Psalms 106

1 Hallelujah! Give thanks to the Lord for his goodness, for his kindness endures forever.

Hallelujah! Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever.

2 Who can describe his heroic deeds, or publish all his praise?

Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah? [who] can shew forth all his praise?

3 Happy they who act justly, and do righteousness evermore.

Blessed are they that keep justice, [and] he that doeth righteousness at all times.

4 Remember me, Lord, as you remember your people, and visit me with your gracious help.

Remember me, O Jehovah, with [thy] favour toward thy people; visit me with thy salvation:

5 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.

That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the joy of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.

6 We, like our fathers, have sinned, we have done perversely and wickedly

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

7 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.

Our fathers in Egypt considered not thy wondrous works; they remembered not the multitude of thy loving-kindnesses; but they rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea.

8 But true to his name he saved them, in order to show his might.

Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his might.

9 He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried; they marched through the depths as through desert,

And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; and he led them through the deeps as through a wilderness.

10 saved from the hand of the hostile, redeemed from the hand of the foe.

And he saved them from the hand of him that hated [them], and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

11 The waters covered their enemies: not one of them was left.

And the waters covered their oppressors: there was not one of them left.

12 So then they believed in his words, and began to sing his praise.

Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.

13 But soon they forgot his deeds: they did not wait for his counsel.

They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:

14 Their greed was ravenous in the desert; they put God to the test in the wilderness.

And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

15 He gave them the thing they had asked for, but sent wasting disease among them.

Then he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.

16 The camp grew jealous of Moses and of Aaron, holy one of the Lord.

And they envied Moses in the camp, [and] Aaron, the saint of Jehovah.

17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered Abiram’s company.

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram;

18 Fire broke out on their company, flame kindled upon the wicked.

And fire was kindled in their company; a flame burned up the wicked.

19 They made a calf in Horeb, and bowed to the molten image.

They made a calf in Horeb, and did homage to a molten image;

20 They exchanged their glorious God for the image of ox that eats grass.

And they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

21 They forgot the God who had saved them by mighty deeds in Egypt

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

22 Wonders in the land of Ham, terrors by the Red Sea.

Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.

23 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.

And he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the breach, to turn away his fury, lest he should destroy [them].

24 They spurned the delightsome land, they refused to believe in his word.

And they despised the pleasant land; they believed not his word,

25 They grumbled in their tents, would not listen to the voice of the Lord.

But murmured in their tents: they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah.

26 So he swore with uplifted hand to lay them low in the wilderness;

And he lifted up his hand to them, that he would make them fall in the wilderness;

27 to disperse their seed among heathen, to scatter them over the world.

And that he would make their seed fall among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.

28 Then they joined them to Baal of Peor, and ate what was offered the dead.

And they joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead;

29 They provoked him to wrath by their deeds, and plague broke out among them.

And they provoked [him] to anger with their doings; and a plague broke out among them.

30 Then Phinehas stood between, and so the plague was stayed;

Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment, and the plague was stayed;

31 and it was counted to him for righteousness unto all generations forever.

And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness, from generation to generation, for evermore.

32 They angered him at the waters of Meribah, through them it went ill with Moses.

And they moved him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account;

33 They rebelled against his spirit, and he uttered speech that was rash.

For they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.

34 They did not destroy the nations, as the Lord had commanded them;

They did not destroy the peoples, as Jehovah commanded them;

35 but they mingled with the heathen, and learned to do as they did.

But they mingled with the nations, and learned their works;

36 Their idol gods they worshipped, and they were ensnared by them.

And they served their idols; and they were a snare unto them:

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

And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,

38 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.

And shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.

39 They became unclean by their works, and adulterous in their deeds.

And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings.

40 Then the Lord’s fury was on his people, filled with horror at his inheritance.

Then was the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance;

41 He delivered them to the heathen, to the sway of those who hated them.

And he gave them into the hand of the nations; and they that hated them ruled over them:

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

And their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

43 Many a time he saved them, but they rebelled at his counsel, and were brought low by their wrongdoing.

Often did he deliver them; but as for them they provoked [him] by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquity.

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

But he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry;

45 He remembered his covenant, and, in his great kindness, relented.

And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses;

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

And he caused them to find compassion of all those that had carried them captives.

47 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.

Save us, Jehovah our God, and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks unto thy holy name, [and] to triumph in thy praise.

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

Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, from eternity and to eternity! And let all the people say, Amen! Hallelujah!