Psalms 106
1 Praise ye Yah, Give ye thanks to Yahweh—For he is good, For age-abiding, is his lovingkindness.
Hallelujah! Give thanks to the Lord for his goodness, for his kindness endures forever.
2 Who can relate the mighty deeds of Yahweh? can cause to be heard, all his praise?
Who can describe his heroic deeds, or publish all his praise?
3 How happy! They who observe justice, He that executeth righteousness at all times.
Happy they who act justly, and do righteousness evermore.
4 Remember me, O Yahweh, when thou acceptest thy people, Visit me, with thy salvation;
Remember me, Lord, as you remember your people, and visit me with your gracious help.
5 That I may look upon the welfare of thy chosen ones, That I may rejoice in the joy of thy nation, That I may glory, with thine 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—with our fathers, We have acted perversely, we have committed lawlessness;
We, like our fathers, have sinned, we have done perversely and wickedly
7 Our fathers, in Egypt, understood not thy wonders, They remembered not the abounding of thy lovingkindnesses, but rebelled by the sea—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 known his mighty power;
But true to his name he saved them, in order to show his might.
9 So he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up, And he led them through deeps, as pasture-land;
He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried; they marched through the depths as through desert,
10 And saved them from the hand of one full of hatred, And redeemed them out of the hand of the foe;
saved from the hand of the hostile, redeemed from the hand of the foe.
11 So the waters covered their adversaries, Not one from among them, was left.
The waters covered their enemies: not one of them was left.
12 They believed therefore in his words, They sang his praise.
So then they believed in his words, and began to sing his praise.
13 Soon forgat they his works, —They waited not for his counsel;
But soon they forgot his deeds: they did not wait for his counsel.
14 But lusted a lust in the desert, and tested GOD in the waste.
Their greed was ravenous in the desert; they put God to the test in the wilderness.
15 So he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.
He gave them the thing they had asked for, but sent wasting disease among them.
16 And they became jealous of Moses in the camp, —of Aaron the holy one of Yahweh;
The camp grew jealous of Moses and of Aaron, holy one of the Lord.
17 The earth opened and engulfed Dathan, and covered up the assembly of Abiram;
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered Abiram’s company.
18 Then was kindled a fire in their assembly, —a flame, consumed the lawless ones.
Fire broke out on their company, flame kindled upon the wicked.
19 They made a calf in Horeb, —and bowed down to a molten image;
They made a calf in Horeb, and bowed to the molten image.
20 Thus changed they my glory, for the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
They exchanged their glorious God for the image of ox that eats grass.
21 They forgat GOD their saviour, who had done great things in Egypt:
They forgot the God who had saved them by mighty deeds in Egypt
22 Wonders in the land of Ham, Terrible things by the Red Sea.
Wonders in the land of Ham, terrors by the Red Sea.
23 Then would he have bidden to destroy them, —had not Moses his chosen, stood in the breach before him, To turn back his wrath from destroying.
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 And they refused the delightful land, They believed not his word;
They spurned the delightsome land, they refused to believe in his word.
25 But murmured in their tents, —They hearkened not unto the voice of Yahweh.
They grumbled in their tents, would not listen to the voice of the Lord.
26 So he lifted up his hand unto them, that he would let them fall in the desert;
So he swore with uplifted hand to lay them low in the wilderness;
27 And would disperse their seed among the nations, and would scatter them throughout the lands.
to disperse their seed among heathen, to scatter them over the world.
28 Yet they let themselves be bound to Baal-peor, —and did eat sacrifices to the dead:
Then they joined them to Baal of Peor, and ate what was offered the dead.
29 So they provoked to anger by their doings, and a plague, made a breach among them.
They provoked him to wrath by their deeds, and plague broke out among them.
30 Then stood up Phinehas, and interposed, and stayed was the plague:
Then Phinehas stood between, and so the plague was stayed;
31 So it was counted unto him, for righteousness, To generation after generation, unto times age abiding.
and it was counted to him for righteousness unto all generations forever.
32 And they provoked by the waters of Meribah, —And it fared ill with Moses, for their sakes;
They angered him at the waters of Meribah, through them it went ill with Moses.
33 For they embittered his spirit, and he spake rashly with his lips.
They rebelled against his spirit, and he uttered speech that was rash.
34 They destroyed not the peoples of which Yahweh had spoken to them;
They did not destroy the nations, as the Lord had commanded them;
35 But had fellowship with the nations, and learned their doings;
but they mingled with the heathen, and learned to do as they did.
36 Yea they served their idols, and they became to them a snare:
Their idol gods they worshipped, and they were ensnared by them.
37 Yea they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to mischievous demons;
They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons.
38 And poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, And the land was polluted with blood-shed;
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 And they became unclean by their works, and became unchaste in their doings.
They became unclean by their works, and adulterous in their deeds.
40 Then was kindled the anger of Yahweh with his people, and he abhorred his own inheritance.
Then the Lord’s fury was on his people, filled with horror at his inheritance.
41 So he delivered them up into the hand of the nations, And they who hated them, had dominion over them;
He delivered them to the heathen, to the sway of those who hated them.
42 And their enemies oppressed them, And they were bowed down under their hand.
Their enemies oppressed them, and subdued them under their hand.
43 Many times, did he rescue them, —But, they, rebelled by their counsel, and sank low in their iniquity.
Many a time he saved them, but they rebelled at his counsel, and were brought low by their wrongdoing.
44 Then looked he on the distress which befell them, —when he heard their loud cry;
Yet he looked upon their distress, when he heard their cry.
45 Then remembered he, for them, his covenant, and was moved to pity, according to the abounding of his lovingkindnesses;
He remembered his covenant, and, in his great kindness, relented.
46 And granted them compassion before all their captors.
He caused them to be pitied by all who carried them captive.
47 Save us, O Yahweh our God, and gather us from among the nations, That we may give thanks unto thy holy Name, That we may triumph aloud in thy 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 Yahweh, God of Israel, from one age even unto another, And all the people, shall say, Amen! Praise ye Yah!
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. And let all the people say ‘Amen.’ Praise the Lord.
