
Day XXI : Evening Prayer

106 - Confitemini Domino

1   O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious, 🞙
    and his mercy endures for ever.

2   Who can express the mighty acts of the Lord, 🞙
    or show forth all his praise?

3   Blessed are those who act with justice, 🞙
    and who always do righteousness.

4   Remember me, O Lord, according to the favor that you show to your people; 🞙
    O visit me with your salvation,

5   That I may see the felicity of your chosen, 🞙
    and rejoice in the gladness of your people, and give thanks with your inheritance.

6   We have sinned like our fathers; 🞙
    we have done wrong and dealt wickedly.

7   Our fathers regarded not your wonders in Egypt, neither did they keep your great goodness in remembrance, 🞙
    but were disobedient at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

8   Nevertheless, he saved them for his Name’s sake, 🞙
    that he might make his power known.

9   He rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up; 🞙
    so he led them through the deep as through a wilderness.

10  And he saved them from the adversary’s hand, 🞙
    and delivered them from the hand of the enemy.

11  As for those who troubled them, the waters overwhelmed them; 🞙
    there was not one of them left.

12  Then they believed his words 🞙
    and sang praises unto him.

13  But soon they forgot his works 🞙
    and would not wait for his counsel.

14  A craving came upon them in the wilderness, 🞙
    and they tempted God in the desert.

15  So he gave them their desire, 🞙
    and sent leanness into their soul.

16  They were envious of Moses also in the camp, 🞙
    and of Aaron the holy one of the Lord.

17  So the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan 🞙
    and covered the company of Abiram,

18  And fire was kindled in their company; 🞙
    the flame burnt up the ungodly.

19  They made a calf in Horeb 🞙
    and worshiped a molten image.

20  Thus they exchanged their glory 🞙
    for the image of a calf that feeds on hay.

21  And they forgot God their Savior, 🞙
    who had done great things in Egypt,

22  Wondrous works in the land of Ham, 🞙
    and fearful things by the Red Sea.

23  So he said he would have destroyed them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the gap 🞙
    to turn away his wrathful indignation, lest he should destroy them.

24  Then they scorned that pleasant land 🞙
    and gave no credence to his word,

25  But murmured in their tents 🞙
    and did not hearken to the voice of the Lord.

26  Then he lifted up his hand against them 🞙
    to overthrow them in the wilderness,

27  To cast out their seed among the nations, 🞙
    and to scatter them in all the lands.

28  They joined themselves to Baal-Peor 🞙
    and ate the offerings to the dead.

29  Thus they provoked him to anger with their wanton deeds, 🞙
    and the plague broke out among them.

30  Then Phineas stood up and interceded, 🞙
    and so the plague was ended;

31  And that was counted to him as righteousness 🞙
    among all generations for evermore.

32  They angered him also at the waters of strife, 🞙
    so that he punished Moses for their misdeeds;

33  For they provoked him to anger, 🞙
    so that he spoke rashly with his lips.

34  Neither did they destroy the peoples 🞙
    as the Lord commanded them,

35  But intermingled among the nations 🞙
    and learned their heathen ways,

36  So that they worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them; 🞙
    they offered their sons and their daughters to demons,

37  And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, 🞙
    whom they offered to the idols of Canaan; and the land was defiled with blood.

38  Thus were they defiled by their own works 🞙
    and went whoring with their own deeds.

39  Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, 🞙
    and he abhorred his own inheritance,

40  And he gave them over into the hands of the nations, 🞙
    and those who hated them were lords over them.

41  Their enemies oppressed them 🞙
    and held them in subjection.

42  Many a time did he deliver them, 🞙
    but they rebelled against him through their own devices, and were brought down in their wickedness.

43  Nevertheless, when he saw their adversity, 🞙
    when he heard their lamentation,

44  He remembered his covenant and pitied them, according to the multitude of his mercies; 🞙
    he made all those who led them away captive to pity them.

45  Deliver us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the nations, 🞙
    that we may give thanks to your holy Name and make our boast of your praise.

46  Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting and world without end, 🞙
    and let all the people say, “Amen.” Praise the Lord.
