Psalms 106
1 Praise Yahweh! Praise Yahweh, because he does good things [for us]; he faithfully loves [us] forever/continually!
Praise ye the LORD! O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; For his mercy endureth for ever!
2 [Because Yahweh has done many great things], no one can [RHQ] tell all the great things that Yahweh has done, and no one can praise him enough/sufficiently.
Who can utter the mighty deeds of the LORD? Who can show forth all his praise?
3 (Happy are/He is pleased with) those who act fairly/justly, with those who always do what is right.
Happy are they who have regard to justice, Who practise righteousness at all times!
4 Yahweh, be kind to me when you help your people; help me when you rescue/save them.
Remember me, O LORD! with the favor promised to thy people; O visit me with thy salvation!
5 Allow me to see it when your people become prosperous again and when [all the people of] your nation, [Israel], are happy; allow me to be happy with them! I want to praise you along with [all] those [others] who belong to you.
That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen, That I may rejoice in the joy of thy people, That I may glory with thine inheritance!
6 We and our ancestors have sinned; we have done things that were very wicked [DOU].
We have sinned with our fathers; We have committed iniquity; we have done wickedly.
7 When our ancestors were in Egypt, they did not pay attention to the wonderful things that Yahweh did; they forgot about the many times that he showed that he faithfully loved them. Instead, when they were at the Red Sea, they rebelled against God, who is greater than any other god.
Our fathers in Egypt did not regard thy wonders; They remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; But rebelled at the sea, the Red sea.
8 But he rescued them for the sake of his own [reputation] in order that he could show that he is very powerful.
Yet he saved them for his own name's sake. That he might make his mighty power to be known.
9 He rebuked the Red Sea and it became dry, and [then] while he led our ancestors across it, they walked through it as though it were as dry as a desert [SIM].
He rebuked the Red sea, and it was dried up, And he led them through the deep as through a desert.
10 In that way he rescued them from the power [MTY] of their enemies who hated them [DOU].
He saved them from the hand of him that hated them, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
11 [Then] their enemies were drowned in the water [of the Red Sea]; not one of them was left.
The waters covered their enemies; There was not one of them left.
12 When that happened, our ancestors believed [that Yahweh had truly done for them] what he had promised to do, and they sang to praise him.
Then believed they his words, And sang his praise.
13 But they soon forgot what he had done for them; they [did things] without waiting to find out what Yahweh wanted them to do.
But they soon forgot his deeds, And waited not for his counsel.
14 They intensely wanted [food like they formerly ate in Egypt]. They [did evil things to] find out [if they could do those things without God punishing them].
They gave way to appetite in the wilderness, And tempted God in the desert;
15 [So] he gave them what they requested, but he [also] caused a terrible disease to afflict them.
And he gave them their request, But sent upon them leanness.
16 [Later] when [some of] the men became jealous of Moses and [his older brother] Aaron, who was dedicated [to serve Yahweh by being a priest],
They also envied Moses in the camp, And Aaron, the holy one of the LORD.
17 the ground opened up and swallowed Dathan and [also] buried Abiram and his family.
Then the earth opened, and swallowed up Dathan, And covered the company of Abiram,
18 And [God sent] a fire down [from heaven] which burned up [all] the wicked [people who (supported them/agreed with) them].
And a fire was kindled in their company; The flames burned up the wicked.
19 Then the [Israeli leaders] made a gold statue at Sinai [Mountain] and worshiped it.
They made a calf in Horeb, And worshipped a molten image;
20 Instead of worshiping [our] glorious God, they [started to] worship a statue of a bull that eats grass!
They changed their God of glory Into the image of a grass-eating ox.
21 They forgot about God, who had rescued them by the great miracles that he performed in Egypt.
They forgot God, their saviour, Who had done such great things in Egypt,
22 They forgot about the wonderful things that he did for them in Egypt and the amazing/awesome things that he did for them at the Red Sea.
Such wonders in the land of Ham. Such terrible things at the Red sea.
23 Because of that, God said that he would get rid of the Israelis, but Moses, whom God had chosen [to serve him], pleaded with God [not to get rid of them]. And as a result God did not destroy them.
Then he said that he would destroy them; Had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the breach, To turn away his wrath, that he might not destroy them.
24 [Later], our ancestors (refused/were afraid) to enter beautiful [Canaan] land because they did not believe [that God would enable them to take the land from the people who were living there, as] he had promised.
