

23Therefore 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.

24Then they despised the pleasant land;

They did not believe in His word,

25But grumbled in their tents;

They did not listen to the voice of Yahweh.

26So He [†]swore to them

To make them fall in the wilderness,

27And to make their seed fall among the nations

And to scatter them in the lands.

28They then joined themselves to [†]Baal-peor,

And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

29Thus they provoked Him to anger with their actions,

And the plague broke out among them.

30Then Phinehas stood up and interceded,

And so the plague was checked.

31And it was counted to him for righteousness,

From generation to generation forever.

32They also provoked Him to wrath at the waters of [†]Meribah,

So that it went badly with Moses on their account;

33Because they were rebellious against [†]His Spirit,

He spoke rashly with his lips.

34They did not destroy the peoples,

As Yahweh commanded them,

35But they mingled with the nations

And learned their works,

36And served their idols,

Which became a snare to them.

37They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons,

38And 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.

39Thus they became unclean in their works,

And played the harlot in their actions.

40So the anger of Yahweh was kindled against His people

And He abhorred His [†]inheritance.

41Then He gave them into the hand of the [†]nations,

And those who hated them ruled over them.

42Their enemies oppressed them,

And they were subdued under their hand.

43Many times He would deliver them;

But they were rebellious in their counsel,

And so they sank down in their iniquity.

44Nevertheless He looked upon their distress

When He heard their cry of lamentation;

45And He remembered for them His covenant,

And [†]relented according to the abundance of His lovingkindness.

46He also made them objects of compassion

In the presence of all their captors.

47Save us, O Yahweh our God,

And gather us from among the nations,

To give thanks to Your holy name

And revel in Your praise.

48Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,

From everlasting to everlasting.

And let all the people say, “Amen.”

[†]Praise Yah!