Psalms 106
106
1Praise the Lord!
Give thanks to the Lord because he is good!
His faithful love will last forever!
2No one can describe how great the Lord really is.
No one can praise him enough.
3Those who obey his commands are happy.
They do good things all the time.
4Lord, remember me when you show kindness to your people.
Remember to save me too!
5Let me share in the good things
that you do for your chosen people.
Let me rejoice with your nation.
Let me join with your people in praise.
6We sinned just as our ancestors did.
We were wrong; we did bad things!
7Lord, our ancestors learned nothing
from the miracles you did in Egypt.
They forgot your kindness at the Red Sea
and rebelled against you.
8But the Lord saved our ancestors for the honor of his name.
He saved them to show his great power.
9He gave the command, and the Red Sea became dry.
He led them through the deep sea on land as dry as the desert.
10He saved our ancestors
and rescued them from their enemies.
11He covered their enemies with the sea.
Not one of them escaped!
12Then our ancestors believed what he had said.
They sang praises to him.
13But they quickly forgot about what he did.
They did not listen to his advice.
14They became hungry in the desert,
and they tested him in the wilderness.
15He gave them what they asked for,
but he also gave them a terrible disease.
16The people became jealous of Moses.
They became jealous of Aaron, the Lord’s holy priest.
17The ground opened up and swallowed Dathan.
Then the ground closed up and covered Abiram’s group.
18Then a fire burned that mob of people.
It burned those wicked people.
19The people made a golden calf at Mount Horeb.
They worshiped a statue!
20They traded their glorious God
for a statue of a grass-eating bull!
21They forgot all about God, the one who saved them,
the one who did the miracles in Egypt.
22He did amazing things there in Ham’s country#106:22 Ham’s country Or “Egypt.” The Egyptians were Ham’s descendants. See Gen. 10:6-20.!
He did awesome things at the Red Sea!
23God wanted to destroy those people,
but Moses, the leader he chose, stood in the way.
God was very angry, but Moses begged him to stop,
so God did not destroy the people.#106:23 Or “God said he would destroy them. But Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach and repelled his anger from destroying.” This compares Moses to a soldier standing at a break in a wall defending the city against enemy soldiers.
24But then they refused to go into the wonderful land of Canaan.
They did not believe that God would help them defeat the people there.
25Our ancestors complained in their tents
and refused to obey the Lord.
26So he swore that they would die
in the desert.
27He promised to scatter them among the nations
and to let other people defeat their descendants.
28At Baal Peor they joined in worshiping Baal
and ate sacrifices to honor the dead.#106:28 the dead This might refer to “lifeless gods” or to dead friends or relatives honored with meals eaten at their graves.
29The Lord became angry with his people,
so he made them sick.
30But Phinehas prayed#106:30 prayed Or “intervened,” or “judged.” Phinehas not only prayed to God, but he also did something to stop the people from doing these sins. See Num. 25:1-16. to God,
and God stopped the sickness.
31He considered what Phinehas did a good work,
and it will be remembered forever and ever.
32At Meribah the people made the Lord angry
and created trouble for Moses.
33They upset Moses,
and he spoke without stopping to think.
34The Lord told the people to destroy the other nations living in Canaan.
But the Israelites did not obey him.
35They mixed with the other people
and did what those people were doing.
36They began worshiping the false gods those people worshiped.
And their idols became a trap.
37They even offered their own children
as sacrifices to demons.
38They killed their innocent sons and daughters
and offered them to the false gods of Canaan.
So the land was polluted with the sin of murder.
39They were unfaithful to him,
and they became dirty with the sins of other nations.
40So the Lord became angry with his people.
He rejected those who belonged to him.
41He gave his people to other nations
and let their enemies rule over them.
42Their enemies controlled them
and made life hard for them.
43He saved his people many times,
but they turned against him and did what they wanted to do.
His people did many bad things.
44But whenever they were in trouble,
he listened to their prayers.
45He always remembered his agreement,
and because of his faithful love, he comforted them.
46Other nations took them as prisoners,
but the Lord caused them to be kind to his people.
47Lord our God, save us!
Bring us back together from those nations.
Then we will give thanks to your holy name
and joyfully praise you.
48Praise the Lord, the God of Israel!
He always was and will always be worthy of praise.
Let all the people say, “Amen!”
Praise the Lord!
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Psalms 106
106
1Praise ye the LORD.
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good:
For his mercy endureth for ever.
2Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD,
Or shew forth all his praise?
3Blessed are they that keep judgement,
And he that doeth righteousness at all times.
4Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people;
O visit me with thy salvation:
5That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen,
That I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation,
That I may glory with thine inheritance.
6We have sinned with our fathers,
We have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
7Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt;
They remembered not the multitude of thy mercies;
But were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
8Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake,
That he might make his mighty power to be known.
9He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up:
So he led them through the depths, as through a wilderness.
10And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them,
And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
11And the waters covered their adversaries:
There was not one of them left.
12Then believed they his words;
They sang his praise.
13They soon forgat his works;
They waited not for his counsel:
14But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,
And tempted God in the desert.
15And he gave them their request;
But sent leanness into their soul.
16They envied Moses also in the camp,
And Aaron the saint of the LORD.
17The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
And covered the company of Abiram.
18And a fire was kindled in their company;
The flame burned up the wicked.
19They made a calf in Horeb,
And worshipped a molten image.
20Thus they changed their glory
For the likeness of an ox that eateth grass.
21They forgat God their saviour,
Which had done great things in Egypt;
22Wondrous works in the land of Ham,
And terrible things by the Red Sea.
23Therefore he said that he would destroy them,
Had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach,
To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
24Yea, they despised the pleasant land,
They believed not his word;
25But murmured in their tents,
And hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.
26Therefore he lifted up his hand unto them,
That he would overthrow them in the wilderness:
27And that he would overthrow their seed among the nations,
And scatter them in the lands.
28They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor,
And ate the sacrifices of the dead.
29Thus they provoked him to anger with their doings;
And the plague brake in upon them.
30Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgement:
And so the plague was stayed.
31And that was counted unto him for righteousness,
Unto all generations for evermore.
32They angered him also at the waters of Meribah,
So that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:
33Because they were rebellious against his spirit,
And he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
34They did not destroy the peoples,
As the LORD commanded them;
35But mingled themselves with the nations,
And learned their works:
36And they served their idols;
Which became a snare unto them:
37Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,
38And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters,
Whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan;
And the land was polluted with blood.
39Thus were they defiled with their works,
And went a whoring in their doings.
40Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people,
And he abhorred his inheritance.
41And he gave them into the hand of the nations;
And they that hated them ruled over them.
42Their enemies also oppressed them,
And they were brought into subjection under their hand.
43Many times did he deliver them;
But they were rebellious in their counsel,
And were brought low in their iniquity.
44Nevertheless he regarded their distress,
When he heard their cry:
45And he remembered for them his covenant,
And repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
46He made them also to be pitied
Of all those that carried them captives.
47Save us, O LORD our God,
And gather us from among the nations,
To give thanks unto thy holy name,
And to triumph in thy praise.
48Blessed be the LORD, the God or Israel,
From everlasting even to everlasting.
And let all the people say, Amen.
Praise ye the LORD.
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