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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Psalms 106
106
The LORD's Goodness to his People
1 #
1 Chr 16.34; 2 Chr 5.13; 7.3; Ezra 3.11; Ps 100.5; 107.1; 118.1; 136.1; Jer 33.11 Praise the LORD!
Give thanks to the LORD, because he is good;
his love is eternal.
2Who can tell all the great things he has done?
Who can praise him enough?
3Happy are those who obey his commands,
who always do what is right.
4Remember me, LORD, when you help your people;
include me when you save them.
5Let me see the prosperity of your people
and share in the happiness of your nation,
in the glad pride of those who belong to you.
6We have sinned as our ancestors did;
we have been wicked and evil.
7 #
Ex 14.10–12
Our ancestors in Egypt did not understand God's wonderful acts;
they forgot the many times he showed them his love,
and they rebelled against the Almighty#106.7 Probable text the Almighty; Hebrew the sea. at the Red Sea.
8But he saved them, as he had promised,
in order to show his great power.
9 #
Ex 14.21–31
He gave a command to the Red Sea,
and it dried up;
he led his people across on dry land.
10He saved them from those who hated them;
he rescued them from their enemies.
11But the water drowned their enemies;
not one of them was left.
12 #
Ex 15.1–21
Then his people believed his promises
and sang praises to him.
13But they quickly forgot what he had done
and acted without waiting for his advice.
14 #
Num 11.4–34
They were filled with craving in the desert
and put God to the test;
15so he gave them what they asked for,
but also sent a terrible disease among them.
16 #
Num 16.1–35
There in the desert they were jealous of Moses
and of Aaron, the LORD's holy servant.
17Then the earth opened up and swallowed Dathan
and buried Abiram and his family;
18fire came down on their followers
and burnt up those wicked people.
19 #
Ex 32.1–14
They made a gold bull calf at Sinai
and worshipped that idol;
20they exchanged the glory of God
for the image of an animal that eats grass.
21They forgot the God who had saved them
by his mighty acts in Egypt.
22What wonderful things he did there!
What amazing things at the Red Sea!
23When God said that he would destroy his people,
his chosen servant, Moses, stood up against God
and prevented his anger from destroying them.
24 #
Num 14.1–35
Then they rejected the pleasant land,
because they did not believe God's promise.
25They stayed in their tents and grumbled
and would not listen to the LORD.
26So he gave them a solemn warning
that he would make them die in the desert
27 #
Lev 26.33
and scatter their descendants among the heathen,
letting them die in foreign countries.
28 #
Num 25.1–13
Then at Peor, God's people joined in the worship of Baal,
and ate sacrifices offered to dead gods.
29They stirred up the LORD's anger by their actions,
and a terrible disease broke out among them.
30But Phinehas stood up and punished the guilty,
and the plague was stopped.
31This has been remembered in his favour ever since
and will be for all time to come.
32 #
Num 20.2–13
At the springs of Meribah the people made the LORD angry,
and Moses was in trouble on their account.
33They made him so bitter
that he spoke without stopping to think.
34 #
Judg 2.1–3; 3.5–6 They did not kill the heathen,
as the LORD had commanded them to do,
35but they intermarried with them
and adopted their pagan ways.
36God's people worshipped idols,
and this caused their destruction.
37 #
2 Kgs 17.17
They offered their own sons and daughters
as sacrifices to the idols of Canaan.
38 #
Num 35.33
They killed those innocent children,
and the land was defiled by those murders.
39They made themselves impure by their actions
and were unfaithful to God.
40 #
Judg 2.14–18
So the LORD was angry with his people;
he was disgusted with them.
41He abandoned them to the power of the heathen,
and their enemies ruled over them.
42They were oppressed by their enemies
and were in complete subjection to them.
43Many times the LORD rescued his people,
but they chose to rebel against him
and sank deeper into sin.
44Yet the LORD heard them when they cried out,
and he took notice of their distress.
45For their sake he remembered his covenant,
and because of his great love he relented.
46He made all their oppressors
feel sorry for them.
47 #
1 Chr 16.35–36
Save us, O LORD our God,
and bring us back from among the nations,
so that we may be thankful
and praise your holy name.
48Praise the LORD, the God of Israel;
praise him now and for ever!
Let everyone say, “Amen!”
Praise the LORD!
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