Psalms106

¹ Praise the Lord! Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; For His mercy is everlasting.

² Who can speak of the mighty deeds of the Lord, Or can proclaim all His praise?

³ How blessed are those who maintain justice, Who practice righteousness at all times!

⁴ Remember me, Lord, in Your favor toward Your people. Visit me with Your salvation,

⁵ So that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, That I may rejoice in the joy of Your nation, That I may boast with Your inheritance.

⁶ We have sinned like our fathers, We have gone astray, we have behaved wickedly.

⁷ Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders; They did not remember Your abundant kindnesses, But rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.

⁸ Nevertheless He saved them for the sake of His name, So that He might make His power known.

⁹ So He rebuked the Red Sea and it dried up, And He led them through the mighty waters, as through the wilderness.

¹⁰ So He saved them from the hand of one who hated them, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹ The waters covered their adversaries; Not one of them was left.

¹² Then they believed His words; They sang His praise.

¹³ They quickly forgot His works; They did not wait for His plan,

¹⁴ But became lustfully greedy in the wilderness, And put God to the test in the desert.

¹⁵ So He gave them their request, But sent a wasting disease among them.

¹⁶ When they became envious of Moses in the camp, And of Aaron, the holy one of the Lord,

¹⁷ The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, And engulfed the company of Abiram.

¹⁸ And a fire blazed up in their company; The flame consumed the wicked.

¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb, And worshiped a cast metal image.

²⁰ So they exchanged their glory For the image of an ox that eats grass.

²¹ They forgot God their Savior, Who had done great things in Egypt,

²² Wonders in the land of Ham, And awesome things by the Red Sea.

²³ Therefore He said that He would destroy them, If Moses, His chosen one, had not stood in the gap before Him, To turn away His wrath from destroying them.

²⁴ Then they rejected the pleasant land; They did not believe His word,

²⁵ But grumbled in their tents; They did not listen to the voice of the Lord.

²⁶ Therefore He swore to them That He would have them fall in the wilderness,

²⁷ And that He would bring down their descendants among the nations, And scatter them in the lands.

²⁸ They also followed Baal-peor, And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

²⁹ So they provoked Him to anger with their deeds, And a plague broke out among them.

³⁰ Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, And so the plague was brought to a halt.

³¹ And it was credited to him as righteousness, To all generations forever.

³² They also provoked Him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, So that it went badly for Moses on their account.

³³ Because they were rebellious against His Spirit, He spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴ They did not destroy the peoples, As the Lord had commanded them,

³⁵ But they got involved with the nations And learned their practices,

³⁶ And served their idols, Which became a snare to them.

³⁷ They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons,

³⁸ And shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons and their daughters Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was defiled with the blood.

³⁹ So they became unclean in their practices, And were unfaithful in their deeds.

⁴⁰ Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against His people, And He loathed His inheritance.

⁴¹ So He handed them over to the nations, And those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴² Their enemies also oppressed them, And they were subdued under their power.

⁴³ Many times He would rescue them; They, however, were rebellious in their plan, And they sank down into their guilt.

⁴⁴ Nevertheless He looked at their distress When He heard their cry;

⁴⁵ And He remembered His covenant for their sake, And relented according to the greatness of His mercy.

⁴⁶ He also made them objects of compassion In the presence of all their captors.

⁴⁷ Save us, Lord our God, And gather us from the nations, To give thanks to Your holy name And glory in Your praise.

⁴⁸ Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, From everlasting to everlasting. And all the people shall say, “Amen.” Praise the Lord!