Psalms 106
1 Praise YAH, give thanks to YHWH, for [He is] good, for His kindness [is] for all time!
Praise the Lord! Thank the Lord, for he is good! His trustworthy love lasts forever.
2 Who utters the mighty acts of YHWH? Sounds all His praise?
Who can give an account of all the wonderful things the Lord has done? Who can give him all the praise he is due?
3 O the blessedness of those keeping judgment, Doing righteousness at all times.
Happy are those who treat people fairly, who always do what is right.
4 Remember me, O YHWH, With the favor of Your people, Look after me in Your salvation.
Please remember me when you are generous to your people; think of me when you come to save.
5 To look on the good of Your chosen ones, To rejoice in the joy of Your nation, To boast myself with Your inheritance.
Let me see your chosen people prosperous; let me be happy together with your nation; let me share in being proud of you with those who belong to you.
6 We have sinned with our fathers, We have done perversely, we have done wickedly.
We have sinned just like our forefathers. We have done wrong. We are guilty.
7 Our fathers in Egypt, Have not considered wisely Your wonders, They have not remembered The abundance of Your kind acts, And provoke by the sea, at the Sea of Suph.
They didn't pay attention to the wonderful things you did. They didn't keep in mind how much you loved them, but chose to rebel at the sea, the Red Sea.
8 And He saves them for His Name’s sake, To make His might known,
Even so he saved them because of the kind of person he is, and to show his power
9 And rebukes the Sea of Suph, and it is dried up, And causes them to go Through depths as a wilderness.
He gave his order to the Red Sea, and it dried up. He led his people across the seabed as if it were a desert.
10 And He saves them from the hand Of him who is hating, And redeems them from the hand of the enemy.
He rescued them from those who hated them; he saved them from their enemies' power.
11 And waters cover their adversaries, One of them has not been left.
The water drowned their enemies—none of them survived,
12 And they believe in His words, they sing His praise,
Then his people trusted in what he promised, and sang his praises.
13 They have hurried—forgotten His works, They have not waited for His counsel.
But they quickly forgot what he had done for them, and they didn't listen to his advice.
14 And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert.
They were filled with desperate cravings in the wilderness; they provoked God in the desert.
15 And He gives to them their request, And sends leanness into their soul.
He gave them what they wanted, but sent them a plague as well.
16 And they are envious of Moses in the camp, Of Aaron, YHWH’s holy one.
In the camp the people became jealous of Moses, and of Aaron, the Lord's holy priest.
17 Earth opens, and swallows up Dathan, And covers over the company of Abiram.
The earth split open and swallowed up Dathan; it buried Abiram and his followers.
18 And fire burns among their company, A flame sets the wicked on fire.
Fire broke out among them—a flame that burned them up.
19 They make a calf in Horeb, And bow themselves to a molten image,
At Mount Sinai they made a calf, they bowed down before a metal idol.
20 And change their glory Into the form of an ox eating herbs.
They replaced their God of glory with a bull that eats grass!
21 They have forgotten God their Savior, The doer of great things in Egypt,
They forgot God, their Savior, who had done marvelous things in Egypt;
22 Of wonderful things in the land of Ham, Of fearful things by the Sea of Suph.
performing miracles in the land of Ham, doing amazing things at the Red Sea.
23 And He commands to destroy them, Unless Moses, His chosen one, Had stood in the breach before Him, To turn back His wrath from destroying.
So he said he was going to destroy them But Moses, his chosen leader, placed himself between the Lord and the people to persuade the Lord not to destroy them in his anger.
24 And they kick against the desirable land, They have not given credence to His word.
Later the people refused to enter the Promised Land; they didn't trust him to do as he'd promised.
25 And they murmur in their tents, They have not listened to the voice of YHWH.
They complained in their tents about the Lord, and refused to obey what he told them.
26 And He lifts up His hand to them, To cause them to fall in a wilderness,
So he raised his hand to give them a serious warning that he would bring them down in the wilderness,
27 And to cause their seed to fall among nations, And to scatter them through lands.
that he would disperse their descendants among the heathen nations, scattering them among countries far away.
28 And they are coupled to Ba‘al-Peor, And eat the sacrifices of the dead,
They gave their allegiance to Baal Peor, and ate food sacrificed to the dead.
29 And they provoke to anger by their actions, And a plague breaks forth on them,
They provoked the Lord by what they did, making him angry, so a plague broke out among them.
30 And Phinehas stands, and executes judgment, And the plague is restrained,
But Phinehas took a stand for the Lord and intervened, and the plague was stopped in its tracks.
31 And it is reckoned to him for righteousness, From generation to generation—for all time.
He has been considered as a man who lived right from that time on and for all generations.
32 And they cause wrath by the waters of Meribah, And it is evil to Moses for their sakes,
They also angered him at the waters of Meribah where things went badly for Moses because of them.
33 For they have provoked his spirit, And he speaks wrongfully with his lips.
They upset him so much that he spoke without thinking in the heat of the moment.
34 They have not destroyed the peoples, As YHWH had commanded to them,
They did not destroy the heathen peoples as the Lord had told them to do,
35 And mix themselves among nations, and learn their works,
but instead they joined in with them and adopted their way of life.
36 And serve their idols, And they are for a snare to them.
They worshiped their pagan idols which became a trap for them.
37 And they sacrifice their sons and their daughters to the demons,
The even sacrificed their sons and daughters to these demons.
38 And they shed innocent blood—Blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they have sacrificed to idols of Canaan, And the land is profaned with blood.
They shed the blood of innocent children, their sons and daughters, sacrificing them to the idols of Canaan. By doing so they defiled the land with blood.
39 And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.
The also defiled themselves by what they did: their actions were spiritual adultery.
40 And the anger of YHWH Is kindled against His people, And He detests His inheritance.
So the Lord was angry with his people—he loathed those who belonged to him.
41 And gives them into the hand of nations, And those hating them rule over them,
He handed them over to the heathen nations. These people who hated them now became their rulers.
42 And their enemies oppress them, And they are humbled under their hand.
Their enemies dominated and subdued them with their power.
43 He delivers them many times, And they rebel in their counsel, And they are brought low in their iniquity.
The Lord repeatedly rescued them, but they continued with their rebellious ideas, until they were finally destroyed by their own sins.
44 And He looks on their distress When He hears their cry,
Despite all this, the Lord was moved by their suffering; he heard their sad cries.
45 And remembers His covenant for them, And is comforted, According to the abundance of His kindness.
He remembered the agreement he had made with them, and he held back because of his great kindness and love.
46 And He appoints them for mercies Before all their captors.
He made the people who captured them treat them with mercy.
47 Save us, O our God YHWH, and gather us from the nations, To give thanks to Your Holy Name, To glory in Your praise.
Save us, Lord, our God! Bring us back together from among the nations, so we can thank you and declare how magnificent and holy you are.
48 Blessed [is] YHWH, God of Israel, From age until age. And all the people said, “Amen, praise YAH!”
How wonderful is the Lord, the God of Israel, who lives forever and ever! Let all the people say “Amen”! Praise the Lord!
