Psalm 106

¹ Praise the Lord!
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,
for his steadfast love endures forever!

²Who can utter the mighty deeds of the Lord,
or declare all his praise?

³Blessed are they who observe justice,
who do righteousness at all times!

⁴ Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people;
help me when you save them,

⁵that I may look upon the prosperity of your chosen ones,
that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation,
that I may glory with your inheritance.

⁶ Both we and our fathers have sinned;
we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness.

⁷Our fathers, when they were in Egypt,
did not consider your wondrous works;
they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love,
but rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.

⁸Yet he saved them for his name’s sake,
that he might make known his mighty power.

⁹He rebuked the Red Sea, and it became dry,
and he led them through the deep as through a desert.

¹⁰So he saved them from the hand of the foe
and redeemed them from the power of the enemy.

¹¹And the waters covered their adversaries;
not one of them was left.

¹²Then they believed his words;
they sang his praise.

¹³But they soon forgot his works;
they did not wait for his counsel.

¹⁴But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness,
and put God to the test in the desert;

¹⁵he gave them what they asked,
but sent a wasting disease among them.

¹⁶When men in the camp were jealous of Moses
and Aaron, the holy one of the Lord,

¹⁷ the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
and covered the company of Abiram.

¹⁸ Fire also broke out in their company;
the flame burned up the wicked.

¹⁹They made a calf in Horeb
and worshiped a metal image.

²⁰They exchanged the glory of God
for the image of an ox that eats grass.

²¹They forgot God, their Savior,
who had done great things in Egypt,

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

²³Therefore he said he would destroy them—
had not Moses, his chosen one,
stood in the breach before him,
to turn away his wrath from destroying them.

²⁴Then they despised the pleasant land,
having no faith in his promise.

²⁵They murmured in their tents,
and did not obey the voice of the Lord.

²⁶Therefore he raised his hand and swore to them
that he would make them fall in the wilderness,

²⁷and would make their offspring fall among the nations,
scattering them among the lands.

²⁸Then they yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor,
and ate sacrifices offered to the dead;

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

³⁰Then Phinehas stood up and intervened,
and the plague was stayed.

³¹And that was counted to him as righteousness
from generation to generation forever.

³²They angered him at the waters of Meribah,
and it went ill with Moses on their account,

³³for they made his spirit bitter,
and he spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴They did not destroy the peoples,
as the Lord commanded them,

³⁵but they mixed with the nations
and learned to do as they did.

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

³⁷They sacrificed their sons
and their daughters to the demons;

³⁸they poured out innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
and the land was polluted with blood.

³⁹Thus they became unclean by their acts,
and played the whore in their deeds.

⁴⁰Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people,
and he abhorred his heritage;

⁴¹he gave them into the hand of the nations,
so that those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴²Their enemies oppressed them,
and they were brought into subjection under their power.

⁴³ Many times he delivered them,
but they were rebellious in their purposes
and were brought low through their iniquity.

⁴⁴Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress,
when he heard their cry.

⁴⁵For their sake he remembered his covenant,
and relented according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

⁴⁶He caused them to be pitied
by all those who held them captive.

⁴⁷ Save us, O Lord our God,
and gather us from among the nations,
that we may give thanks to your holy name
and glory in your praise.

⁴⁸ Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting!
And let all the people say, “Amen!”
Praise the Lord!

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