Psalms 106
106
Joy in Forgiveness of Israel’s Sins
1Praise the Lord!
#1 Chr. 16:34, 41Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!
For His mercy endures forever.
2Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord?
Who can declare all His praise?
3Blessed are those who keep justice,
And he who #Ps. 15:2does righteousness at #(Gal. 6:9)all times!
4#Ps. 119:132Remember me, O Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people.
Oh, visit me with Your salvation,
5That 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#1 Kin. 8:47; (Ezra 9:7; Neh. 1:7; Jer. 3:25; Dan. 9:5)We have sinned with our fathers,
We have committed iniquity,
We have done wickedly.
7Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders;
They did not remember the multitude of Your mercies,
#Ex. 14:11, 12But rebelled by the sea—the Red Sea.
8Nevertheless He saved them for His name’s sake,
#Ex. 9:16That He might make His mighty power known.
9#Ex. 14:21; Ps. 18:15; Is. 51:10; Nah. 1:4He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it dried up;
So #Is. 63:11–13He led them through the depths,
As through the wilderness.
10He #Ex. 14:30saved them from the hand of him who hated them,
And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
11#Ex. 14:27, 28; 15:5The waters covered their enemies;
There was not one of them left.
12#Ex. 15:1–21Then they believed His words;
They sang His praise.
13#Ex. 15:24; 16:2; 17:2They soon forgot His works;
They did not wait for His counsel,
14#Num. 11:4; 1 Cor. 10:6But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,
And tested God in the desert.
15#Num. 11:31And He gave them their request,
But #Is. 10:16sent leanness into their soul.
16When #Num. 16:1–3they envied Moses in the camp,
And Aaron the saint of the Lord,
17#Num. 16:31, 32; Deut. 11:6The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan,
And covered the faction of Abiram.
18#Num. 16:35, 46A fire was kindled in their company;
The flame burned up the wicked.
19#Ex. 32:1–4; Deut. 9:8; Acts 7:41They made a calf in Horeb,
And worshiped the molded image.
20Thus #Jer. 2:11; Rom. 1:23they changed their glory
Into the image of an ox that eats grass.
21They forgot God their Savior,
Who had done great things in Egypt,
22Wondrous works in the land of Ham,
Awesome things by the Red Sea.
23#Ex. 32:10; Deut. 9:19Therefore He said that He would destroy them,
Had not Moses His chosen one #Ezek. 22:30stood before Him in the breach,
To turn away His wrath, lest He destroy them.
24Then they despised #Deut. 8:7; Jer. 3:19; Ezek. 20:6the pleasant land;
They #Deut. 1:32; 9:23; (Heb. 3:18, 19)did not believe His word,
25#Num. 14:2, 27; Deut. 1:27But complained in their tents,
And did not heed the voice of the Lord.
26#Ezek. 20:15, 16; (Heb. 3:11, 18)Therefore He raised His hand in an oath against them,
#Num. 14:28–30To overthrow them in the wilderness,
27#Lev. 26:33; Ezek. 20:23To overthrow their descendants among the nations,
And to scatter them in the lands.
28#Num. 25:3; Deut. 4:3; Hos. 9:10They joined themselves also to Baal of Peor,
And ate sacrifices made to the dead.
29Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds,
And the plague broke out among them.
30#Num. 25:7, 8Then Phinehas stood up and intervened,
And the plague was stopped.
31And that was accounted to him #Gen. 15:6; Num. 25:11–13for righteousness
To all generations forevermore.
32#Num. 20:3–13; Ps. 81:7They angered Him also at the waters of strife,
#Deut. 1:37; 3:26So that it went ill with Moses on account of them;
33#Num. 20:3, 10Because they rebelled against His Spirit,
So that he spoke rashly with his lips.
34#Judg. 1:21They did not destroy the peoples,
#(Deut. 7:2, 16); Judg. 2:2Concerning whom the Lord had commanded them,
35#Judg. 3:5, 6But they mingled with the Gentiles
And learned their works;
36#Judg. 2:12They served their idols,
#Deut. 7:16Which became a snare to them.
37#(Deut. 12:31; 32:17, 18); 2 Kin. 16:3; 17:17; Ezek. 16:20, 21; (1 Cor. 10:20)They even sacrificed their sons
And their daughters to #(Lev. 17:7)demons,
38And shed innocent blood,
The blood of their sons and daughters,
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
And #(Num. 35:33; Is. 24:5; Jer. 3:1, 2)the land was polluted with blood.
39Thus they were #(Lev. 18:24); Ezek. 20:18defiled by their own works,
And #(Lev. 17:7; Num. 15:39); Judg. 2:17; Hos. 4:12played the harlot by their own deeds.
40Therefore #Judg. 2:14; Ps. 78:59the wrath of the Lord was kindled against His people,
So that He abhorred #(Deut. 9:29; 32:9)His own inheritance.
41And #Judg. 2:14; (Neh. 9:27)He gave them into the hand of the Gentiles,
And those who hated them ruled over them.
42Their enemies also oppressed them,
And they were brought into subjection under their hand.
43#Judg. 2:16; (Neh. 9:27)Many times He delivered them;
But they rebelled in their counsel,
And were brought low for their iniquity.
44Nevertheless He regarded their affliction,
When #Judg. 3:9; 6:7; 10:10He heard their cry;
45#(Lev. 26:41, 42)And for their sake He remembered His covenant,
And #Judg. 2:18relented #Ps. 69:16according to the multitude of His mercies.
46#1 Kin. 8:50; (2 Chr. 30:9); Ezra 9:9; Neh. 1:11; Jer. 42:12He also made them to be pitied
By all those who carried them away captive.
47#1 Chr. 16:35, 36Save 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#Ps. 41:13Blessed be the Lord God of Israel
From everlasting to everlasting!
And let all the people say, “Amen!”
Praise the Lord!
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