Psalm 105:27–137:5

27 They 1aperformed His wondrous acts among them,

And miracles in the land of Ham.

28 He asent darkness and made it dark;

And they did not brebel against His words.

29 He aturned their waters into blood

And caused their fish to die.

30 Their land swarmed with afrogs

Even in the bchambers of their kings.

31 He spoke, and there came a aswarm of flies

And bgnats in all their territory.

32 He 1gave them ahail for rain,

And flaming fire in their land.

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

And shattered the trees of their territory.

34 He spoke, and alocusts came,

And young locusts, even without number,

35 And ate up all vegetation in their land,

And ate up the fruit of their ground.

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

The bfirst fruits of all their vigor.

37 Then He brought them out with asilver and gold,

And among His tribes there was not one who stumbled.

38 Egypt was aglad when they departed,

For the bdread of them had fallen upon them.

39 He spread a acloud for a 1covering,

And bfire to illumine by night.

40 1They aasked, and He brought bquail,

And satisfied them with the 2cbread of heaven.

41 He opened the 1rock and awater flowed out;

2It ran in the dry places like a river.

42 For He aremembered His holy word

With Abraham His servant;

43 And He brought forth His people with joy,

His chosen ones with a joyful ashout.

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

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

45 So that they might akeep His statutes

And observe His laws,

1Praise 2the Lord!

PSALM 106

Israel’s Rebelliousness and the Lord’s Deliverances.

1 1Praise 2the Lord!

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

For cHis lovingkindness is everlasting.

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

Or can show forth all His praise?

3 How blessed are those who keep 1justice,

2Who apractice righteousness at all times!

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

Visit me with Your salvation,

5 That 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.

6 aWe have sinned 1blike our fathers,

We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.

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

They adid not remember 2Your abundant kindnesses,

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

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

That He might bmake His power known.

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

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

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

And bredeemed them from the 1hand of the enemy.

11 aThe waters covered their adversaries;

Not one of them was left.

12 Then they abelieved His words;

They bsang His praise.

13 They quickly aforgot His works;

They bdid not wait for His counsel,

14 But acraved intensely in the wilderness,

And 1btempted God in the desert.

15 So He agave them their request,

But bsent a 1wasting disease among them.

16 When they became aenvious of Moses in the camp,

And of Aaron, the holy one of the Lord,

17 The aearth opened and swallowed up Dathan,

And engulfed the 1company of Abiram.

18 And a afire blazed up in their 1company;

The flame consumed the wicked.

19 They amade a calf in Horeb

And worshiped a molten image.

20 Thus they aexchanged their glory

For the image of an ox that eats grass.

21 They aforgot God their Savior,

Who had done bgreat things in Egypt,

22 1aWonders in the land of Ham

And awesome things by the 2Red Sea.

23 Therefore 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.

24 Then they adespised the bpleasant land;

They cdid not believe in His word,

25 But agrumbled in their tents;

They did not listen to the voice of the Lord.

26 Therefore He 1aswore to them

That He would cast them down in the wilderness,

27 And that He would acast their seed among the nations

And bscatter them in the lands.

28 They ajoined themselves also to 1Baal-peor,

And ate bsacrifices offered to the dead.

29 Thus they aprovoked Him to anger with their deeds,

And the plague broke out among them.

30 Then Phinehas astood up and interposed,

And so the bplague was stayed.

31 And it was areckoned to him for righteousness,

To all generations forever.

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

So that it bwent hard with Moses on their account;

33 Because they awere rebellious against 1His Spirit,

He spoke rashly with his lips.

34 They adid not destroy the peoples,

As bthe Lord commanded them,

35 But athey mingled with the nations

And learned their 1practices,

36 And aserved their idols,

bWhich became a snare to them.

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

38 And 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.

39 Thus they became aunclean in their 1practices,

And bplayed the harlot in their deeds.

40 Therefore the aanger of the Lord was kindled against His people

And He babhorred His 1cinheritance.

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

And those who hated them ruled over them.

42 Their enemies also aoppressed them,

And they were subdued under their 1power.