They also despised the pleasant land, And believed not his word;
25 They stayed in their tents and grumbled and would not pay attention to what Yahweh said that they should do.
But murmured in their tents, And would not hearken to the voice of the LORD.
26 So he solemnly [MTY] told them that he would cause them to die [there] in the desert,
Then he lifted up his hand against them, And swore that he would make them fall in the wilderness;
27 and that he would scatter their descendants among the [people of other] nations/people-groups [who did not believe in him], and that he would allow them to die in those lands.
That he would overthrow their descendants among the nations, And scatter them in the lands.
28 Later the Israeli people [started to] worship [the idol of] Baal [who they thought lived] at Peor [Mountain], and they ate [meat that had been] sacrificed to [Baal and those other] lifeless gods.
They also gave themselves to the worship of Baal-peor, And ate sacrifices offered to lifeless idols.
29 Yahweh became [very] angry because of what they had done, [so again] he sent a terrible disease to attack/strike them.
Thus they provoked his anger by their practices, And a plague broke in upon them.
30 But Phinehas stood up and punished/killed [the ones who had sinned greatly], and as a result the (plague/serious disease) ended.
Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment, And the plague was stayed.
31 People have remembered that righteous thing that Phinehas did, and in future years people will remember it.
And this was counted to him for righteousness, To all generations for ever.
32 [Then] at Meribah Springs our ancestors caused Yahweh to become angry, and as a result Moses had trouble.
They provoked him also at the waters of Meribah [[strife]], And evil befell Moses on their account.
33 They caused Moses to become very angry [IDM], and he said things that were foolish.
For they provoked his spirit, So that he spake inconsiderately with his lips.
34 Our ancestors did not destroy the people [who did not believe in Yahweh] like he told them to do.
They did not destroy the nations, As Jehovah had commanded them.
35 Instead, they mingled with people from those people-groups, and they started to do the evil things that those people did.
They mingled themselves with the peoples, And learned their practices.
36 Our ancestors worshiped the idols of those people, which resulted in their being destroyed/exiled/taken to another country [MET].
They even worshipped their idols, Which became to them a snare.
37 [Some of] the Israelis sacrificed their sons and daughters to the demons [that those idols represented].
Their sons and their daughters they sacrificed to demons,
38 They killed [MTY] their own children, who (were innocent/had not done things that were wrong), and offered them as sacrifices to the idols in Canaan. [As a result], Canaan land was polluted by those murders [MTY].
And shed innocent blood, The blood of their own sons and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with blood.
39 So by their deeds they caused themselves to become unacceptable to God; [because they did not faithfully worship only God], [they became like] women who sleep with other men [instead of sleeping only with their husbands] [MET].
Thus they defiled themselves with their works, And played the harlot with their practices.
40 So Yahweh became very angry with his people; he was completely disgusted with them.
Then burned the anger of the LORD against his people, So that he abhorred his own inheritance.
41 [As a result] he allowed people-groups [who did not believe in him] to conquer them, so those who hated our ancestors started to rule over them.
And he gave them into the hand of the nations, And they who hated them ruled over them.
42 Their enemies (oppressed them/treated them cruelly) and completely controlled them [MET].
Their enemies oppressed them, And they were bowed down under their hand.
43 Many times Yahweh rescued them, but they continued to rebel against him, and they were finally destroyed because of the sins that they committed.
Many times did he deliver them; But they provoked him by their devices, And they were brought low for their iniquities.
44 However, Yahweh [always] heard them when they cried out to him; he listened to them when they were distressed.
Yet, when he heard their cries, He had regard to their affliction;
45 For their sake, he thought about the agreement/promise that he had made [to bless] them, and because he never stopped loving them very much, he changed his mind [about punishing them more].
He remembered his covenant with them, And repented according to the greatness of his mercy,
46 He caused all those who had taken the Israelis [to Babylonia] to (feel sorry for/pity) them.
And caused them to find pity Among all that carried them captive.
47 Yahweh our God, rescue/save us and bring us back [to Israel] from among those people-groups in order that we may thank you [MTY] and joyfully praise you.
Save us, O Jehovah, our God! and gather us from among the nations, That we may give thanks to thy holy name, And glory in thy praise!
48 Praise Yahweh, the God whom [we] Israelis [worship], praise him now and forever! And I want everyone to say, “Amen/May it be so!” Praise Yahweh!
[Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, From everlasting to everlasting! And let all the people say, Amen! Praise ye Jehovah!]
