8 But he saved them for his name's sake,

To make known his might.

9 And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;

And he made them go through the depths, as in the wil

derness.

10 And he saved them out of the hand of the hater,

And redeemed them out of the hand of the enemy. 11 And the waters covered their foes ;

Not one of them was left.

12 And they believed his words, They sang his praise.

13 They made haste to forget his doings; They waited not for his counsel.

14 They had greedy longings in the wilderness, And they tempted God in the desert.

15 And he gave them their request,

And sent leanness in their soul.

16 And they were envious of Moses in the camp,
Of Aaron, the holy one of Jehovah.

17 The earth opened, and swallowed up Dathan,
And covered over the company of Abiram.
18 And fire burned in their company;

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A flame consumed the wicked.

They made a calf in Horeb,

And worshiped a molten image;

20 And changed their glory,

Into the likeness of an ox that eats grass. 21 They forgot God, who saved them; Who did great things in Egypt,

V. 13. Made haste.] "Soon," (common English version,) does not express the idea. Their inherent perverseness made haste to show itself. V. 13, 2d member. His counsel.] His own purpose and plan for their relief.

V. 18. Commonly, and perhaps correctly, understood to refer to Num. 16: 35, 26: 10, which may seem to be favored by the use of the word "company," as in the preceding verse. But the Hebrew words are in part repeated from Num. 11: 1, 3, and their "company" may mean the congregation or assembly of Israel, as often elsewhere.

22 Wondrous things in the land of Ham, Terrible things by the Red Sea.

23 And he said he would destroy them;

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Had not Moses stood in the breach before him,
To turn back his wrath from destroying.

And they rejected the pleasant land;
They believed not his word.

25 And they murmured in their tents;

They hearkened not to the voice of Jehovah. 26 And he lifted up his hand to them,

To make them fall in the wilderness;

27 And to make their seed fall among the nations, And to scatter them in the lands.

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And they joined themselves to Baal-Peor, And ate the sacrifices of the dead.

29 And they provoked displeasure by their deeds, And a plague broke in upon them.

30 Then Phineas stood up, and executed judgment, And the plague was stayed.

31 And it was reckoned to him for righteousness, To generation and generation, forevermore.

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They provoked anger at the waters of Strife; And it went ill with Moses on their account. 33 For they provoked his spirit,

And he spoke unadvisedly with his lips. 34 They did not destroy the peoples, Of whom Jehovah told them;

35 But mixed themselves with the heathen, And learned their works;

V. 26. Lifted up his hand.] In confirmation of an oath ; as in Ex. : 8 (properly, "I lifted my hand to give it to Abraham "), Deut. 32 : 40. Compare Gen. 14 : 22.

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V. 26, 2d member. The words of the oath (Num. 14: 29) “Shall fall in this wilderness." They should be retained, therefore, in the version here.

V. 28, 2d member. The dead.] Lifeless idols.

V. 32. Of Strife.] Of Meribah.

36 And they served their idols,

And they became a snare to them.

37 And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to de

mons.

38 And they shed innocent blood;

Blood of their sons and their daughters,
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan
And the land was polluted with bloodshed.

39 And they were defiled with their works,
And played the harlot in their deeds.

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And Jehovah's anger was kindled against his people, And he abhorred his heritage.

41 And he gave them into the hand of the heathen, And they that hated them ruled over them.

42 And their enemies oppressed them,

And they were bowed down under their hand. 43 Many times would he rescue them;

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And they rebelled in their counsel,

And were brought low for their iniquity.
But he looked on their distress,

When he heard their cry.

45 And he remembered for them his covenant,

And pitied them according to the abundance of his mercy;

46 And made them objects of compassion,

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In presence of all that carried them captive.

Save us, Jehovah, our God,

And gather us from the nations ;

To give thanks to thy holy name,
To glory in thy praise.

BLESSED BE JEHOVAH, GOD OF ISRAEL,
FROM EVERLASTING, AND TO EVERLASting.
AND LET ALL THE PEOPLE SAY, AMEN.
PRAISE YE JAH.

V. 39, 2d member Compare the remark on Ps. 73 : 27.

V. 43. Their counsel.] What they devised and planned for themselves, without regard to Jehovali's purposes and will.

FIFTH BOOK.

PSALM CVII.

1 GIVE thanks to Jehovah, for he is good; For his mercy is forever.

2 Let the redeemed of Jehovah say it,

Whom he redeemed from the hand of the foe;

3 And gathered them out of the lands,

From the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.

They wandered in the wilderness, in a desert way; They found not a city for a habitation.

5 Hungry and thirsty,

Their soul fainted in them.

6 Then they cried to Jehovah in their trouble, And he rescued them out of their distresses.

7 And he led them by a straight way,

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That they might go to a city for a habitation.

Let them give thanks to Jehovah for his mercy, And his wonderful works to the sons of men.

9 For he satisfies the longing soul,

And the hungry soul he fills with good.

As they sat in darkness and the shadow of death, Bound in affliction and iron ;

11 Because they rebelled against the words of the Mighty One, And contemned the counsel of the Most High,

12 And he bowed down their heart with trouble, They stumbled, and there was none to help ;13 Then they cried to Jehovah in their strait, And he saved them out of their distresses.

14 He brought them out from darkness and the shadow of

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death,

And broke their bands asunder.

Let them give thanks to Jehovah for his mercy,

And his wonderful works to the sons of men.

16 For he has broken the doors of brass,

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And cut the bars of iron asunder.

Fools, because of their way of transgression,

And because of their iniquities, bring affliction on themselves.

18 All food their soul abhors,

And they draw near unto the gates of death. 19 Then they cry to Jehovah in their strait,

And he saves them out of their distresses.

20 He sends his word, and heals them,

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And delivers them from their pits.

Let them give thanks to Jehovah for his mercy, And his wonderful works to the sons of men.

22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, And recount his works with rejoicing.

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They that go down to the sea in ships,

That do business in great waters;

24 These see the works of Jehovah,

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And his wonders in the deep.

For he spoke, and raised a stormy wind,

And it lifted up the waves thereof.

26 They mount up to the heavens, they go down to the

abysses;

Their soul is melted because of trouble.

27 They reel and stagger like a drunken man, And all their wisdom comes to naught.

28 Then they cry to Jehovah in their strait, And he brings them out of their distresses.

V. 20. Their pits.] Intended for them, and into which they are about to fall.

V. 24. His wonders.] Such as are spoken of in the following verses.