28. Then they yoked themselves to Baal of Peor, and ate the sacrifices of dead things.
29. So they provoked Him with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
30. But Phinehas stood up and intervened, so the plague was stopped.
31. It was credited to him as righteousness, from generation to generation forever.
32. By the waters of Meribah they angered Him, and trouble came on Moses because of them.
33. For they embittered his spirit and he spoke rashly with his lips.
34. They did not destroy the peoples, as Adonai had commanded them.
35. Instead they mingled with the nations and learned their practices.
36. They worshipped their idols, which became a snare to them.
37. They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
38. They shed innocent blood—the blood of their sons and their daughters, sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. So the land was desecrated with blood.
39. So they defiled themselves by their deeds, and prostituted themselves by their practices.
40. Therefore the anger of Adonai was kindled against His people, and He abhorred His inheritance.
41. He handed them to the nations— those who hated them ruled over them.
42. Their enemies oppressed them, so they were subdued under their hand.
43. Many times He delivered them, but they kept rebelling deliberately, and so sank low into their iniquity.
44. Yet He saw their distress, when He heard their cry,
45. remembered His covenant to them, and relented in the greatness of His mercy.