The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

Thou hidest Thy face, they vanish; Thou withdrawest their breath, they perish, and return to their dust.

Thou sendest forth Thy spirit, they are created; and Thou renewest the face of the earth.

May the glory of the LORD endure for ever; let the LORD rejoice in His works!

Who looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; He toucheth the mountains, and they smoke.

I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.

Let my musing be sweet unto Him; as for me, I will rejoice in the LORD.

Let sinners cease out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Hallelujah.

O give thanks unto the LORD, call upon His name; make known His doings among the peoples.

Sing unto Him, sing praises unto Him; speak ye of all His marvellous works.

Glory ye in His holy name; let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.

Seek ye the LORD and His strength; seek His face continually.

Remember His marvellous works that He hath done, His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth;

O ye seed of Abraham His servant, ye children of Jacob, His chosen ones.

He is the LORD our God; His judgments are in all the earth.

He hath remembered His covenant for ever, the word which He commanded to a thousand generations;

The covenant which He made with Abraham, and His oath unto Isaac;

And He established it unto Jacob for a statute, to Israel for an everlasting covenant;

Saying: 'Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance.'

When they were but a few men in number. Yea, very few, and sojourners in it,

And when they went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,

He suffered no man to do them wrong, yea, for their sake He reproved kings:

'Touch not Mine anointed ones, and do My prophets no harm.'

And He called a famine upon the land; He broke the whole staff of bread.

He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a servant;

His feet they hurt with fetters, his person was laid in iron;

Until the time that his word came to pass, the word of the LORD tested him.

The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the peoples, and set him free.

He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his possessions;

To bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom.

Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

And He increased His people greatly, and made them too mighty for their adversaries.

He turned their heart to hate His people, to deal craftily with His servants.

He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron whom He had chosen.

They wrought among them His manifold signs, and wonders in the land of Ham.

He sent darkness, and it was dark; and they rebelled not against His word.

He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.

Their land swarmed with frogs, in the chambers of their kings.

He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats in all their borders.

He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.

He smote their vines also and their fig-trees; and broke the trees of their borders.

He spoke, and the locust came, and the canker-worm without number,

And did eat up every herb in their land, and did eat up the fruit of their ground.

He smote also all the first-born in their land, the first-fruits of all their strength.

And He brought them forth with silver and gold; and there was none that stumbled among His tribes.

Egypt was glad when they departed; for the fear of them had fallen upon them.

He spread a cloud for a screen; and fire to give light in the night.

They asked, and He brought quails, and gave them in plenty the bread of heaven.

He opened the rock, and waters gushed out; they ran, a river in the dry places.

For He remembered His holy word unto Abraham His servant;

And He brought forth His people with joy, His chosen ones with singing.

And He gave them the lands of the nations, and they took the labour of the peoples in possession;

That they might keep His statutes, and observe His laws. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. O give thanks unto the LORD; for He is good; for His mercy endureth for ever.

Who can express the mighty acts of the LORD, or make all His praise to be heard?

Happy are they that keep justice, that do righteousness at all times.

Remember me, O LORD, when Thou favourest Thy people; O think of me at Thy salvation;

That I may behold the prosperity of Thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of Thy nation, that I may glory with Thine inheritance.

We have sinned with our fathers, we have done iniquitously, we have dealt wickedly.

Our fathers in Egypt gave no heed unto Thy wonders; they remembered not the multitude of Thy mercies; but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

Nevertheless He saved them for His name's sake, that He might make His mighty power to be known.

And He rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up; and He led them through the depths, as through a wilderness.

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

And the waters covered their adversaries; there was not one of them left.

Then believed they His words; they sang His praise.

They soon forgot His works; they waited not for His counsel;

But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tried God in the desert.

And He gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.

They were jealous also of Moses in the camp, and of Aaron the holy one of the LORD.

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped a molten image.

Thus they exchanged their glory for the likeness of an ox that eateth grass.

They forgot God their saviour, who had done great things in Egypt;

Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.

Therefore He said that He would destroy them, had not Moses His chosen stood before Him in the breach, to turn back His wrath, lest He should destroy them.

Moreover, they scorned the desirable land, they believed not His word;

And they murmured in their tents, they hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.

Therefore He swore concerning them, that He would overthrow them in the wilderness;

And that He would cast out their seed among the nations, and scatter them in the lands.

They joined themselves also unto Baal of Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

Thus they provoked Him with their doings, and the plague broke in upon them.

Then stood up Phinehas, and wrought judgment, and so the plague was stayed.

And that was counted unto him for righteousness, unto all generations for ever.

They angered Him also at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses because of them;

For they embittered his spirit, and he spoke rashly with his lips.

They did not destroy the peoples, as the LORD commanded them;

But mingled themselves with the nations, and learned their works;

And they served their idols, which became a snare unto them;

Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,

And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.

Thus were they defiled with their works, and went astray in their doings.

Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against His people, and He abhorred His inheritance.

And He gave them into the hand of the nations; and they that hated them ruled over them.

Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were subdued under their hand.

Many times did He deliver them; but they were rebellious in their counsel, and sank low through their iniquity.

Nevertheless He looked upon their distress, when He heard their cry;

And He remembered for them His covenant, and repented according to the multitude of His mercies.

He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captive.

Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the nations, that we may give thanks unto Thy holy name, that we may triumph in Thy praise.

Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting, and let all the people say: 'Amen.' Hallelujah.