43 Many times He would adeliver them;

They, however, were rebellious in their bcounsel,

And so csank down in their iniquity.

44 Nevertheless He looked upon their distress

When He aheard their cry;

45 And He aremembered His covenant for their sake,

And 1brelented caccording to the greatness of His lovingkindness.

46 He also made them aobjects of compassion

In the presence of all their captors.

47 aSave us, O Lord our God,

And bgather us from among the nations,

To give thanks to Your holy name

And 1cglory in Your praise.

48 aBlessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,

From everlasting even to everlasting.

And let all the people say, “Amen.”

1Praise 2the Lord!

BOOK 5

PSALM 107

The Lord Delivers Men from Manifold Troubles.

1 Oh agive thanks to the Lord, for bHe is good,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

2 Let athe redeemed of the Lord say so,

Whom He has bredeemed from the hand of the adversary

3 And agathered from the lands,

From the east and from the west,

From the north and from the 1south.

4 They awandered in the wilderness in a 1desert region;

They did not find a way to 2an inhabited bcity.

5 They were hungry 1and thirsty;

Their asoul fainted within them.

6 Then they acried out to the Lord in their trouble;

He delivered them out of their distresses.

7 He led them also by a 1astraight way,

To go to 2ban inhabited city.

8 aLet them give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness,

And for His 1wonders to the sons of men!

9 For He has asatisfied the 1thirsty soul,

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

10 There were those who adwelt in darkness and in the shadow of death,

bPrisoners in 1misery and 2chains,

11 Because they had arebelled against the words of God

And bspurned the ccounsel of the Most High.

12 Therefore He humbled their heart with labor;

They stumbled and there was anone to help.

13 Then they acried out to the Lord in their trouble;

He saved them out of their distresses.

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

And bbroke their bands apart.

15 aLet them give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness,

And for His 1wonders to the sons of men!

16 For He has ashattered gates of bronze

And cut bars of iron asunder.

17 Fools, because of 1their rebellious way,

And abecause of their iniquities, were afflicted.

18 Their asoul abhorred all kinds of food,

And they bdrew near to the cgates of death.

19 Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble;

He saved them out of their distresses.

20 He asent His word and bhealed them,

And cdelivered them from their 1destructions.

21 aLet them give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness,

And for His 1wonders to the sons of men!

22 Let them also offer asacrifices of thanksgiving,

And btell of His works with joyful singing.

23 Those who ago down to the sea in ships,

Who do business on great waters;

24 They have seen the works of the Lord,

And His 1wonders in the deep.

25 For He aspoke and raised up a bstormy wind,

Which clifted up the waves 1of the sea.

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

Their soul amelted away in their misery.

27 They reeled and astaggered like a drunken man,

And 1were at their wits’ end.

28 Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,

And He brought them out of their distresses.

29 He acaused the storm to be still,

So that the waves 1of the sea were hushed.

30 Then they were glad because they were quiet,

So He guided them to their desired haven.

31 aLet them give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness,

And for His 1bwonders to the sons of men!

32 Let them aextol Him also bin the congregation of the people,

And cpraise Him at the seat of the elders.

33 He 1achanges rivers into a 2wilderness

And springs of water into a thirsty ground;

34 A afruitful land into a bsalt waste,

Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

35 He 1achanges a 2wilderness into a pool of water

And a dry land into springs of water;

36 And there He makes the hungry to dwell,

So that they may establish 1aan inhabited city,

37 And sow fields and aplant vineyards,

And 1gather a fruitful harvest.

38 Also He blesses them and they amultiply greatly,

And He bdoes not let their cattle decrease.

39 When they are adiminished and bbowed down

Through oppression, misery and sorrow,

40 He apours contempt upon 1princes

And bmakes them wander cin a pathless waste.

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

And bmakes his families like a flock.

42 The aupright see it and are glad;

But all bunrighteousness shuts its mouth.

43 Who is awise? Let him give heed to these things,

And consider the blovingkindnesses of the Lord.

PSALM 108

God Praised and Supplicated to Give Victory.

A Song, a Psalm of David.

1 aMy heart is steadfast, O …