Psalm 106
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good;
His love endures forever.
2Who can
proclaim the mighty acts of the Lord
or
fully declare His praise?
3Blessed
are those who act justly,
who
always do what is right.
4Remember
me, Lord, when You show favor to Your
people,
come to
my aid when You save them,
5that I
may enjoy the prosperity of Your chosen ones,
that I
may share in the joy of Your nation
and
join Your inheritance in giving praise.
6We have
sinned, even as our ancestors did;
we have
done wrong and acted wickedly.
7When
our ancestors were in Egypt,
they
gave no thought to Your miracles;
they
did not remember Your many kindnesses,
8Yet He
saved them for His Name’s sake,
to make
His mighty power known.
9He
rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;
He led
them through the depths as through a desert.
10He
saved them from the hand of the foe;
from
the hand of the enemy He redeemed them.
11The
waters covered their adversaries;
not one
of them survived.
12Then
they believed His promises
and
sang His praise.
13But
they soon forgot what He had done
and did
not wait for His plan to unfold.
14In the
desert they gave in to their craving;
in the
wilderness they put God to the test.
15So He
gave them what they asked for,
but
sent a wasting disease among them.
16In the
camp they grew envious of Moses
and of
Aaron, who was consecrated to the Lord.
17The
earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;
it
buried the company of Abiram.
18Fire
blazed among their followers;
a flame
consumed the wicked.
19At
Horeb they made a calf
and
worshiped an idol cast from metal.
20They
exchanged their Glorious God
for an
image of a bull, which eats grass.
21They
forgot the God Who saved them,
Who had
done great things in Egypt,
22miracles
in the land of Ham
and
awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
23So He
said He would destroy them—
had not
Moses, His chosen one,
stood
in the breach before Him
to keep
His wrath from destroying them.
24Then
they despised the pleasant land;
they
did not believe His promise.
25They
grumbled in their tents
and did
not obey the Lord.
26So He
swore to them with uplifted hand
that He
would make them fall in the wilderness,
27make
their descendants fall among the nations
and
scatter them throughout the lands.
28They
yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor
and ate
sacrifices offered to lifeless gods;
29they
aroused the Lord’s anger by their wicked
deeds,
and a
plague broke out among them.
30But
Phinehas stood up and intervened,
and the
plague was checked.
31This
was credited to him as righteousness
for
endless generations to come.
32By the
waters of Meribah they angered the Lord,
and
trouble came to Moses because of them;
33for
they rebelled against the Spirit of God,
34They
did not destroy the peoples
as the Lord had commanded them,
35but
they mingled with the nations
and
adopted their customs.
36They
worshiped their idols,
which
became a snare to them.
37They
sacrificed their sons
and
their daughters to false gods.
38They
shed innocent blood,
the
blood of their sons and daughters,
whom
they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
and the
land was desecrated by their blood.
39They
defiled themselves by what they did;
by
their deeds they prostituted themselves.
40Therefore
the Lord was angry with His people
and
abhorred His inheritance.
41He gave
them into the hands of the nations,
and
their foes ruled over them.
42Their
enemies oppressed them
and
subjected them to their power.
43Many
times He delivered them,
but
they were bent on rebellion
and
they wasted away in their sin.
44Yet He
took note of their distress
when He
heard their cry;
45for their
sake He remembered His covenant
and out
of His great love He relented.
46He
caused all who held them captive
to show
them mercy.
47Save us, Lord our God,
and gather us from the nations,
that we may give thanks to Your Holy Name
and Glory in Your praise.
48Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting.
Let all the people say, “Amen!”
Praise the Lord.
PSALM 106
This
Psalm gives a detailed confession of the sins of Israel in all periods of their
history, with special reference to the terms of the covenant as intimated (Psalm
105:45). It is introduced by praise to God for the wonders of His mercy, and
concluded by a supplication for His favor to His afflicted people, and a
doxology.
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