24 Then they refused the desirable land;

they did not believe his word,

25 but grumbled in their tents.

They did not obey the voice of Yahweh.

26 So ⌊he made an oath⌋i against them,

to make them drop in the wilderness,

27 and to dispersej their ⌊descendants⌋k among the nations

and to scatter them among the lands.

28 They also attached themselves to Baal of Peor,

and they ate sacrifices offered to the dead.l

29 Thus they provoked to anger by their deeds,

and a plague broke out among them.

30 Then Phinehas stood up and intervened,

and so the plague was stopped,

31 and it was reckoned to him as righteousness

⌊throughout all generations⌋.m

32 They also angered God at the waters of Meribah,

and it went badly for Moses on account of them,

33 because they rebelled against his Spirit,n

and he spoke thoughtlessly with his lips.

34 They did not exterminate the peoples,

as Yahweh had commanded them, o

35 but they mingled with the nations

and learned their works,

36 and served their idols,

which becamep a snare to them.

37 They even sacrificed their sons and daughters

to the demons,

38 and they poured out innocent blood,

the blood of their sons and daughters,

whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,

and so the land was defiled with the blood.q

39 And they became unclean by their works,

and were unfaithful in their deeds.

40 So Yahweh’s anger burned against his people,

and he abhorred his inheritance.

41 Then he gave them into the hand of the nations,

and those who hated them ruled over them.

42 And their enemies oppressed them,

and they were subdued under their hand.

43 Many times he delivered them,

but they rebelled in their counsel,

and were brought low by their iniquity.

44 Yet he looked upon their distress

when he heard their cry.

45 And he remembered his covenant with them,

and relented based on the abundance of his loyal love.

46 And he ⌊let them find compassion⌋r

before all their captors.

47 Save us, O Yahweh our God,

and gather us from the nations,

so that we may give thanks to your holy name

and boast in your praise.

48 Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel,

from everlasting and to everlasting.

And let all the people say, “Amen!”

Praise Yah.s