Psalm 106–107

PSALM 106

Remember Me, O Yahweh

¹¹Praise Yah!

Oh ^agive thanks to Yahweh, for He ^bis good;

For ^cHis lovingkindness endures forever.

²Who can speak of the ^amighty deeds of Yahweh,

Or can make all His praise to be heard?

³How blessed are those who keep ¹justice,

²And he who ^adoes righteousness at all times!

⁴Remember me, O Yahweh, in Your ^afavor ¹toward Your people;

Visit me with Your salvation,

⁵That I may see the ^agoodness of Your chosen ones,

That I may ^brejoice in the gladness of Your nation,

That I may ^cboast with Your ¹inheritance.

^6aWe have sinned ^bwith our fathers,

We have committed iniquity, we have acted wickedly.

⁷Our fathers in Egypt did not consider Your wondrous deeds;

They ^adid not remember Your abundant lovingkindnesses,

But they ^brebelled by the sea, at the ¹Red Sea.

⁸Yet He saved them ^afor the sake of His name,

That He might ^bmake His might known.

⁹Thus He ^arebuked the ¹Red Sea and it ^bdried up,

And He ^cled them through the deeps, as through the wilderness.

¹⁰So He ^asaved them from the ¹hand of the one who hated them,

And ^bredeemed them from the ²hand of the enemy.

^11aThe waters covered their adversaries;

Not one of them was left.

¹²Then they ^abelieved His words;

They ^bsang His praise.

¹³They quickly ^aforgot His works;

They ^bdid not wait for His counsel,

¹⁴But ^acraved intensely in the wilderness,

And ^bput God to the test in the wasteland.

¹⁵So He ^agave them their request,

But ^bsent a ¹wasting disease against their lives.

¹⁶Then they became ^aenvious of Moses in the camp,

And of Aaron, the holy one of Yahweh,

¹⁷The ^aearth opened and swallowed up Dathan,

And covered up the ¹company of Abiram.

¹⁸And a ^afire burned up in their company;

The flame consumed the wicked.

¹⁹They ^amade a calf in Horeb

And worshiped a molten image.

²⁰Thus they ^aexchanged their glory

For the image of an ox that eats grass.

²¹They ^aforgot God their Savior,

Who had done ^bgreat things in Egypt,

^22aWondrous deeds in the land of Ham

And awesome things by the ¹Red Sea.

²³Therefore ^aHe said that He would destroy them,

Had not ^bMoses His chosen one stood in the breach before Him,

To turn away His wrath from ¹eradicating them.

²⁴Then they ^adespised the ^bpleasant land;

They ^cdid not believe in His word,

²⁵But ^agrumbled in their tents;

They did not listen to the voice of Yahweh.

²⁶So He ^1aswore to them

To make them fall in the wilderness,

²⁷And to ^amake their seed fall among the nations

And to ^bscatter them in the lands.

²⁸They then ^ajoined themselves to ¹Baal-peor,

And ate ^bsacrifices offered to the dead.

²⁹Thus they ^aprovoked Him to anger with their actions,

And the plague broke out among them.

³⁰Then Phinehas ^astood up and interceded,

And so the ^bplague was checked.

³¹And it was ^acounted to him for righteousness,

From generation to generation forever.

³²They also ^aprovoked Him to wrath at the waters of ¹Meribah,

So that it ^bwent badly with Moses on their account;

³³Because they ^awere rebellious against ¹His Spirit,

He spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴They ^adid not destroy the peoples,

As ^bYahweh commanded them,

³⁵But ^athey mingled with the nations

And learned their works,

³⁶And ^aserved their idols,

^bWhich became a snare to them.

³⁷They ^asacrificed their sons and their daughters to the ^bdemons,

³⁸And they shed ^ainnocent blood,

The blood of their ^bsons and their daughters,

Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;

And the land was ^cpolluted with the blood.

³⁹Thus they became ^aunclean in their works,

And ^bplayed the harlot in their actions.

⁴⁰So the ^aanger of Yahweh was kindled against His people

And He ^babhorred His ^1cinheritance.

⁴¹Then ^aHe gave them into the hand of the ¹nations,

And those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴²Their enemies ^aoppressed them,

And they were subdued under their hand.

⁴³Many times He would ^adeliver them;

But they were rebellious in their ^bcounsel,

And so they ^csank down in their iniquity.

⁴⁴Nevertheless He looked upon their distress

When He ^aheard their cry of lamentation;

⁴⁵And He ^aremembered for them His covenant,

And ^1brelented ^caccording to the abundance of His lovingkindness.

