Psalm 106:6–46

^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.