Psalms 106

1 Praise ye Jah, give thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age, [is] His kindness.

Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.

2 Who doth utter the mighty acts of Jehovah? Soundeth all His praise?

Who can describe the mighty acts of the LORD or fully proclaim His praise?

3 O the happiness of those keeping judgment, Doing righteousness at all times.

Blessed are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times.

4 Remember me, O Jehovah, With the favour of Thy people, Look after me in Thy salvation.

Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,

5 To look on the good of Thy chosen ones, To rejoice in the joy of Thy nation, To boast myself with Thine inheritance.

that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, and give glory with Your inheritance.

6 We have sinned with our fathers, We have done perversely, we have done wickedly.

We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.

7 Our fathers in Egypt, Have not considered wisely Thy wonders, They have not remembered The abundance of Thy kind acts, And provoke by the sea, at the sea of Suph.

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.

8 And He saveth them for His name's sake, To make known His might,

Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.

9 And rebuketh the sea of Suph, and it is dried up, And causeth them to go Through depths as a wilderness.

He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.

10 And He saveth them from the hand Of him who is hating, And redeemeth them from the hand of the enemy.

He saved them from the hand that hated them; He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

11 And waters cover their adversaries, One of them hath not been left.

The waters covered their foes; not one of them remained.

12 And they believe in His words, they sing His praise,

Then they believed His promises and sang His praise.

13 They have hasted — forgotten His works, They have not waited for His counsel.

Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.

14 And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert.

They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.

15 And He giveth to them their request, And sendeth leanness into their soul.

So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them.

16 And they are envious of Moses in the camp, Of Aaron, Jehovah's holy one.

In the camp they envied Moses, as well as Aaron, the holy one of the LORD.

17 Earth openeth, and swalloweth up Dathan, And covereth over the company of Abiram.

The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.

18 And fire burneth among their company, A flame setteth on fire the wicked.

Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked.

19 They make a calf in Horeb, And bow themselves to a molten image,

At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.

20 And change their Honour Into the form of an ox eating herbs.

They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.

21 They have forgotten God their saviour, The doer of great things in Egypt,

They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,

22 Of wonderful things in the land of Ham, Of fearful things by the sea of Suph.

wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.

23 And He saith 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 would destroy them— had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.

24 And they kick against the desirable land, They have not given credence to His word.

They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.

25 And they murmur in their tents, They have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah.

They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

26 And He lifteth up His hand to them, To cause them to fall in a wilderness,

So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,

27 And to cause their seed to fall among nations, And to scatter them through lands.

to disperse their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

28 And they are coupled to Baal-Peor, And eat the sacrifices of the dead,

They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.

29 And they provoke to anger by their actions, And a plague breaketh forth upon them,

So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

30 And Phinehas standeth, and executeth judgment, And the plague is restrained,

But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.

31 And it is reckoned to him to righteousness, To all generations — unto the age.

It was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.

32 And they cause wrath by the waters of Meribah, And it is evil to Moses for their sakes,

At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them.

33 For they have provoked his spirit, And he speaketh wrongfully with his lips.

For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.

34 They have not destroyed the peoples, As Jehovah had said to them,

They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,

35 And mix themselves among nations, and learn their works,

but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.

36 And serve their idols, And they are to them for a snare.

They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.

37 And they sacrifice their sons And their daughters to destroyers,

They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to 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 innocent blood— the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.

39 And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.

They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

40 And the anger of Jehovah Is kindled against His people, And He doth abominate His inheritance.

So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.

41 And giveth them into the hand of nations, And those hating them rule over them,

He delivered them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.

42 And their enemies oppress them, And they are humbled under their hand.

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

43 Many times He doth deliver them, And they rebel in their counsel, And they are brought low in their iniquity.

Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.

44 And He looketh on their distress When He heareth their cry,

Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.

45 And remembereth for them His covenant, And is comforted, According to the abundance of His kindness.

And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

46 And He appointeth them for mercies Before all their captors.

He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.

47 Save us, O Jehovah our God, and gather us from the nations, To give thanks to Thy holy name, To glory in Thy praise.

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.

48 Blessed [is] Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age even unto the age. And all the people said, 'Amen, praise Jah!'

Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Hallelujah!