Psalms 106

¹Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.

²Who can describe the mighty acts of the LORD or fully proclaim His praise?

³Blessed are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times.

⁴Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,

⁵that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, and give glory with Your inheritance.

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

⁷Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.

⁸Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.

⁹He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.

¹⁰He saved them from the hand that hated them; He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹The waters covered their foes; not one of them remained.

¹²Then they believed His promises and sang His praise.

¹³Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.

¹⁴They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.

¹⁵So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them.

¹⁶In the camp they envied Moses, as well as Aaron, the holy one of the LORD.

¹⁷The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.

¹⁸Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked.

¹⁹At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.

²⁰They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.

²¹They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,

²²wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.

²³So 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.

²⁴They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.

²⁵They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

²⁶So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,

²⁷to disperse their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

²⁸They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.

²⁹So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

³⁰But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.

³¹It was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.

³²At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them.

³³For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,

³⁵but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.

³⁶They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.

³⁷They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

³⁸They 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.

³⁹They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

⁴⁰So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.

⁴¹He delivered them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴²Their enemies oppressed them and subdued them under their hand.

⁴³Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.

⁴⁴Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.

⁴⁵And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

⁴⁶He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.

⁴⁷Save 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.

⁴⁸Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Hallelujah!