Psalms 106
1 Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
Hallelujah! Give thanks to the Lord for his goodness, for his kindness endures forever.
2 Who can describe the mighty acts of the LORD or fully proclaim His praise?
Who can describe his heroic deeds, or publish all his praise?
3 Blessed are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times.
Happy they who act justly, and do righteousness evermore.
4 Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,
Remember me, Lord, as you remember your people, and visit me with your gracious help.
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.
May I see the good fortune of your elect, may I share in the joy of your nation, and in the pride of your heritage.
6 We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
We, like our fathers, have sinned, we have done perversely and wickedly
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.
In the land of Egypt our fathers, all heedless of your wonders, and unmindful of your great kindness, at the Red Sea defied the Most High.
8 Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.
But true to his name he saved them, in order to show his might.
9 He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.
He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried; they marched through the depths as through desert,
10 He saved them from the hand that hated them; He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
saved from the hand of the hostile, redeemed from the hand of the foe.
11 The waters covered their foes; not one of them remained.
The waters covered their enemies: not one of them was left.
12 Then they believed His promises and sang His praise.
So then they believed in his words, and began to sing his praise.
13 Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.
But soon they forgot his deeds: they did not wait for his counsel.
14 They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.
Their greed was ravenous in the desert; they put God to the test in the wilderness.
15 So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them.
He gave them the thing they had asked for, but sent wasting disease among them.
16 In the camp they envied Moses, as well as Aaron, the holy one of the LORD.
The camp grew jealous of Moses and of Aaron, holy one of the Lord.
17 The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered Abiram’s company.
18 Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked.
Fire broke out on their company, flame kindled upon the wicked.
19 At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.
They made a calf in Horeb, and bowed to the molten image.
20 They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.
They exchanged their glorious God for the image of ox that eats grass.
21 They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,
They forgot the God who had saved them by mighty deeds in Egypt
22 wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
Wonders in the land of Ham, terrors by the Red Sea.
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.
So he vowed, and would have destroyed them, but for Moses his elect, who stepped into the breach before him, to divert his deadly wrath.
24 They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.
They spurned the delightsome land, they refused to believe in his word.
25 They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.
They grumbled in their tents, would not listen to the voice of the Lord.
26 So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,
So he swore with uplifted hand to lay them low in the wilderness;
27 to disperse their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.
to disperse their seed among heathen, to scatter them over the world.
28 They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
Then they joined them to Baal of Peor, and ate what was offered the dead.
29 So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
They provoked him to wrath by their deeds, and plague broke out among them.
30 But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.
Then Phinehas stood between, and so the plague was stayed;
31 It was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.
and it was counted to him for righteousness unto all generations forever.
32 At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them.
They angered him at the waters of Meribah, through them it went ill with Moses.
33 For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.
They rebelled against his spirit, and he uttered speech that was rash.
34 They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,
They did not destroy the nations, as the Lord had commanded them;
35 but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
but they mingled with the heathen, and learned to do as they did.
36 They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.
Their idol gods they worshipped, and they were ensnared by them.
37 They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons.
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.
They poured out innocent blood the blood of their sons and daughters whom they offered to Canaan’s idols, and the land was polluted with blood.
39 They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
They became unclean by their works, and adulterous in their deeds.
40 So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.
Then the Lord’s fury was on his people, filled with horror at his inheritance.
41 He delivered them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.
He delivered them to the heathen, to the sway of those who hated them.
42 Their enemies oppressed them, and subdued them under their hand.
Their enemies oppressed them, and subdued them under their hand.
43 Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.
Many a time he saved them, but they rebelled at his counsel, and were brought low by their wrongdoing.
44 Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.
Yet he looked upon their distress, when he heard their cry.
45 And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.
He remembered his covenant, and, in his great kindness, relented.
46 He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.
He caused them to be pitied by all who carried them captive.
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.
Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us out of the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, and to make our boast of your praise.
48 Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Hallelujah!
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. And let all the people say ‘Amen.’ Praise the Lord.
