^6 (A)We have sinned with our fathers,
We have committed iniquity,
We have done wickedly.
⁷ Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders;
They did not remember the multitude of Your mercies,
^(B)But rebelled by the sea—the Red Sea.

⁸ Nevertheless He saved them for His name’s sake,
^(C)That He might make His mighty power known.
^9 (D)He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it dried up;
So ^(E)He led them through the depths,
As through the wilderness.
¹⁰ He ^(F)saved them from the hand of him who hated them,
And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
^11 (G)The waters covered their enemies;
There was not one of them left.
^12 (H)Then they believed His words;
They sang His praise.

^13 (I)They soon forgot His works;
They did not wait for His counsel,
^14 (J)But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,
And tested God in the desert.
^15 (K)And He gave them their request,
But ^(L)sent leanness into their soul.

¹⁶ When ^(M)they envied Moses in the camp,
And Aaron the saint of the Lord,
^17 (N)The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan,
And covered the faction of Abiram.
^18 (O)A fire was kindled in their company;
The flame burned up the wicked.

^19 (P)They made a calf in Horeb,
And worshiped the molded image.
²⁰ Thus ^(Q)they changed their glory
Into the image of an ox that eats grass.
²¹ They forgot God their Savior,
Who had done great things in Egypt,
²² Wondrous works in the land of Ham,
Awesome things by the Red Sea.
^23 (R)Therefore He said that He would destroy them,
Had not Moses His chosen one ^(S)stood before Him in the breach,
To turn away His wrath, lest He destroy them.

²⁴ Then they despised ^(T)the pleasant land;
They ^(U)did not believe His word,
^25 (V)But complained in their tents,
And did not heed the voice of the Lord.
^26 (W)Therefore He raised His hand in an oath against them,
^(X)To ^[a]overthrow them in the wilderness,
^27 (Y)To ^[b]overthrow their descendants among the ^[c]nations,
And to scatter them in the lands.

^28 (Z)They joined themselves also to Baal of Peor,
And ate sacrifices ^[d]made to the dead.
²⁹ Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds,
And the plague broke out among them.
^30 (AA)Then Phinehas stood up and intervened,
And the plague was stopped.
³¹ And that was accounted to him ^(AB)for righteousness
To all generations forevermore.

^32 (AC)They angered Him also at the waters of ^[e]strife,
^(AD)So that it went ill with Moses on account of them;
^33 (AE)Because they rebelled against His Spirit,
So that he spoke rashly with his lips.

^34 (AF)They did not destroy the peoples,
^(AG)Concerning whom the Lord had commanded them,
^35 (AH)But they mingled with the Gentiles
And learned their works;
^36 (AI)They served their idols,
^(AJ)Which became a snare to them.
^37 (AK)They even sacrificed their sons
And their daughters to ^(AL)demons,
³⁸ And shed innocent blood,
The blood of their sons and daughters,
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
And ^(AM)the land was polluted with blood.
³⁹ Thus they ^[f]were ^(AN)defiled by their own works,
And ^(AO)played^[g] the harlot by their own deeds.

⁴⁰ Therefore ^(AP)the wrath of the Lord was kindled against His people,
So that He abhorred ^(AQ)His own inheritance.
⁴¹ And ^(AR)He gave them into the hand of the Gentiles,
And those who hated them ruled over them.
⁴² Their enemies also oppressed them,
And they were brought into subjection under their hand.
^43 (AS)Many times He delivered them;
But they rebelled in their counsel,
And were brought low for their iniquity.

⁴⁴ Nevertheless He regarded their affliction,
When ^(AT)He heard their cry;
^45 (AU)And for their sake He remembered His covenant,
And ^(AV)relented ^(AW)according to the multitude of His mercies.
^46 (AX)He also made them to be pitied
By all those who carried them away captive.

^47 (AY)Save us, O Lord our God,
And gather us from among the Gentiles,
To give thanks to Your holy name,
To triumph in Your praise.

^48 (AZ)Blessed be the Lord God of Israel
From everlasting to everlasting!
And let all the people say, “Amen!”

^[h]Praise the Lord!

³ For I acknowledge my transgressions,
And my sin is always before me.
^4 (A)Against You, You only, have I sinned,
And done this evil ^(B)in Your sight—
^(C)That You may be found just ^[a]when You speak,
And blameless when You judge.