We Have Sinned, Yet He Saved

Verses 1–43 · a long confession of repeated rebellion

1. ^{verse 1}Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
2. ^{verse 2}Who can describe the mighty acts of the LORD or fully proclaim His praise?
3. ^{verse 3}Blessed are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times.
4. ^{verse 4}Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,
5. ^{verse 5}that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, and give glory with Your inheritance.
6. ^{verse 6}We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
7. ^{verse 7}Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.
8. ^{verse 8}Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.
9. ^{verse 9}He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.
10. ^{verse 10}He saved them from the hand that hated them; He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
11. ^{verse 11}The waters covered their foes; not one of them remained.
12. ^{verse 12}Then they believed His promises and sang His praise.
13. ^{verse 13}Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.
14. ^{verse 14}They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.
15. ^{verse 15}So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them.
16. ^{verse 16}In the camp they envied Moses, as well as Aaron, the holy one of the LORD.
17. ^{verse 17}The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.
18. ^{verse 18}Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked.
19. ^{verse 19}At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.
20. ^{verse 20}They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.
21. ^{verse 21}They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,
22. ^{verse 22}wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
23. ^{verse 23}So 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.
24. ^{verse 24}They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.
25. ^{verse 25}They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.
26. ^{verse 26}So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,
27. ^{verse 27}to disperse their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.
28. ^{verse 28}They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
29. ^{verse 29}So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
30. ^{verse 30}But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.
31. ^{verse 31}It was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.
32. ^{verse 32}At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them.
33. ^{verse 33}For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.
34. ^{verse 34}They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,
35. ^{verse 35}but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
36. ^{verse 36}They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.
37. ^{verse 37}They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
38. ^{verse 38}They 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.
39. ^{verse 39}They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
40. ^{verse 40}So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.
41. ^{verse 41}He delivered them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.
42. ^{verse 42}Their enemies oppressed them and subdued them under their hand.
43. ^{verse 43}Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.

Verses 44–48 · God's unwearied mercy and a plea to be gathered

1. ^{verse 44}Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.
2. ^{verse 45}And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.
3. ^{verse 46}He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.
4. ^{verse 47}Save 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.
5. ^{verse 48}Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Hallelujah!