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