Psalm 106:6–27

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.