Psalms 106

¹Psalms 106:1. Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.²Psalms 106:2. Who can describe the mighty acts of the LORD or fully proclaim His praise?³Psalms 106:3. Blessed are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times.⁴Psalms 106:4. Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,⁵Psalms 106:5. that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, and give glory with Your inheritance.⁶Psalms 106:6. We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.⁷Psalms 106:7. Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.⁸Psalms 106:8. Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.⁹Psalms 106:9. He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.¹⁰Psalms 106:10. He saved them from the hand that hated them; He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.¹¹Psalms 106:11. The waters covered their foes; not one of them remained.¹²Psalms 106:12. Then they believed His promises and sang His praise.¹³Psalms 106:13. Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.¹⁴Psalms 106:14. They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.¹⁵Psalms 106:15. So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them.¹⁶Psalms 106:16. In the camp they envied Moses, as well as Aaron, the holy one of the LORD.¹⁷Psalms 106:17. The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.¹⁸Psalms 106:18. Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked.¹⁹Psalms 106:19. At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.²⁰Psalms 106:20. They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.²¹Psalms 106:21. They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,²²Psalms 106:22. wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.²³Psalms 106:23. So He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.²⁴Psalms 106:24. They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.²⁵Psalms 106:25. They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.²⁶Psalms 106:26. So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,²⁷Psalms 106:27. to disperse their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.²⁸Psalms 106:28. They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.²⁹Psalms 106:29. So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.³⁰Psalms 106:30. But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.³¹Psalms 106:31. It was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.³²Psalms 106:32. At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them.³³Psalms 106:33. For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.³⁴Psalms 106:34. They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,³⁵Psalms 106:35. but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.³⁶Psalms 106:36. They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.³⁷Psalms 106:37. They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.³⁸Psalms 106:38. They shed innocent blood—the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.³⁹Psalms 106:39. They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.⁴⁰Psalms 106:40. So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.⁴¹Psalms 106:41. He delivered them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.⁴²Psalms 106:42. Their enemies oppressed them and subdued them under their hand.⁴³Psalms 106:43. Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.⁴⁴Psalms 106:44. Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.⁴⁵Psalms 106:45. And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.⁴⁶Psalms 106:46. He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.⁴⁷Psalms 106:47. Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.⁴⁸Psalms 106:48. Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Hallelujah!