Psalm 106–107

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!

BOOK 5

PSALM 107

The Lord Delivers Men from Manifold Troubles.

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

For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

²Let ^athe redeemed of the Lord 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 in a ¹desert region;

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

⁵They were hungry ¹and thirsty;

Their ^asoul fainted within them.

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

He delivered them out of their distresses.

⁷He led them also by a ^1astraight way,

To go to ^2ban inhabited city.

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

And for His ¹wonders 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 ^adwelt in darkness and in the shadow of death,

^bPrisoners in ¹misery and ²chains,

¹¹Because they had ^arebelled against the words of God

And ^bspurned the ^ccounsel of the Most High.

¹²Therefore He humbled their heart with labor;

They stumbled and there was ^anone to help.

¹³Then they ^acried out to the Lord 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 the Lord for His lovingkindness,

And for His ¹wonders to the sons of men!

¹⁶For He has ^ashattered gates of bronze

And cut bars of iron asunder.

¹⁷Fools, because of ¹their rebellious way,

And ^abecause of their iniquities, were afflicted.

¹⁸Their ^asoul abhorred all kinds of food,

And they ^bdrew near to the ^cgates of death.

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

He saved them out of their distresses.

²⁰He ^asent His word and ^bhealed them,

And ^cdelivered them from their ¹destructions.

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

And for His ¹wonders to the sons of men!

²²Let them also offer ^asacrifices of thanksgiving,

And ^btell of His works with joyful singing.

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

Who do business on great waters;

²⁴They have seen the works of the Lord,

And His ¹wonders in the deep.

²⁵For He ^aspoke and raised up a ^bstormy wind,

Which ^clifted up the waves ¹of the sea.

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

Their soul ^amelted away in their misery.

²⁷They reeled and ^astaggered like a drunken man,

And ¹were at their wits’ end.

²⁸Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,

And He brought them out of their distresses.

²⁹He ^acaused the storm to be still,

So that the waves ¹of the sea were hushed.

³⁰Then they were glad because they were quiet,

So He guided them to their desired haven.

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

And for His ^1bwonders to the sons of men!

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

And ^cpraise Him at the seat of the elders.

³³He ^1achanges rivers into a ²wilderness

And springs of water into a thirsty ground;

³⁴A ^afruitful land into a ^bsalt waste,

Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

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

And a dry land into springs of water;

³⁶And there He makes the hungry to dwell,

So that they may establish ^1aan inhabited city,

³⁷And sow fields and ^aplant vineyards,

And ¹gather a fruitful harvest.

³⁸Also He blesses them and they ^amultiply greatly,

And He ^bdoes not let their cattle decrease.

³⁹When they are ^adiminished and ^bbowed down

Through oppression, misery and sorrow,

⁴⁰He ^apours contempt upon ¹princes

And ^bmakes them wander ^cin a pathless waste.

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 give heed to these things,

And consider the ^blovingkindnesses of the Lord.