¹ Praise ye the LORD.
O give thanks unto the LORD;
for he is good:
for his mercy endureth for ever.
² Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD?
who can shew forth all his praise?
³ Blessed are they that keep judgment,
and he that doeth righteousness at all times.
⁴ Remember me, O LORD,
with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people:
O visit me with thy salvation;
⁵ That I may see the good of thy chosen,
that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation,
that I may glory with thine inheritance.

⁶ We have sinned with our fathers,
we have committed iniquity,
we have done wickedly.
⁷ Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt;
they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies;
but provoked him at the sea,
even at the Red sea.
⁸ Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake,
that he might make his mighty power to be known.
⁹ He rebuked the Red sea also,
and it was dried up:
so he led them through the depths,
as through the wilderness.
¹⁰ And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them,
and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
¹¹ And the waters covered their enemies:
there was not one of them left.
¹² Then believed they his words;
they sang his praise.

¹³ They soon forgat his works;
they waited not for his counsel:
¹⁴ But lusted exceedingly [And they crave a craving]
in the wilderness,
and tempted God in the desert.
¹⁵ And he gave them their request;
but sent leanness into their soul.
¹⁶ They envied Moses also in the camp,
and Aaron the saint of the LORD.
¹⁷ The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
and covered [covered over] the company of Abiram.
¹⁸ And a fire was kindled in their company;
the flame burned up the wicked.
¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb,
and worshipped the molten image.
²⁰ Thus they changed their glory
into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
²¹ They forgat God their saviour,
which had done great things in Egypt;
²² Wondrous works in the land of Ham,
and terrible things by the Red sea.
²³ Therefore he said that he would destroy them,
had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach,
to turn away his wrath,
lest he should destroy them.
²⁴ Yea, they despised the pleasant land,
they believed not his word:
²⁵ But murmured in their tents,
and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.
²⁶ Therefore lifted up his hand against them,
to overthrow them in the wilderness:
²⁷ To overthrow their seed also among the nations,
and to scatter them in the lands.
²⁸ They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor,
and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
²⁹ Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions:
and the plague brake in upon them.
³⁰ Then stood up Phinehas,
and executed judgment:
and so the plague was stayed.
³¹ And that was counted unto him for righteousness
unto all generations [to generation and generation]
for ever more [unto perpetuity].
³² They angered him also at the waters of strife,
so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:
³³ Because they provoked his spirit,
so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
³⁴ They did not destroy the nations,
concerning whom the LORD commanded them:
³⁵ But were mingled among the heathen,
and learned their works.
³⁶ And they served their idols:
which were a snare unto them.
³⁷ Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters
unto devils,
³⁸ And shed innocent blood,
even the blood of their sons and of their daughters,
whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan:
and the land was polluted with blood.
³⁹ Thus were they defiled with their own works,
and went a whoring with their own inventions.
⁴⁰ Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people,
insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
⁴¹ And he gave them into the hand of the heathen;
and they that hated them ruled over them.
⁴² Their enemies also oppressed them,
and they were bought into subjection under their hand.
⁴³ Many times did he deliver them;
but they provoked him with their counsel,
and were bought low for their iniquity.

⁴⁴ Nevertheless he regarded their affliction,
when he heard their cry:
⁴⁵ And he remembered for them his covenant,
and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
⁴⁶ He made them also to be pitied
of all those that carried them captives.

⁴⁷ Save us, O LORD our God,
and gather us from among the heathen,
to give thanks unto thy holy name,
and to triumph in thy praise.
⁴⁸ Blessed be the LORD God of Israel
from everlasting to everlasting:
and let all the people say,
Amen.
Praise ye the LORD.

* NOTE: On Opening and Closing Comments in the Psalms.
[Some commentators take the Psalm in Habakkuk 3 to be a standard model for the Psalms.
Habakkuk's Psalm begins with the name of the composer (Habakkuk) and a musical notation ("upon Shigionoth").
It closes with a dedication or a "send to" notice ("To the chief singer on my stringed instruments").
I have arranged similar material, where it is found in the Psalter, in accord with the model in Habakkuk.]