Psalm 106–107

Praise to Yahweh for His Faithfulness in Israel’s History

106Praise Yah.^a Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,

for his loyal love is forever.

²Who can utter the mighty deeds of Yahweh,

or proclaim all his praise?

³Blessed are those who observe justice,

he who does righteousness at all times.

⁴Remember me, O Yahweh, when you show favor to your people.

Look after me when you deliver,

⁵that I may see the good done your chosen ones,

to be glad in the joy of your nation,

to glory together with your inheritance.

⁶We have sinned along with our ancestors.^b

We have committed iniquity; we have incurred guilt.

⁷Our ancestors^c in Egypt did not understand your wonderful works.

They did not remember your many acts of loyal love,

and so they rebelled by the sea at the Red Sea.^d

⁸Yet he saved them for the sake of his name,

to make known his might.

⁹So he rebuked the Red Sea,^e and it dried up,

and he led them through the deep as through a desert.

¹⁰Thus he saved them from the hand of the hater

and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹But waters covered their adversaries;

not one of them survived.

¹²Then they believed his words;

they sang his praise.

¹³They quickly forgot his works;

they did not wait for his counsel.

¹⁴And they craved intensely^f in the wilderness,

and tested God in the desert.

¹⁵So he gave to them their request,

but he sent leanness into their souls.^g

¹⁶And they were jealous of Moses in the camp,

and of Aaron, the holy one of Yahweh.

¹⁷The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,

and it covered over the gang of Abiram.

¹⁸Also fire burned in their assembly;

the flame devoured the wicked.

¹⁹They made a calf at Horeb

and bowed down to a cast image.

²⁰And so they exchanged their glory

for an image of an ox that eats grass.

²¹They forgot God their Savior,

who had done great things in Egypt,

²²wonders in the land of Ham,

awesome deeds by the Red Sea.^h

²³So he said he would exterminate them,

had not Moses, his chosen one,

stood in the breach before him,

to reverse his wrath from destroying them.

²⁴Then they refused the desirable land;

they did not believe his word,

²⁵but grumbled in their tents.

They did not obey the voice of Yahweh.

²⁶So he made an oathⁱ against them,

to make them drop in the wilderness,

²⁷and to disperse^j their descendants^k among the nations

and to scatter them among the lands.

²⁸They also attached themselves to Baal of Peor,

and they ate sacrifices offered to the dead.^l

²⁹Thus they provoked to anger by their deeds,

and a plague broke out among them.

³⁰Then Phinehas stood up and intervened,

and so the plague was stopped,

³¹and it was reckoned to him as righteousness

throughout all generations.^m

³²They also angered God at the waters of Meribah,

and it went badly for Moses on account of them,

³³because they rebelled against his Spirit,ⁿ

and he spoke thoughtlessly with his lips.

³⁴They did not exterminate the peoples,

as Yahweh had commanded them, ^o

³⁵but they mingled with the nations

and learned their works,

³⁶and served their idols,

which became^p a snare to them.

³⁷They even sacrificed their sons and daughters

to the demons,

³⁸and they poured out innocent blood,

the blood of their sons and daughters,

whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,

and so the land was defiled with the blood.^q

³⁹And they became unclean by their works,

and were unfaithful in their deeds.

⁴⁰So Yahweh’s anger burned against his people,

and he abhorred his inheritance.

⁴¹Then he gave them into the hand of the nations,

and those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴²And their enemies oppressed them,

and they were subdued under their hand.

⁴³Many times he delivered them,

but they rebelled in their counsel,

and were brought low by their iniquity.

⁴⁴Yet he looked upon their distress

when he heard their cry.

⁴⁵And he remembered his covenant with them,

and relented based on the abundance of his loyal love.

⁴⁶And he let them find compassion^r

before all their captors.

⁴⁷Save us, O Yahweh our God,

and gather us from the nations,

so that we may give thanks to your holy name

and boast in your praise.

⁴⁸Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel,

from everlasting and to everlasting.

And let all the people say, “Amen!”

Praise Yah.^s

Thanksgiving to Yahweh for His of Deliverance

107Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,

for his loyal love is forever.

²Let the redeemed of Yahweh declare^a it,

those whom he has redeemed from the hand of the enemy

³and gathered from the lands,

from east and from west, from north and from south.^b

⁴They wandered in the wilderness, in a desert.

They could find no way^c to a city to inhabit.

⁵Hungry and thirsty,

their soul grew faint within them.

⁶Then they cried out to Yahweh in their trouble.

He delivered them from their distresses

⁷and led them by a straight way

to get to a city to inhabit.

⁸Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love,

and his wonderful deeds for the children of humankind,

⁹for he satisfies the longing soul,^d

and the hungry soul he fills with good.

¹⁰Those who sat in darkness and gloom,

prisoners of misery and iron—

¹¹because they rebelled against the words of God

and spurned the counsel of the Most High,

¹²he therefore humbled their heart with trouble.

They stumbled and there was no helper.

¹³Then they called to Yahweh for help in their trouble;

he saved them from their distresses.

¹⁴He brought them out of darkness and gloom,

and tore off their bonds.

¹⁵Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love

and his wonderful deeds for the children of humankind,

¹⁶for he shatters the doors of bronze,

and cuts through the bars of iron.

¹⁷Fools, because of their rebellious way

and their iniquities, were afflicted.

¹⁸Their soul abhorred all food,

and they approached the gates of death.

¹⁹Then they called to Yahweh for help in their trouble.

He saved them from their distresses.

²⁰He sent his word and healed them,

and he delivered them from their pits.^e

²¹Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love,

and his wonderful deeds for the children of humankind,

²²and let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving,

and tell of his works with rejoicing.

²³Those who went down to the sea in ships,

doing business on the high seas;^f

²⁴they saw the works of Yahweh,

and his wonderful deeds in the deep.

²⁵For he spoke and raised up a stormy wind,

and it whipped up its waves.

²⁶They rose to the heavens; they plunged to the depths.

Their soul melted in their calamity.

²⁷They reeled and staggered like a drunkard,

and they were at their wits’ end.^g

²⁸Then they cried out to Yahweh in their trouble,

and he brought them out of their distresses.

²⁹He made the storm be still

and their waves became calm.

³⁰Then they were glad because they grew silent,

so he guided them to their desired harbor.

³¹Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love

and his wonderful deeds for the children of humankind,

³²and let them exalt him in the congregation of the people,

and praise him in the assembly of the elders.

³³He turns rivers into a wilderness

and springs of water into thirsty ground,

³⁴a fruitful land into a salty place,

because of the evil of its inhabitants.

³⁵He turns a wilderness into a pool of water

and a dry land into springs of water.

³⁶And he settles the hungry there,

so that they may establish a city to inhabit,

³⁷and sow fields and plant vineyards,

that they may yield fruit at harvest.^h

³⁸And he blesses them and they multiply greatly,

and he does not let their cattle become few.

³⁹When they become few and they are bent down

from the oppression of calamity and grief,

⁴⁰he pours contempt on princes

and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

⁴¹But he protectsⁱ the needy from misery,

and he makes their families like a flock.

⁴²The upright see it and are glad,

and all wickedness shuts its mouth.

⁴³Whoever is wise, then let him observe these things,

and let them consider Yahweh’s acts of loyal love.