Psalm 106:6–27

⁶We have sinned just as our ancestors did.

We have done wrong; we have done evil.

⁷Our ancestors in Egypt

did not learn from your miracles.

They did not remember all your kindnesses,

so they turned against you at the Red Sea.

⁸But the Lord saved them for his own sake,

to show his great power.

⁹He commanded the Red Sea, and it dried up.

He led them through the deep sea as if it were a desert.

¹⁰He saved them from those who hated them.

He saved them from their enemies,

¹¹and the water covered their foes.

Not one of them escaped.

¹²Then the people believed what the Lord said,

and they sang praises to him.

¹³But they quickly forgot what he had done;

they did not wait for his advice.

¹⁴They became greedy for food in the desert,

and they tested God there.

¹⁵So he gave them what they wanted,

but he also sent a terrible disease among them.

¹⁶The people in the camp were jealous of Moses

and of Aaron, the holy priest of the Lord.

¹⁷Then the ground opened up and swallowed Dathan

and closed over Abiram’s group.

¹⁸A fire burned among their followers,

and flames burned up the wicked.

¹⁹The people made a gold calf at Mount Sinai

and worshiped a metal statue.

²⁰They exchanged their glorious God

for a statue of a bull that eats grass.

²¹They forgot the God who saved them,

who had done great things in Egypt,

²²who had done miracles in Egypt ⁿ

and amazing things by the Red Sea.

²³So God said he would destroy them.

But Moses, his chosen one, stood before him

and stopped God’s anger from destroying them.

²⁴Then they refused to go into the beautiful land of Canaan;

they did not believe what God promised.

²⁵They grumbled in their tents

and did not obey the Lord.

²⁶So he swore to them

that they would die in the desert.

²⁷He said their children would be killed by other nations

and that they would be scattered among other countries.