Psalms 118

2 Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. 3 Who shall declare the powers of the Lord? who shall set forth all his praises? 4 Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do justice at all times. 5 Remember us, O Lord, in the favour of thy people: visit us with thy salvation. 6 That we may see the good of thy chosen, that we may rejoice in the joy of thy nation: that thou mayst be praised with thy inheritance. 7 We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity. 8 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up to the sea, even the Red Sea. 9 And he saved them for his own name’s sake: that he might make his power known. 10 And he rebuked the Red Sea and it was dried up: and he led them through the depths, as in a wilderness. 11 And he saved them from the hand of them that hated them: and he redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. 12 And the water covered them that afflicted them: there was not one of them left. 13 And they believed his words: and they sang his praises. 14 They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they waited not for his counsel. 15 And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water. 16 And he gave them their request: and sent fulness into their souls. 17 And they provoked Moses in the camp, Aaron the holy one of the Lord. 18 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan: and covered the congregation of Abiron. 19 And a fire was kindled in their congregation: the flame burned the wicked. 20 They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven thing. 21 And they changed their glory into the likeness of a calf that eateth grass. 22 They forgot God, who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt, 23 Wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red Sea. 24 And 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. 25 And they set at nought the desirable land. They believed not his word, 26 And they murmured in their tents: they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord. 27 And he lifted up his hand over them: to overthrow them in the desert; 28 And to cast down their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the countries. 29 They also were initiated to Beelphegor: and ate the sacrifices of the dead.