Chapter 105

The Prophet exhorteth the people to render thanks and praise to God, ℣.6 for remitting their manifold sins, in the desert. ℣.34 and in the conquered land: ℣.38 foreshewing like sins to come, God's wrath and punishment for the same. ℣.44 & that he will give grace of repentance to some ℣.47 for which he prayeth and praiseth God.

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   Alleluia. Confess ye to our Lord because he is good: because his mercy is for ever.

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   Who shalt speak the powers of our Lord, shall make all his praises to be heard?

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   Blessed are they, that keep judgment, & do justice at all time.

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   Remember us, o Lord in the good pleasure of thy people: visit us in thy salvation:

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   To see in the goodness of thine elect, to rejoice in the joy of thy nation: that thou mayst be praised with thine inheritance.

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   We have sinned with our fathers: we have dealt unjustly, we have done iniquity.

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   Our fathers in Ægypt did not understand thy marvelous works: they were not mindful of the multitude of thy mercy. And they provoked thee to wrath going up unto the sea, the Red sea.

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   And he saved them for his name sake; that he might make his power known.

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   And he rebuked the Red sea, and it was made dry: and he led them in the depths as in a desert.

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    And he saved them from the hand of them that hated them: and he redeemed them out of the hand of the enemy.

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    And water overwhelmed those that afflicted them: there did not one of them remain.

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    And they believed his words: and they sang his praises.

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    They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they expected not his counsel.

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    And they coveted concupiscence in the desert: and tempted God in the place without water.

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    He gave them their petition: and sent saturity into their souls.

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    And they provoked Moyses in the camp: Aaron the holy of our Lord.

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    The earth was opened, and swallowed Dathan, and overwhelmed the congregation of Abiron.

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    And a fire flamed up in their synagogue: the flame burnt the sinners.

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    And they made a calf in Horeb: and they adored the sculptile.

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    And they changed their glory into the similitude of a calf that eateth grass.

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    They forgat God, which saved them, which did great things in Ægypt,

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    marvelous things in the land of Cham, terrible things in the Red sea.

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    And he said to destroy them: if Moyses his elect had not stood in the way before him. To turn away his wrath that he should not destroy them:

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    and they esteemed for naught the land that was to be desired. They did not believe his word.

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    and they murmured in their tabernacles: they heard not the voice of our Lord.

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    And he lifted up his hand over them: to overthrow them in the desert:

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    And to cast down their seed among the Nations: & to disperse them in the countries.

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    And they were professed to Beelphegor: and they did eat the sacrifices of the dead.

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    And they provoked him in their inventions: & ruin was multiplied on them.

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    And Phinees stood, and pacified: and the slaughter ceased.

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    And it was reputed to him unto justice, in generation and generation even for ever.

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    And they provoked him at the waters of contradiction: and Moyses was vexed for them:

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    because they exasperated his spirit. And he plainly affirmed in his lips:

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    they destroyed not the nations, of which our Lord spake to them.

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    And they were mingled among the nations, and learned their works:

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    and they served their sculptiles: and it became a scandal to them.

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    And they immolated their sons, and their daughters to devils.

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    And they shed innocent blood: the blood of their sons and of their daughters, which they sacrificed to the sculptiles of Chanaan. And the land was infected with blood,

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    & was contaminated in their works: and they did fornicate in their inventions.

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    And our Lord was wrath with fury upon his people: and he abhorred his inheritance.

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    And he delivered them into the hands of the nations: and they that hated them had the dominion of them.

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    And their enemies afflicted them, and they were humbled under their hands:

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    he did often deliver them. But they exasperated him in their counsel: and they were humbled in their iniquities.

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    And he saw when they were afflicted: and he heard their prayer.

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    And he was mindful of his testament: and it repented him according to the multitude of his mercy.

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    And he gave them into mercies in the sight of all, that had taken them.

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    Save us, o Lord our God: and gather us out of the Nations. That we may confess to thy holy name: & may glory in thy praise.

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    Blessed be our Lord the God of Israel from everlasting unto everlasting: and all the people shall say: Be it, be it.