Psalm 106–107

Psalm 106

¹Praise ye Jehovah.

Oh give thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good;

For his lovingkindness endureth for ever.

²Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah,

Or show forth all his praise?

³Blessed are they that keep justice,

And he that doeth righteousness at all times.

⁴Remember me, O Jehovah, with the favor that thou bearest unto thy people;

Oh visit me with thy salvation,

⁵That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen,

That I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation,

That I may glory with thine inheritance.

⁶We have sinned with our fathers,

We have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

⁷Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt;

They remembered not the multitude of thy lovingkindnesses,

But were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

⁸Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake,

That he might make his mighty power to be known.

⁹He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up:

So he led them through the depths, as through a wilderness.

¹⁰And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them,

And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹And the waters covered their adversaries;

There was not one of them left.

¹²Then believed they his words;

They sang his praise.

¹³They soon forgat his works;

They waited not for his counsel,

¹⁴But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,

And tempted God in the desert.

¹⁵And he gave them their request,

But sent leanness into their soul.

¹⁶They envied Moses also in the camp,

And Aaron the saint of Jehovah.

¹⁷The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,

And covered the company of Abiram.

¹⁸And a fire was kindled in their company;

The flame burned up the wicked.

¹⁹They made a calf in Horeb,

And worshipped a molten image.

²⁰Thus they changed their glory

For the likeness of an ox that eateth grass.

²¹They forgat God their Saviour,

Who had done great things in Egypt,

²²Wondrous works in the land of Ham,

And terrible things by the Red Sea.

²³Therefore he said that he would destroy them,

Had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach,

To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

²⁴Yea, they despised the pleasant land,

They believed not his word,

²⁵But murmured in their tents,

And hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah.

²⁶Therefore he sware unto them,

That he would overthrow them in the wilderness,

²⁷And that he would overthrow their seed among the nations,

And scatter them in the lands.

²⁸They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor,

And ate the sacrifices of the dead.

²⁹Thus they provoked him to anger with their doings;

And the plague brake in upon them.

³⁰Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment;

And so the plague was stayed.

³¹And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness,

Unto all generations for evermore.

³²They angered him also at the waters of Meribah,

So that it went ill with Moses for their sakes;

³³Because they were rebellious against his spirit,

And he spake unadvisedly with his lips.

³⁴They did not destroy the peoples,

As Jehovah commanded them,

³⁵But mingled themselves with the nations,

And learned their works,

³⁶And served their idols,

Which became a snare unto them.

³⁷Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,

³⁸And shed innocent blood,

Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters,

Whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan;

And the land was polluted with blood.

³⁹Thus were they defiled with their works,

And played the harlot in their doings.

⁴⁰Therefore was the wrath of Jehovah kindled against his people,

And he abhorred his inheritance.

⁴¹And he gave them into the hand of the nations;

And they that hated them ruled over them.

⁴²Their enemies also oppressed them,

And they were brought into subjection under their hand.

⁴³Many times did he deliver them;

But they were rebellious in their counsel,

And were brought low in their iniquity.

⁴⁴Nevertheless he regarded their distress,

When he heard their cry:

⁴⁵And he remembered for them his covenant,

And repented according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

⁴⁶He made them also to be pitied

Of all those that carried them captive.

⁴⁷Save us, O Jehovah our God,

And gather us from among the nations,

To give thanks unto thy holy name,

And to triumph in thy praise.

⁴⁸Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel,

From everlasting even to everlasting.

And let all the people say, Amen.

Praise ye Jehovah.

Psalm 107

¹O give thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good;

For his lovingkindness endureth for ever.

²Let the redeemed of Jehovah say so,

Whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the adversary,

³And gathered out of the lands,

From the east and from the west,

From the north and from the south.

⁴They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way;

They found no city of habitation.

⁵Hungry and thirsty,

Their soul fainted in them.

⁶Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble,

And he delivered them out of their distresses,

⁷He led them also by a straight way,

That they might go to a city of habitation.

⁸Oh that men would praise Jehovah for his lovingkindness,

And for his wonderful works to the children of men!

⁹For he satisfieth the longing soul,

And the hungry soul he filleth with good.

¹⁰Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,

Being bound in affliction and iron,

¹¹Because they rebelled against the words of God,

And contemned the counsel of the Most High:

¹²Therefore he brought down their heart with labor;

They fell down, and there was none to help.

¹³Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble,

And he saved them out of their distresses.

¹⁴He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death,

And brake their bonds in sunder.

¹⁵Oh that men would praise Jehovah for his lovingkindness,

And for his wonderful works to the children of men!

¹⁶For he hath broken the gates of brass,

And cut the bars of iron in sunder.

¹⁷Fools because of their transgression,

And because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

¹⁸Their soul abhorreth all manner of food;

And they draw near unto the gates of death.

¹⁹Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble,

And he saveth them out of their distresses.

²⁰He sendeth his word, and healeth them,

And delivereth them from their destructions.

²¹Oh that men would praise Jehovah for his lovingkindness,

And for his wonderful works to the children of men!

²²And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving,

And declare his works with singing.

²³They that go down to the sea in ships,

That do business in great waters;

²⁴These see the works of Jehovah,

And his wonders in the deep.

²⁵For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind,

Which lifteth up the waves thereof.

²⁶They mount up to the heavens, they go down again to the depths:

Their soul melteth away because of trouble.

²⁷They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man,

And are at their wits’ end.

²⁸Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble,

And he bringeth them out of their distresses.

²⁹He maketh the storm a calm,

So that the waves thereof are still.

³⁰Then are they glad because they are quiet;

So he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

³¹Oh that men would praise Jehovah for his lovingkindness,

And for his wonderful works to the children of men!

³²Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people,

And praise him in the seat of the elders.

³³He turneth rivers into a wilderness,

And watersprings into a thirsty ground;

³⁴A fruitful land into a salt desert,

For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

³⁵He turneth a wilderness into a pool of water,

And a dry land into watersprings.

³⁶And there he maketh the hungry to dwell,

That they may prepare a city of habitation,

³⁷And sow fields, and plant vineyards,

And get them fruits of increase.

³⁸He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly;

And he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.

³⁹Again, they are diminished and bowed down

Through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

⁴⁰He poureth contempt upon princes,

And causeth them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.

⁴¹Yet setteth he the needy on high from affliction,

And maketh him families like a flock.

⁴²The upright shall see it, and be glad;

And all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

⁴³Whoso is wise will give heed to these things;

And they will consider the lovingkindnesses of Jehovah.