Psalm 106

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