Psalm 105–106

PSALM 105

The Lord’s Wonderful Works in Behalf of Israel.

¹Oh ^agive thanks to the Lord, ^bcall upon His name;

^cMake known His deeds among the peoples.

²Sing to Him, ^asing praises to Him;

^1bSpeak of all His ²wonders.

³¹Glory in His holy name;

Let the ^aheart of those who seek the Lord be glad.

⁴Seek the Lord and ^aHis strength;

^bSeek His face continually.

⁵Remember His ^1awonders which He has done,

His marvels and the ^bjudgments ²uttered by His mouth,

⁶O seed of ^aAbraham, His servant,

O sons of ^bJacob, His ^cchosen ones!

⁷He is the Lord our God;

His ^ajudgments are in all the earth.

⁸He has ^aremembered His covenant forever,

The word which He commanded to a ^bthousand generations,

⁹The ^acovenant which He made with Abraham,

And His ^boath to Isaac.

¹⁰Then He ^aconfirmed it to Jacob for a statute,

To Israel as an everlasting covenant,

¹¹Saying, “^aTo you I will give the land of Canaan

As the ^1bportion of your inheritance,”

¹²When they were only a ^afew men in number,

Very few, and ^bstrangers in it.

¹³And they wandered about from nation to nation,

From one kingdom to another people.

¹⁴He ^apermitted no man to oppress them,

And He ^breproved kings for their sakes:

¹⁵“^aDo not touch My anointed ones,

And do My prophets no harm.”

¹⁶And He ^acalled for a famine upon the land;

He ^bbroke the whole staff of bread.

¹⁷He ^asent a man before them,

Joseph, who was ^bsold as a slave.

¹⁸They afflicted his ^afeet with fetters,

¹He himself was laid in irons;

¹⁹Until the time that his ^aword came to pass,

The word of the Lord ^1btested him.

²⁰The ^aking sent and released him,

The ruler of peoples, and set him free.

²¹He ^amade him lord of his house

And ruler over all his possessions,

²²To ¹imprison his princes ^2aat will,

That he might teach his elders wisdom.

^23aIsrael also came into Egypt;

Thus Jacob ^bsojourned in the land of Ham.

²⁴And He ^acaused His people to be very fruitful,

And made them stronger than their adversaries.

²⁵He ^aturned their heart to hate His people,

To ^bdeal craftily with His servants.

²⁶He ^asent Moses His servant,

And ^bAaron, whom He had chosen.

²⁷They ^1aperformed His wondrous acts among them,

And miracles in the land of Ham.

²⁸He ^asent darkness and made it dark;

And they did not ^brebel against His words.

²⁹He ^aturned their waters into blood

And caused their fish to die.

³⁰Their land swarmed with ^afrogs

Even in the ^bchambers of their kings.

³¹He spoke, and there came a ^aswarm of flies

And ^bgnats in all their territory.

³²He ¹gave them ^ahail for rain,

And flaming fire in their land.

³³He ^astruck down their vines also and their fig trees,

And shattered the trees of their territory.

³⁴He spoke, and ^alocusts came,

And young locusts, even without number,

³⁵And ate up all vegetation in their land,

And ate up the fruit of their ground.

³⁶He also ^astruck down all the firstborn in their land,

The ^bfirst fruits of all their vigor.

³⁷Then He brought them out with ^asilver and gold,

And among His tribes there was not one who stumbled.

³⁸Egypt was ^aglad when they departed,

For the ^bdread of them had fallen upon them.

³⁹He spread a ^acloud for a ¹covering,

And ^bfire to illumine by night.

⁴⁰¹They ^aasked, and He brought ^bquail,

And satisfied them with the ^2cbread of heaven.

⁴¹He opened the ¹rock and ^awater flowed out;

²It ran in the dry places like a river.

⁴²For He ^aremembered His holy word

With Abraham His servant;

⁴³And He brought forth His people with joy,

His chosen ones with a joyful ^ashout.

⁴⁴He ^agave them also the lands of the ¹nations,

That they ^bmight take possession of the fruit of the peoples’ labor,

⁴⁵So that they might ^akeep His statutes

And observe His laws,

¹Praise ²the Lord!

PSALM 106

Israel’s Rebelliousness and the Lord’s Deliverances.

¹¹Praise ²the Lord!

Oh ^agive thanks to the Lord, for He ^bis good;

For ^cHis lovingkindness is everlasting.

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

Or can show forth all His praise?

³How blessed are those who keep ¹justice,

²Who ^apractice righteousness at all times!

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

Visit me with Your salvation,

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

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

That I may ^cglory with Your ¹inheritance.

^6aWe have sinned ^1blike our fathers,

We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.

⁷Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your ¹wonders;

They ^adid not remember ²Your abundant kindnesses,

But ^brebelled by the sea, at the ³Red Sea.

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

That He might ^bmake His power 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 hand 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 ^1btempted God in the desert.

¹⁵So He ^agave them their request,

But ^bsent a ¹wasting disease among them.

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

And of Aaron, the holy one of the Lord,

¹⁷The ^aearth opened and swallowed up Dathan,

And engulfed the ¹company of Abiram.

¹⁸And a ^afire blazed up in their ¹company;

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,

^221aWonders in the land of Ham

And awesome things by the ²Red 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 destroying 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 the Lord.

²⁶Therefore He ^1aswore to them

That He would cast them down in the wilderness,

²⁷And that He would ^acast their seed among the nations

And ^bscatter them in the lands.

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

And ate ^bsacrifices offered to the dead.

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

And the plague broke out among them.

³⁰Then Phinehas ^astood up and interposed,

And so the ^bplague was stayed.

³¹And it was ^areckoned to him for righteousness,

To all generations forever.

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

So that it ^bwent hard 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 ^bthe Lord commanded them,

³⁵But ^athey mingled with the nations

And learned their ¹practices,

³⁶And ^aserved their idols,

^bWhich became a snare to them.

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

³⁸And 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 ¹practices,

And ^bplayed the harlot in their deeds.

⁴⁰Therefore the ^aanger of the Lord 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 also ^aoppressed them,

And they were subdued under their ¹power.

⁴³Many times He would ^adeliver them;

They, however, were rebellious in their ^bcounsel,

And so ^csank down in their iniquity.

⁴⁴Nevertheless He looked upon their distress

When He ^aheard their cry;

⁴⁵And He ^aremembered His covenant for their sake,

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

⁴⁶He also made them ^aobjects of compassion

In the presence of all their captors.

^47aSave us, O Lord our God,

And ^bgather us from among the nations,

To give thanks to Your holy name

And ^1cglory in Your praise.

^48aBlessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,

From everlasting even to everlasting.

And let all the people say, “Amen.”

¹Praise ²the Lord!