Berean Study Bible | International Standard Version |
1Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever. | 1Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, since he is good, for his gracious love exists forever. |
2Who can describe the mighty acts of the LORD or fully proclaim His praise? | 2Who can fully describe the mighty acts of the LORD or proclaim all his praises? |
3Blessed are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times. | 3How happy are those who enforce justice, who live righteously all the time. |
4Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation, | 4Remember me, LORD, when you show favor to your people. Visit us with your deliverance, |
5that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, and give glory with Your inheritance. | 5to witness the prosperity of your chosen ones, to rejoice in your nation's joy, to glory in your inheritance. |
6We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly. | 6We have sinned, along with our ancestors; we have committed iniquity and wickedness. |
7Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea. | 7In Egypt, our ancestors neither comprehended your awesome deeds nor remembered your abundant gracious love. Instead, they rebelled beside the sea, the Reed Sea. |
8Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known. | 8He delivered for the sake of his name, to make his power known. |
9He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert. | 9He shouted at the Reed Sea and it dried up; and led them through the sea as though through a desert. |
10He saved them from the hand that hated them; He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. | 10He delivered them from the power of their foe; redeeming them from the power of their enemy. |
11The waters covered their foes; not one of them remained. | 11The water overwhelmed their enemies, so that not one of them survived. |
12Then they believed His promises and sang His praise. | 12Then they believed his word and sung his praise. |
13Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel. | 13But they quickly forgot his deeds and did not wait for his counsel. |
14They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert. | 14They were overwhelmed with craving in the wilderness, so God tested them in the wasteland. |
15So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them. | 15God granted them their request, but sent leanness into their lives. |
16In the camp they envied Moses, as well as Aaron, the holy one of the LORD. | 16They were envious of Moses in the camp, and of Aaron, the holy one of the LORD. |
17The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram. | 17The earth opened and swallowed Dathan, closing over Abiram's clan. |
18Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked. | 18Then a fire burned among their company, a flame that set the wicked ablaze. |
19At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image. | 19They fashioned a calf at Horeb and worshipped a carved image. |
20They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox. | 20They exchanged their glory with the image of a grass-eating bull. |
21They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt, | 21They forgot God their Savior, who performed great things in Egypt— |
22wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea. | 22awesome deeds in the land of Ham, astonishing deeds at the Reed Sea. |
23So He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them. | 23He would have destroyed them but for Moses, his chosen one, who stood in the breach before him to avert his destructive wrath. |
24They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise. | 24They rejected the desirable land, and they didn't trust his promise. |
25They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD. | 25They murmured in their tents, and didn't listen to the voice of the LORD. |
26So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness, | 26So he swore an oath concerning them— that he would cause them to die in the wilderness, |
27to disperse their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands. | 27to cause their children to perish among the nations and be scattered among many lands. |
28They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods. | 28For they adopted the worship of Baal Peor and ate sacrifices offered to the dead. |
29So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them. | 29They had provoked anger by their deeds, so that a plague broke out against them. |
30But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained. | 30But Phinehas intervened and prayed so that the plague was restrained. |
31It was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come. | 31And it was credited to him as a righteous act, from generation to generation—to eternity. |
32At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them. | 32They provoked wrath at the waters of Meribah, and Moses suffered on account of them. |
33For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips. | 33For they rebelled against him, so that he spoke thoughtlessly with his lips. |
34They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them, | 34They never destroyed the people, as the LORD had commanded them. |
35but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs. | 35Instead, they mingled among the nations and learned their ways. |
36They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them. | 36They worshipped their idols, and this became a trap for them. |
37They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons. | 37They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons. |
38They shed innocent blood—the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood. | 38They shed innocent blood— the blood of their sons and daughters— whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, thereby polluting the land with blood. |
39They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds. | 39Therefore, they became unclean because of what they did; they have acted like whores by their evil deeds. |
40So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance. | 40The LORD's anger burned against his people, so that he despised his own inheritance. |
41He delivered them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them. | 41He turned them over to domination by nations where those who hated them ruled over them. |
42Their enemies oppressed them, and subdued them under their hand. | 42Their enemies oppressed them, so that they were humiliated by their power. |
43Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity. | 43He delivered them many times, but they demonstrated rebellion by their evil plans; therefore they sunk deep in their sins. |
44Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress. | 44Yet when he saw their distress and heard their cries for help, |
45And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion. | 45he remembered his covenant with them, and so relented according to the greatness of his gracious love. |
46He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive. | 46He caused all their captors to show compassion toward them. |
47Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise. | 47Deliver us, LORD our God, gather us from among the nations so we may praise your holy name and rejoice in praising you. |
48Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Hallelujah! | 48Blessed are you, LORD God of Israel, from eternity to eternity; Let all the people say, "Amen!" Hallelujah! |
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