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