⁴⁶He also made them ^aobjects of compassion

In the presence of all their captors.

^47aSave us, O Yahweh our God,

And ^bgather us from among the nations,

To give thanks to Your holy name

And ^crevel in Your praise.

^48aBlessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,

From everlasting to everlasting.

And let all the people say, “Amen.”

¹Praise Yah!

BOOK 5

PSALM 107

Yahweh Saves in Times of Trouble

¹Oh ^agive thanks to Yahweh, for ^bHe is good,

For His lovingkindness endures forever.

²Let ^athe redeemed of Yahweh say so,

Whom He has ^bredeemed from the hand of the adversary

³And ^agathered from the lands,

From the east and from the west,

From the north and from the ¹south.

⁴They ^awandered in the wilderness along the way of the wasteland;

They did not find an inhabited ^bcity.

⁵Hungry ¹and thirsty,

Their ^asoul fainted within them.

⁶Then they ^acried out to Yahweh in their trouble;

He delivered them out of their distresses.

⁷He led them by a ^1astraight way,

To go to ^ban inhabited city.

^8aLet them give thanks to Yahweh for His lovingkindness,

And for His wondrous deeds to the sons of men!

⁹For He has ^asatisfied the ¹thirsty soul,

And the ^bhungry soul He has filled with what is good.

¹⁰There were those who ^ainhabited darkness and the shadow of death,

^bPrisoners in affliction and irons,

¹¹Because they had ^arebelled against the words of God

And ^bspurned the ^ccounsel of the Most High.

¹²So He subdued their heart with labor;

They stumbled and there was ^anone to help.

¹³Then they ^acried out to Yahweh in their trouble;

He saved them out of their distresses.

¹⁴He ^abrought them out of darkness and the shadow of death

And ^bbroke their bands apart.

^15aLet them give thanks to Yahweh for His lovingkindness,

And for His wondrous deeds to the sons of men!

¹⁶For He has ^ashattered the doors of bronze

And cut through the bars of iron.

¹⁷¹Ignorant fools, because of their way of transgression,

And ^abecause of their iniquities, were afflicted.

¹⁸Their ^asoul abhorred all kinds of food,

And they ^breached the ^cgates of death.

¹⁹Then they cried out to Yahweh in their trouble;

He saved them out of their distresses.

²⁰He ^asent His word and ^bhealed them,

And ^cprovided them escape from their ¹destructions.

^21aLet them give thanks to Yahweh for His lovingkindness,

And for His wondrous deeds to the sons of men!

²²Let them also offer ^asacrifices of thanksgiving,

And ^brecount His works with joyful singing.

²³Those who ^ago down to the sea in ships,

Who do business on many waters;

²⁴They have seen the works of Yahweh,

And His wondrous deeds in the deep.

²⁵He ^aspoke and set up a ^bstormy wind,

Which ^craised up the waves ¹of the sea.

²⁶They went up to the heavens, they went down to the depths;

Their soul ^amelted away in the ¹calamity.

²⁷They staggered and ^aswayed like a drunken man,

And all their wisdom was swallowed up.

²⁸Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble,

And He brought them out of their distresses.

²⁹He ^acaused the storm to stand still,

So that its waves were hushed.

³⁰Then they were glad because they were quiet,

So He led them to their desired haven.

^31aLet them give thanks to Yahweh for His lovingkindness,

And for His ^bwondrous deeds to the sons of men!

³²Let them ^aexalt Him also ^bin the assembly of the people,

And ^cpraise Him at the seat of the elders.

³³He ^1amakes rivers into a ²wilderness

And springs of water into a thirsty ground;

³⁴A ^afruitful land into a ^bsalt waste,

Because of the evil of those who inhabited it.

³⁵He ^amakes a wilderness into a pool of water

And a dry land into springs of water;

³⁶And there He causes the hungry to inhabit,

So that they may establish ^aan inhabited city,

³⁷And sow fields and ^aplant vineyards,

And produce a fruitful harvest.

³⁸Also He blesses them and they ^amultiply greatly,

And He ^bdoes not let their cattle decrease.

³⁹But when they ^adecrease and are ^bbowed down

Through oppression, evil, and sorrow,

⁴⁰He ^apours contempt upon nobles

And ^bmakes them wander ^cin a pathless void.

⁴¹But He ^asets the needy ¹securely on high away from affliction,

And ^bmakes his families like a flock.

⁴²The ^aupright see it and are glad;

But all ^bunrighteousness shuts its mouth.

⁴³Who is ^awise? Let him keep these things,

And carefully consider the ^blovingkindnesses of Yahweh.