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15 So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them.
16 In the camp they envied Moses, as well as Aaron, the holy one of the LORD.
17 The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.
18 Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked.
19 At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten 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 wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
23 So He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.
24 They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.
25 They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.
26 So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,
27 to disperse their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.
28 They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
29 So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
30 But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.
31 It was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.
32 At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them.
33 For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.
34 They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,
35 but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
36 They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.
37 They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
38 They shed innocent blood—the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.
39 They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
40 So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.
41 He delivered them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.
42 Their enemies oppressed them, and subdued them under their hand.
43 Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.
44 Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.
45 And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.
46 He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.
47 Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.
48 Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Hallelujah!