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- 0:02Speaker 1: Psalm one hundred and six. Praise Yahweh. Give thanks to Yahweh,
- 0:08Speaker 1: for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
- 0:12Speaker 1: Who can utter the mighty acts of Yahweh are fully
- 0:14Speaker 1: declare all his praise. Blest are those who keep justice.
- 0:18Speaker 1: Blest is one who does what is right at all times.
- 0:21Speaker 1: Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to
- 0:24Speaker 1: your people. Visit me with your salvation, that I may
- 0:28Speaker 1: see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice
- 0:31Speaker 1: in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory
- 0:34Speaker 1: with your inheritance. We have sinned with our fathers. We
- 0:38Speaker 1: have committed iniquity, We have done wickedly. Our fathers didn't
- 0:42Speaker 1: understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn't remember the multitude
- 0:46Speaker 1: of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea,
- 0:49Speaker 1: even at the Red Sea. Nevertheless, he saved them for
- 0:53Speaker 1: his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power known.
- 0:56Speaker 1: He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up.
- 1:00Speaker 1: So he led them through the depths as through a desert.
- 1:03Speaker 1: He saved them from the hand of him who hated them,
- 1:05Speaker 1: and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. The
- 1:08Speaker 1: waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left.
- 1:12Speaker 1: Then they believed his words. They sang his praise. They
- 1:16Speaker 1: soon forgot his works. They didn't wait for his counsel,
- 1:19Speaker 1: but gave in to craving in the desert and tested
- 1:22Speaker 1: God in the waste land. He gave them their request,
- 1:25Speaker 1: but sent leanness into their soul. They envied Moses also
- 1:29Speaker 1: in the camp, and eeron Yahweh Saint. The earth opened
- 1:32Speaker 1: and swallowed up Dathan and covered the company of a byram.
- 1:36Speaker 1: A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned
- 1:40Speaker 1: up the wicked. They made a calf in horeb and
- 1:43Speaker 1: worshiped a molten image. Thus they exchanged their glory for
- 1:47Speaker 1: an image of a bull at each grass. They forgot God,
- 1:50Speaker 1: their savior, who had done great things in Egypt, wondrous
- 1:54Speaker 1: works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by
- 1:57Speaker 1: the Red Sea. Therefore he said that he would just
- 2:00Speaker 1: destroy them. Had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him
- 2:03Speaker 1: in the breach to turn away his wrath so that
- 2:06Speaker 1: he wouldn't destroy them. Yes, they despised the pleasant land.
- 2:10Speaker 1: They didn't believe his word, but murmured in their tents
- 2:13Speaker 1: and didn't listen to Yahweh's voice. Therefore, he swore to
- 2:17Speaker 1: them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness, that
- 2:20Speaker 1: he would overthrow their seed among the nations and scatter
- 2:23Speaker 1: them in the lands. They joined themselves also to bow
- 2:26Speaker 1: pay ore and at the sacrifices of the dead. Thus
- 2:30Speaker 1: they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague
- 2:33Speaker 1: broke in on them. Then Phineas stood up and executed judgment,
- 2:37Speaker 1: so the plague was stopped. That was credited to him
- 2:40Speaker 1: for righteousness for all generations to come. They angered him
- 2:44Speaker 1: also at the waters of Marabah, so that Moses was
- 2:48Speaker 1: troubled for their sakes, because they were rebellious against his spirit.
- 2:52Speaker 1: He spoke rashly with his lips. They didn't destroy the peoples,
- 2:56Speaker 1: as Yahweh commanded them, but mixed themselves with the nations
- 3:00Speaker 1: and learned their works. They served their idols, which became
- 3:03Speaker 1: a snare to them. Yet they sacrificed their sons and
- 3:06Speaker 1: their daughters to demons. They shed innocent blood, even the
- 3:10Speaker 1: blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they
- 3:13Speaker 1: sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted
- 3:17Speaker 1: with blood. Thus were they defiled with their works and
- 3:20Speaker 1: prostituted themselves and their deeds. Therefore, Yahweh burned with anger
- 3:25Speaker 1: against his people. He abhorred his inheritance. He gave them
- 3:29Speaker 1: into the hand of the nations. Those who hated them
- 3:31Speaker 1: ruled over them. Their enemies also oppressed them. They were
- 3:36Speaker 1: brought into subjection under their hand. Many times he delivered them,
- 3:40Speaker 1: but they were rebellious in their council and were brought
- 3:43Speaker 1: low in their iniquity. Nevertheless, he regarded their distress. When
- 3:47Speaker 1: he heard their cry, he remembered for them his covenant
- 3:50Speaker 1: and repented. According to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
- 3:54Speaker 1: He made them also to be pitied by all those
- 3:57Speaker 1: who carried them captive. Save a Hyahweh, our God, gather
- 4:01Speaker 1: us from among the nations to give thanks to your
- 4:04Speaker 1: holy name to triumph in your praise. Blessed be Yahweh,
- 4:08Speaker 1: the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting. Let
- 4:13Speaker 1: all the people say Amen, praise yah