Psalms 106
1 Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his faithful love endures forever.
2 Who can tell of the LORD’s mighty deeds, or proclaim all his praise?
3 Happy are those who uphold justice, who practice what is right at all times.
4 Remember me, LORD, when you show favor to your people; come to me with your salvation.
5 Then I will see the well-being of your chosen ones, rejoice in the joy of your nation, and take pride alongside your inheritance.
6 We have sinned, like our ancestors; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
7 Our ancestors in Egypt did not understand your wonders. They did not remember your abundant faithful love, and they rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.
8 Yet he saved them for the sake of his name, to make his power known.
9 He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; he led them through the depths as through a desert.
10 He saved them from the hands of those who hated them and rescued them from the enemy’s hands.
11 The waters covered their adversaries; not one of them was left.
12 Then they believed his words and sang his praise.
13 But they quickly forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.
14 They craved intensely in the wilderness and put God to the test in the wasteland.
15 He gave them what they asked for, but sent wasting sickness into their lives.
16 In the camp they grew jealous of Moses and Aaron, the one consecrated to the LORD.
17 The earth opened and swallowed Dathan; it covered Abiram’s community.
18 Fire blazed among their community; flames consumed the wicked.
19 They made a calf at Horeb and bowed down before a metal image.
20 They exchanged their glory for the image of an ox that eats grass.
21 They forgot God, their savior, who had done great things in Egypt,
22 wonders in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
23 He said he would destroy them, but Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him to turn his anger away from destroying them.
24 They rejected the desirable land; they did not believe his word.
25 They grumbled in their tents; they did not listen to the LORD’s voice.
26 So he raised his hand against them, to bring them down in the wilderness,
27 and to bring their descendants down among the nations and scatter them through the lands.
28 They joined themselves to Baal-Peor and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
29 They provoked his anger by what they did, and a plague broke out among them.
30 Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague stopped.
31 This was credited to him as righteousness, from generation to generation, forever.
32 They angered him at the waters of Meribah, and Moses suffered because of them,
33 for they embittered his spirit, and he spoke rashly.
34 They did not destroy the peoples, as the LORD had told them.
35 They mingled with the nations and learned their practices.
36 They served their idols, and these became a trap for them.
37 They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.
38 They shed innocent blood—the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was defiled with blood.
39 They made themselves impure by what they did and prostituted themselves through their deeds.
40 Then the LORD’s anger burned against his people, and he detested his inheritance.
41 He handed them over to the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.
42 Their enemies oppressed them, and they bowed under their power.
43 Many times he rescued them, but they rebelled against his plan and sank deeper in their guilt.
44 He saw their distress when he heard their cry.
45 He remembered his covenant with them and relented, because of his abundant faithful love.
46 He made all those who had taken them captive show them compassion.
47 Save us, LORD our God, and gather us from among the nations, so we may give thanks to your holy name and take pride in your praise.
48 Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen.” Hallelujah!
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