5. Let me see the good things you do for your chosen people.Let me be happy along with your happy nation.Let me join your own people in praising you.
6. We have sinned just as our ancestors did.We have done wrong. We have done evil.
7. Our ancestors in Egyptdid not learn from your miracles.They did not remember all your kindnesses.So they turned against you at the Red Sea.
8. But the Lord saved them for his own sake,to show his great power.
9. He commanded the Red Sea, and it dried up.He led them through the deep sea as if it were a desert.
10. He saved them from those who hated them.He saved them from their enemies.
11. And the water covered their enemies.Not one of them escaped.
12. Then the people believed what the Lord said.They sang praises to him.
13. But they quickly forgot what he had done.They did not wait for his advice.