Psalms Chapter 106 of 150 about 3 min read

Psalm 106

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Verse 1. Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.

Verse 2. Who can describe the mighty acts of the LORD or fully proclaim His praise?

Verse 3. Blessed are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times.

Verse 4. Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,

Verse 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.

Verse 6. We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.

Verse 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.

Verse 8. Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.

Verse 9. He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.

Verse 10. He saved them from the hand that hated them; He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

Verse 11. The waters covered their foes; not one of them remained.

Verse 12. Then they believed His promises and sang His praise.

Verse 13. Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.

Verse 14. They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.

Verse 15. So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them.

Verse 16. In the camp they envied Moses, as well as Aaron, the holy one of the LORD.

Verse 17. The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.

Verse 18. Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked.

Verse 19. At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.

Verse 20. They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.

Verse 21. They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,

Verse 22. wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.

Verse 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.

Verse 24. They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.

Verse 25. They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

Verse 26. So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,

Verse 27. to disperse their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

Verse 28. They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.

Verse 29. So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

Verse 30. But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.

Verse 31. It was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.

Verse 32. At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them.

Verse 33. For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.

Verse 34. They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,

Verse 35. but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.

Verse 36. They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.

Verse 37. They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

Verse 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.

Verse 39. They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

Verse 40. So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.

Verse 41. He delivered them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.

Verse 42. Their enemies oppressed them and subdued them under their hand.

Verse 43. Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.

Verse 44. Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.

Verse 45. And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

Verse 46. He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.

Verse 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.

Verse 48. Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Hallelujah!