Psalm 106:6–46

^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.