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Praise ye Jah, give thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age, [is] His kindness.

And He saveth them for His name's sake, To make known His might,

They have hasted -- forgotten His works, They have not waited for His counsel.

And they cause wrath by the waters of Meribah, And it is evil to Moses for their sakes,

For they have provoked his spirit, And he speaketh wrongfully with his lips.

And serve their idols, And they are to them for a snare.

And remembereth for them His covenant, And is comforted, According to the abundance of His kindness.

And He appointeth them for mercies Before all their captors.

`Give ye thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age [is] His kindness:'

For He hath satisfied a longing soul, And a hungry soul hath filled [with] goodness.

For He hath broken doors of brass, And bars of iron He hath cut.

A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.

For great above the heavens [is] Thy kindness, And unto the clouds Thy truth.

Moab [is] a pot for my washing, Upon Edom I cast my shoe, Over Philistia I shout habitually.

For the mouth of wickedness, and the mouth of deceit, Against me they have opened, They have spoken with me -- A tongue of falsehood, and words of hatred!

For my love they oppose me, and I -- prayer!

And they set against me evil for good, And hatred for my love.

In his being judged, he goeth forth wicked, And his prayer is for sin.

An exactor layeth a snare for all that he hath, And strangers spoil his labour.

His posterity is for cutting off, In another generation is their name blotted out.