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Praise the Lord our God, and worship at the Temple, his footstool. He is holy.

Lord our God, you answered them. You showed them that you are a forgiving God, but you punished them for their wrongs.

Praise the Lord our God, and worship at his holy mountain, because the Lord our God is holy.

Know that the Lord is God. He made us, and we belong to him; we are his people, the sheep he tends.

God has made me tired of living; he has cut short my life.

So I said, "My God, do not take me in the middle of my life. Your years go on and on.

My whole being, praise the Lord . Lord my God, you are very great. You are clothed with glory and majesty;

The lions roar as they attack. They look to God for food.

I will sing to the Lord all my life; I will sing praises to my God as long as I live.

He is the Lord our God. His laws are for all the world.

God ordered a time of hunger in the land, and he destroyed all the food.

God split the rock, and water flowed out; it ran like a river through the desert.

So God brought his people out with joy, his chosen ones with singing.

They became greedy for food in the desert, and they tested God there.

They exchanged their glorious God for a statue of a bull that eats grass.

They forgot the God who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt,

So God said he would destroy them. But Moses, his chosen one, stood before him and stopped God's anger from destroying them.

Then they refused to go into the beautiful land of Canaan; they did not believe what God promised.

The people turned against the Spirit of God, so Moses spoke without stopping to think.

The people became unholy by their sins; they were unfaithful to God in what they did.