3. How happy are those who uphold justice,who practice righteousness at all times.
4. Remember me, Lord,when You show favor to Your people. Come to me with Your salvation
5. so that I may enjoy the prosperityof Your chosen ones,rejoice in the joy of Your nation,and boast about Your heritage.
6. Both we and our fathers have sinned;we have done wrong and have acted wickedly.
7. Our fathers in Egypt did not graspthe significance of Your wonderful worksor remember Your many acts of faithful love;instead, they rebelled by the sea — the Red Sea.
8. Yet He saved them because of His name,to make His power known.
9. He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;He led them through the depths as through a desert.
10. He saved them from the hand of the adversary;He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
11. Water covered their foes;not one of them remained.
12. Then they believed His promisesand sang His praise.
13. They soon forgot His worksand would not wait for His counsel.
14. They were seized with craving in the wildernessand tested God in the desert.
15. He gave them what they asked for,but sent a wasting disease among them.
16. In the camp they were envious of Mosesand of Aaron, the Lord’s holy one.
17. The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;it covered the assembly of Abiram.
18. Fire blazed throughout their assembly;flames consumed the wicked.
19. At Horeb they made a calfand worshiped the cast metal image.
20. They exchanged their glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.
21. They forgot God their Savior,who did great things in Egypt,
22. wonderful works in the land of Ham, awe-inspiring acts at the Red Sea.
23. So He said He would have destroyed them —if Moses His chosen onehad not stood before Him in the breachto turn His wrath away from destroying them.