Psalms106

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

² Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord? Who can declare all His praise?

³ Blessed are those who keep justice, And he who does righteousness at all times!

⁴ Remember me, O Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people. Oh, visit me with Your salvation,

⁵ That I may see the benefit of Your chosen ones, That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, That I may glory with Your inheritance.

⁶ We have sinned with our fathers, We have committed iniquity, We have done wickedly.

⁷ Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders; They did not remember the multitude of Your mercies, But rebelled by the sea—the Red Sea.

⁸ Nevertheless He saved them for His name’s sake, That He might make His mighty power known.

⁹ He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it dried up; So He led them through the depths, As through the wilderness.

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

¹¹ The waters covered their enemies; There was not one of them left.

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

¹³ They soon forgot His works; They did not wait for His counsel,

¹⁴ But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, And tested God in the desert.

¹⁵ And He gave them their request, But sent leanness into their soul.

¹⁶ When they envied Moses in the camp, And Aaron the saint of the Lord,

¹⁷ The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan, And covered the faction of Abiram.

¹⁸ A fire was kindled in their company; The flame burned up the wicked.

¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb, And worshiped the molded image.

²⁰ Thus they changed their glory Into the image of an ox that eats grass.

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

²² Wondrous works in the land of Ham, Awesome things by the Red Sea.

²³ Therefore He said that He would destroy them, Had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach, To turn away His wrath, lest He destroy them.

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

²⁵ But complained in their tents, And did not heed the voice of the Lord.

²⁶ Therefore He raised His hand in an oath against them, To overthrow them in the wilderness,

²⁷ To overthrow their descendants among the nations, And to scatter them in the lands.

²⁸ They joined themselves also to Baal of Peor, And ate sacrifices made to the dead.

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

³⁰ Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, And the plague was stopped.

³¹ And that was accounted to him for righteousness To all generations forevermore.

³² They angered Him also at the waters of strife, So that it went ill with Moses on account of them;

³³ Because they rebelled against His Spirit, So that he spoke rashly with his lips.

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

³⁵ But they mingled with the Gentiles And learned their works;

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

³⁷ They even sacrificed their sons And their daughters to demons,

³⁸ And 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 Thus they were defiled by their own works, And played the harlot by their own deeds.

⁴⁰ Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against His people, So that He abhorred His own inheritance.

⁴¹ And He gave them into the hand of the Gentiles, And those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴² Their enemies also oppressed them, And they were brought into subjection under their hand.

⁴³ Many times He delivered them; But they rebelled in their counsel, And were brought low for their iniquity.

⁴⁴ Nevertheless He regarded their affliction, When He heard their cry;

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

⁴⁶ He also made them to be pitied By all those who carried them away captive.

⁴⁷ Save us, O Lord our God, And gather us from among the Gentiles, To give thanks to Your holy name, To triumph in Your praise.

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