106:1 ①Praise ②the LORD!
Oh give thanks to the LORD, for He is good;
For His mercy is everlasting.
▷ ①Or Hallelujah! ②Heb YAH
106:2 Who can speak of the mighty deeds of the LORD,
Or can proclaim all His praise?
106:3 How blessed are those who maintain ①justice,
②Who practice righteousness at all times!
▷ ①Or judgment ②Many Heb mss The one who performs
106:4 Remember me, LORD, in Your favor ①toward Your people.
Visit me with Your salvation,
▷ ①Lit of
106:5 So that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones,
That I may rejoice in the joy of Your nation,
That I may boast with Your ①inheritance.
▷ ①I.e., people
106:6 We have sinned ①like our fathers,
We have gone astray, we have behaved wickedly.
▷ ①Lit with
106:7 Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your ①wonders;
They did not remember ②Your abundant kindnesses,
But rebelled by the sea, at the ③Red Sea.
▷ ①I.e., wonderful acts ②Lit the multitude of Your kindnesses ③Lit Sea of Reeds
106:8 Nevertheless He saved them for the sake of His name,
So that He might make His power known.
106:9 So He rebuked the ①Red Sea and it dried up,
And He led them through the mighty waters, as through the wilderness.
▷ ①Lit Sea of Reeds
106:10 So He saved them from the ①hand of one who hated them,
And redeemed them from the ②hand of the enemy.
▷ ①Or power ②Or power
106:11 The waters covered their adversaries;
Not one of them was left.
106:12 Then they believed His words;
They sang His praise.
106:13 They quickly forgot His works;
They did not wait for His plan,
106:14 But became lustfully greedy in the wilderness,
And put God to the test in the desert.
106:15 So He gave them their request,
But sent a ①wasting disease among them.
▷ ①Or leanness into their soul
106:16 When they became envious of Moses in the camp,
And of Aaron, the holy one of the LORD,
106:17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
And engulfed the ①company of Abiram.
▷ ①Or assembly, band
106:18 And a fire blazed up in their ①company;
The flame consumed the wicked.
▷ ①Or assembly, band
106:19 They made a calf in Horeb,
And worshiped a cast metal image.
106:20 So they exchanged their glory
For the image of an ox that eats grass.
106:21 They forgot God their Savior,
Who had done great things in Egypt,
106:22 ①Wonders in the land of Ham,
And awesome things by the ②Red Sea.
▷ ①I.e., Wonderful acts ②Lit Sea of Reeds
106:23 Therefore He said that He would destroy them,
If Moses, His chosen one, had not stood in the gap before Him,
To turn away His wrath from destroying them.
106:24 Then they rejected the pleasant land;
They did not believe His word,
106:25 But grumbled in their tents;
They did not listen to the voice of the LORD.
106:26 Therefore He ①swore to them
That He would have them fall in the wilderness,
▷ ①Lit lifted up His hand
106:27 And that He would bring down their ①descendants among the nations,
And scatter them in the lands.
▷ ①Lit seed
106:28 They also followed ①Baal-peor,
And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
▷ ①Or Baal of Peor
106:29 So they provoked Him to anger with their deeds,
And a plague broke out among them.
106:30 Then Phinehas stood up and ①intervened,
And so the plague was brought to a halt.
▷ ①Or pronounced judgment
106:31 And it was credited to him as righteousness,
To all generations forever.
106:32 They also provoked Him to wrath at the waters of ①Meribah,
So that it went badly for Moses on their account.
▷ ①Lit strife
106:33 Because they were rebellious against ①His Spirit,
He spoke rashly with his lips.
▷ ①Or his spirit
106:34 They did not destroy the peoples,
As the LORD had commanded them,
106:35 But they got involved with the nations
And learned their ①practices,
▷ ①Lit works
106:36 And served their idols,
Which became a snare to them.
106:37 They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons,
106:38 And shed innocent blood,
The blood of their sons and their daughters
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
And the land was defiled with the blood.
106:39 So they became unclean in their ①practices,
And ②were unfaithful in their deeds.
▷ ①Lit works ②Or prostituted themselves
106:40 Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against His people,
And He loathed His ①inheritance.
▷ ①I.e., people
106:41 So He handed them over to the ①nations,
And those who hated them ruled over them.
▷ ①Or Gentiles
106:42 Their enemies also oppressed them,
And they were subdued under their ①power.
▷ ①Lit hand
106:43 Many times He would rescue them;
They, however, were rebellious in their plan,
And they sank down into their guilt.
106:44 Nevertheless He looked at their distress
When He heard their cry;
106:45 And He remembered His covenant for their sake,
And ①relented according to the greatness of His mercy.
▷ ①Lit was sorry
106:46 He also made them objects of compassion
In the presence of all their captors.
106:47 Save us, LORD our God,
And gather us from the nations,
To give thanks to Your holy name
And glory in Your praise.
106:48 Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel,
From everlasting to everlasting.
And all the people shall say, “Amen.”
①Praise ②the LORD!
▷ ①Or Hallelujah! ②Heb YAH