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 his goodness, for his kindness endures forever.

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

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

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

Happy they who act justly, and do righteousness evermore.

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

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

5 To look on the good of Thy chosen ones, To rejoice in the joy of Thy nation, To boast myself 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 done perversely, we have done wickedly.

We, like our fathers, have sinned, we have done perversely and 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.

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

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

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; they marched through the depths as through desert,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wonders in the land of Ham, terrors 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 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 kick against the desirable land, They have not given credence to His word.

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

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

They grumbled in their tents, would 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 swore with uplifted hand to lay them low in the wilderness;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the 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 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 are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.

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

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

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

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

He delivered them to the heathen, to the sway of those who hated 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 a time he saved them, but they rebelled at his counsel, and were brought low by their wrongdoing.

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

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

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

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

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

He caused them to be pitied by all who carried 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 out of the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, and to make our boast of 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. And let all the people say ‘Amen.’ Praise the Lord.