¹⁶ And Ehud made for himself a sword, and it had^◦ two mouths^*, a gomed^* in length; and he did·​·gird it under his robe upon his right thigh.

¹ Hallelu-Jah!
Confess ye to Jehovah; for He is good;
for His mercy is to eternity.

² Who will state^◦ the might of Jehovah,
and cause all His praise to be heard?

³ Happy are they who keep judgment,
he who does justice at all times.

⁴ Remember me O Jehovah, in the good·​·pleasure of Thy people;
O visit me with Thy salvation;

⁵ to see the good of Thy chosen,
to be·​·glad in the gladness of Thy nation,
to glory^◦ with^▵ Thine inheritance.

⁶ We have sinned with our fathers,
we have committed·​·iniquity,
we have acted·​·wickedly.

⁷ Our fathers in Egypt comprehended not Thy wonders;
they remembered not the multitude of Thy mercies;
and they rebelled by^◦ the sea, at the Suph sea.

⁸ But He saved them for the sake^◦ of His name,
to make known His might.

⁹ And He rebuked the Suph Sea, and it dried·​·up^◦;
and He made them walk^◦ in the abysses, as the wilderness.

¹⁰ And He saved them from the hand of him who hated them,
and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹ And the waters covered their adversaries;
not one of them^◦ remained.

¹² And they believed in His words;
they sang His praise.

¹³ They hastened, they forgot His deeds;
they tarried not for His counsel:

¹⁴ and they lusted with lust in the wilderness,
and tempted God^◦ in the solitude.

¹⁵ And He gave to them^◦ what they asked;
but sent leanness into their soul.

¹⁶ And they were·​·jealous of Moses in the camp,
of Aaron, the holy·​·one of Jehovah.

¹⁷ The earth opened and swallowed·​·up Dathan,
and covered over the congregation of Abiram.

¹⁸ And a fire burned in their congregation;
the flame set·​·flame·​·to^◦ the wicked.

¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb,
and worshiped a molten image.

²⁰ And they altered their glory
into the shape of an ox that eats the herb.

²¹ They forgot God^◦, their Saviour,
who had done great things in Egypt,

²² wonders in the land of Ham,
fearsome things on the Suph Sea.

²³ And He said that He would blot· them ·out,
unless Moses, His chosen, had stood in the breach before Him,
to turn·​·back His fury from destroying them.

²⁴ But they rejected the land of desire,
they believed not His word;

²⁵ and they muttered in their tents,
they obeyed not 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 to fall among^◦ the nations,
and to disperse them into the lands.

²⁸ And they joined^* themselves to Baal-peor,
and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

²⁹ And they provoked Him with their actions;
and a plague^◦ broke·​·forth on^◦ them.

³⁰ And Phinehas stood up and judged^▵;
and the plague^◦ was restrained.

³¹ And it was reckoned to Him for justice,
to generation and generation even·​·to eternity.

³² And they enraged Him upon the waters of Meribah,
and it was·​·evil unto Moses for their sakes:

³³ for they rebelled·​·against^* His spirit,
and He pronounced with His lips.

³⁴ They blotted· not ·out the peoples,
As^◦ Jehovah said to them^◦;

³⁵ but they mingled themselves among^◦ the nations,
and learned their deeds:

³⁶ and served their idols^◦,
and they became a snare to them^◦;

³⁷ and they sacrificed their sons
and their daughters to demons,

³⁸ and shed innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and of their daughters,
which they sacrificed to the idols^◦ of Canaan.
And the land was contaminated with blood.

³⁹ And they defiled themselves in their deeds,
and committed·​·harlotry in their actions.

⁴⁰ And the anger of Jehovah was·​·fierce against^◦ His people,
and He abominated His inheritance;

⁴¹ and He gave them into the hand of the nations;
and they who hated them ruled over^◦ them.

⁴² And their enemies pressed·​·against them,
and they were humbled under their hand.

⁴³ Many times^◦ did He rescue them;
but they^◦ rebelled in their counsel, and they are worn·​·away in their iniquity.

⁴⁴ And He saw their^◦ distress,
when He heard their loud·​·shout:

⁴⁵ and He remembered for them^◦ His covenant,
and repented according·​·to the multitude of His mercies.

⁴⁶ And He gave them compassion
before all who took· them ·captive.

⁴⁷ Save us, Jehovah our God,
and bring· us ·together from the nations,
to confess the name of Thy holiness,
to extol Thy praise.

⁴⁸ Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel,
from eternity, and even·​·to eternity.
And let all the people say, Amen.
Hallelu-Jah!