Psalms 106
106
Israel’s Unfaithfulness to God
1Hallelujah!
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
his faithful love endures forever. # 106:1 1Ch 16:34,41; Ps 100:5
2Who can declare the Lord’s mighty acts
or proclaim all the praise due him? # 106:2 Ps 145:4,12; 150:2
3How happy are those who uphold justice,
who practice righteousness at all times. # 106:3 Ps 15:2
4Remember me, Lord,
when you show favor to your people. # 106:4 Ps 119:132
Come to me with your salvation
5so that I may enjoy the prosperity
of your chosen ones,
rejoice in the joy of your nation,
and boast about your heritage. # 106:5 Dt 32:9; Ps 105:6,43
6Both we and our ancestors have sinned;
we have done wrong and have acted wickedly. # 106:6 Lv 26:40; Jr 3:25; 14:20
7Our ancestors in Egypt did not grasp
the significance of your wondrous works
or remember your many acts of faithful love;
instead, they rebelled by the sea #— #the Red Sea. # 106:7 Ex 14:10–12; Ps 78:17
8Yet he saved them for his name’s sake,
to make his power known. # 106:8 Ex 9:16; Ezk 20:9
9He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;
he led them through the depths as through a desert. # 106:9 Ps 18:15; 104:7; Is 63:11–13
10He saved them from the power of the adversary;
he redeemed them from the power of the enemy. # 106:10 Ex 14:30; Ps 107:2
11Water covered their foes;
not one of them remained. # 106:11 Ex 14:27–28; 15:5; Ps 78:53
12Then they believed his promises
and sang his praise. # 106:12 Ex 14:31; 15:1–21; Ps 105:43
13They soon forgot his works
and would not wait for his counsel. # 106:13 Ex 15:24; Ps 78:11; 107:11
14They were seized with craving in the wilderness
and tested God in the desert. # 106:14 Nm 11:4; Ps 78:18
15He gave them what they asked for,
but sent a wasting disease among them. # 106:15 Nm 11:31; Ps 78:29
16In the camp they were envious of Moses
and of Aaron, the Lord’s holy one. # 106:16 Nm 16:1–3
17The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;
it covered the assembly of Abiram. # 106:17 Nm 16:31–32; Dt 11:6
18Fire blazed throughout their assembly;
flames consumed the wicked. # 106:18 Nm 16:35
19At Horeb they made a calf
and worshiped the cast metal image. # 106:19 Ex 32:4; Dt 9:8; Ac 7:41
20They exchanged their glory # 106:20 Alt Hb tradition reads his glory, or my glory,# 106:20 = God
for the image of a grass-eating ox. # 106:20 Jr 2:11; Rm 1:23
21They forgot God their Savior,
who did great things in Egypt, # 106:21 Dt 10:21; Ps 78:11
22wondrous works in the land of Ham, # 106:22 = Egypt
awe-inspiring acts at the Red Sea. # 106:22 Ps 105:27
23So he said he would have destroyed them —
if Moses his chosen one
had not stood before him in the breach
to turn his wrath away from destroying them. # 106:23 Ex 32:10; Dt 9:14; Ezk 20:8
24They despised the pleasant land
and did not believe his promise. # 106:24 Nm 14:31; Dt 9:23; Heb 3:19
25They grumbled in their tents
and did not listen to the Lord. # 106:25 Nm 14:2; Dt 1:27
26So he raised his hand against them with an oath
that he would make them fall in the desert # 106:26 Nm 14:28–35; Ezk 20:15; Heb 3:11
27and would disperse their descendants # 106:27 Syr; MT reads would make their descendants fall
among the nations,
scattering them throughout the lands. # 106:27 Lv 26:33; Dt 4:27; Ps 44:11
28They aligned themselves with Baal of Peor
and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods. # 106:28 Lit sacrifices for dead ones,# 106:28 Nm 25:3; Dt 4:3; Hs 9:10
29They angered the Lord with their deeds,
and a plague broke out against them. # 106:29 Nm 25:4
30But Phinehas stood up and intervened,
and the plague was stopped. # 106:30 Nm 25:7–8
31It was credited to him as righteousness
throughout all generations to come. # 106:31 Gn 15:6; Nm 25:10–13
32They angered the Lord at the Waters of Meribah,
and Moses suffered # 106:32 Lit and it was evil for Moses because of them, # 106:32 Nm 20:2–13; Ps 81:7
33for they embittered his spirit, # 106:33 Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr, Jer; other Hb mss read they rebelled against his Spirit
and he spoke rashly with his lips. # 106:33 Ps 78:40; Is 63:10
34They did not destroy the peoples
as the Lord had commanded them # 106:34 Dt 7:2,16; Jdg 1:21,27–36
35but mingled with the nations
and adopted their ways. # 106:35 Jdg 3:5–6
36They served their idols,
which became a snare to them. # 106:36 Dt 7:16; Jdg 2:12
37They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons. # 106:37 Lv 17:7; Dt 32:17
38They shed innocent blood —
the blood of their sons and daughters
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
so the land became polluted with blood. # 106:38 Nm 35:33; Is 24:5
39They defiled themselves by their actions
and prostituted themselves by their deeds. # 106:39 Lv 18:24; Ezk 20:18,30–31
40Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against his people,
and he abhorred his own inheritance. # 106:40 Dt 32:19; Ps 78:59
41He handed them over to the nations;
those who hated them ruled over them. # 106:41 Jdg 2:14; Neh 9:27
42Their enemies oppressed them,
and they were subdued under their power. # 106:42 Jdg 4:3; 10:12
43He rescued them many times,
but they continued to rebel deliberately
and were beaten down by their iniquity. # 106:43 Jdg 2:16–18; Ps 81:12
44When he heard their cry,
he took note of their distress, # 106:44 Jdg 3:3; 6:7; 10:10
45remembered his covenant with them,
and relented according to the abundance
of his faithful love. # 106:45 Lv 26:42; Ps 105:8
46He caused them to be pitied
before all their captors. # 106:46 1Kg 8:50; 2Ch 30:9; Ezr 9:9
47Save us, Lord our God,
and gather us from the nations,
so that we may give thanks to your holy name
and rejoice in your praise. # 106:47 Ps 107:3; 147:2
48Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting. # 106:48 Ps 41:13; 72:18; 89:52
Let all the people say, “Amen! ”
Hallelujah! # 106:47–48 1Ch 16:35–36
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