Psalms 106
106
1Praise the Lord!
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good!
His faithful love endures forever.
2Who can list the glorious miracles of the Lord?
Who can ever praise him enough?
3There is joy for those who deal justly with others
and always do what is right.
4Remember me, Lord, when you show favor to your people;
come near and rescue me.
5Let me share in the prosperity of your chosen ones.
Let me rejoice in the joy of your people;
let me praise you with those who are your heritage.
6Like our ancestors, we have sinned.
We have done wrong! We have acted wickedly!
7Our ancestors in Egypt
were not impressed by the Lord’s miraculous deeds.
They soon forgot his many acts of kindness to them.
Instead, they rebelled against him at the Red Sea.#106:7 Hebrew at the sea, the sea of reeds.
8Even so, he saved them—
to defend the honor of his name
and to demonstrate his mighty power.
9He commanded the Red Sea#106:9 Hebrew sea of reeds; also in 106:22. to dry up.
He led Israel across the sea as if it were a desert.
10So he rescued them from their enemies
and redeemed them from their foes.
11Then the water returned and covered their enemies;
not one of them survived.
12Then his people believed his promises.
Then they sang his praise.
13Yet how quickly they forgot what he had done!
They wouldn’t wait for his counsel!
14In the wilderness their desires ran wild,
testing God’s patience in that dry wasteland.
15So he gave them what they asked for,
but he sent a plague along with it.
16The people in the camp were jealous of Moses
and envious of Aaron, the Lord’s holy priest.
17Because of this, the earth opened up;
it swallowed Dathan
and buried Abiram and the other rebels.
18Fire fell upon their followers;
a flame consumed the wicked.
19The people made a calf at Mount Sinai#106:19 Hebrew at Horeb, another name for Sinai.;
they bowed before an image made of gold.
20They traded their glorious God
for a statue of a grass-eating bull.
21They forgot God, their savior,
who had done such great things in Egypt—
22such wonderful things in the land of Ham,
such awesome deeds at the Red Sea.
23So he declared he would destroy them.
But Moses, his chosen one, stepped between the Lord and the people.
He begged him to turn from his anger and not destroy them.
24The people refused to enter the pleasant land,
for they wouldn’t believe his promise to care for them.
25Instead, they grumbled in their tents
and refused to obey the Lord.
26Therefore, he solemnly swore
that he would kill them in the wilderness,
27that he would scatter their descendants#106:27 As in Syriac version; Hebrew reads he would cause their descendants to fall. among the nations,
exiling them to distant lands.
28Then our ancestors joined in the worship of Baal at Peor;
they even ate sacrifices offered to the dead!
29They angered the Lord with all these things,
so a plague broke out among them.
30But Phinehas had the courage to intervene,
and the plague was stopped.
31So he has been regarded as a righteous man
ever since that time.
32At Meribah, too, they angered the Lord,
causing Moses serious trouble.
33They made Moses angry,#106:33 Hebrew They embittered his spirit.
and he spoke foolishly.
34Israel failed to destroy the nations in the land,
as the Lord had commanded them.
35Instead, they mingled among the pagans
and adopted their evil customs.
36They worshiped their idols,
which led to their downfall.
37They even sacrificed their sons
and their daughters to the demons.
38They shed innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters.
By sacrificing them to the idols of Canaan,
they polluted the land with murder.
39They defiled themselves by their evil deeds,
and their love of idols was adultery in the Lord’s sight.
40That is why the Lord’s anger burned against his people,
and he abhorred his own special possession.
41He handed them over to pagan nations,
and they were ruled by those who hated them.
42Their enemies crushed them
and brought them under their cruel power.
43Again and again he rescued them,
but they chose to rebel against him,
and they were finally destroyed by their sin.
44Even so, he pitied them in their distress
and listened to their cries.
45He remembered his covenant with them
and relented because of his unfailing love.
46He even caused their captors
to treat them with kindness.
47Save us, O Lord our God!
Gather us back from among the nations,
so we can thank your holy name
and rejoice and praise you.
48Praise the Lord, the God of Israel,
who lives from everlasting to everlasting!
Let all the people say, “Amen!”
Praise the Lord!
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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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