Psalm 106–107

Psalm 106

¹Praise ¹the Lord!

^aOh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!

For His mercy endures forever.

²Who can ²utter the mighty acts of the Lord?

Who can declare all His praise?

³Blessed are those who keep justice,

And ³he who ^bdoes righteousness at ^call times!

^4dRemember me, O Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people.

Oh, visit me with Your salvation,

⁵That I may see the benefit of Your chosen ones,

That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation,

That I may glory with ⁴Your inheritance.

^6eWe have sinned with our fathers,

We have committed iniquity,

We have done wickedly.

⁷Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders;

They did not remember the multitude of Your mercies,

^fBut rebelled by the sea—the Red Sea.

⁸Nevertheless He saved them for His name’s sake,

^gThat He might make His mighty power known.

^9hHe rebuked the Red Sea also, and it dried up;

So ⁱHe led them through the depths,

As through the wilderness.

¹⁰He ^jsaved them from the hand of him who hated them,

And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

^11kThe waters covered their enemies;

There was not one of them left.

^12lThen they believed His words;

They sang His praise.

^13mThey soon forgot His works;

They did not wait for His counsel,

¹⁴ⁿBut lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,

And tested God in the desert.

^15oAnd He gave them their request,

But ^psent leanness into their soul.

¹⁶When ^qthey envied Moses in the camp,

And Aaron the saint of the Lord,

^17rThe earth opened up and swallowed Dathan,

And covered the faction of Abiram.

^18sA fire was kindled in their company;

The flame burned up the wicked.

^19tThey made a calf in Horeb,

And worshiped the molded image.

²⁰Thus ^uthey changed their glory

Into the image of an ox that eats grass.

²¹They forgot God their Savior,

Who had done great things in Egypt,

²²Wondrous works in the land of Ham,

Awesome things by the Red Sea.

^23vTherefore He said that He would destroy them,

Had not Moses His chosen one ^wstood before Him in the breach,

To turn away His wrath, lest He destroy them.

²⁴Then they despised ^xthe pleasant land;

They ^ydid not believe His word,

^25zBut complained in their tents,

And did not heed the voice of the Lord.

^26aTherefore He raised up His hand in an oath against them,

^bTo ⁵overthrow them in the wilderness,

^27cTo ⁶overthrow their descendants among the ⁷nations,

And to scatter them in the lands.

^28dThey joined themselves also to Baal of Peor,

And ate sacrifices ⁸made to the dead.

²⁹Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds,

And the plague broke out among them.

^30eThen Phinehas stood up and intervened,

And the plague was stopped.

³¹And that was accounted to him ^ffor righteousness

To all generations forevermore.

^32gThey angered Him also at the waters of ⁹strife,

^hSo that it went ill with Moses on account of them;

³³ⁱBecause they rebelled against His Spirit,

So that he spoke rashly with his lips.

^34jThey did not destroy the peoples,

^kConcerning whom the Lord had commanded them,

^35lBut they mingled with the Gentiles

And learned their works;

^36mThey served their idols,

ⁿWhich became a snare to them.

^37oThey even sacrificed their sons

And their daughters to ^pdemons,

³⁸And shed innocent blood,

The blood of their sons and daughters,

Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;

And ^qthe land was polluted with blood.

³⁹Thus they ¹were ^rdefiled by their own works,

And ^splayed ²the harlot by their own deeds.

⁴⁰Therefore ^tthe wrath of the Lord was kindled against His people,

So that He abhorred ^uHis own inheritance.

⁴¹And ^vHe gave them into the hand of the Gentiles,

And those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴²Their enemies also oppressed them,

And they were brought into subjection under their hand.

^43wMany times He delivered them;

But they rebelled in their counsel,

And were brought low for their iniquity.

⁴⁴Nevertheless He regarded their affliction,

When ^xHe heard their cry;

^45yAnd for their sake He remembered His covenant,

And ^zrelented ^aaccording to the multitude of His mercies.

^46bHe also made them to be pitied

By all those who carried them away captive.

^47cSave us, O Lord our God,

And gather us from among the Gentiles,

To give thanks to Your holy name,

To triumph in Your praise.

^48dBlessed be the Lord God of Israel

From everlasting to everlasting!

And let all the people say, “Amen!”

³Praise the Lord!

Book Five: Psalms 107–150

Psalm 107

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

For His ¹mercy endures forever.

²Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,

Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy,

³And ^bgathered out of the lands,

From the east and from the west,

From the north and from the south.

⁴They wandered in ^cthe wilderness in a desolate way;

They found no city to dwell in.

⁵Hungry and thirsty,

Their soul fainted in them.

^6dThen they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,

And He delivered them out of their distresses.

⁷And He led them forth by the ^eright way,

That they might go to a city for a dwelling place.

^8fOh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness,

And for His wonderful works to the children of men!

⁹For ^gHe satisfies the longing soul,

And fills the hungry soul with goodness.

¹⁰Those who ^hsat in darkness and in the shadow of death,

ⁱBound ²in affliction and irons—

¹¹Because they ^jrebelled against the words of God,

And ³despised ^kthe counsel of the Most High,

¹²Therefore He brought down their heart with labor;

They fell down, and there was ^lnone to help.

¹³Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,

And He saved them out of their distresses.

^14mHe brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death,

And broke their chains in pieces.

¹⁵Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness,

And for His wonderful works to the children of men!

¹⁶For He has ⁿbroken the gates of bronze,

And cut the bars of iron in two.

¹⁷Fools, ^obecause of their transgression,

And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.

^18pTheir soul abhorred all manner of food,

And they ^qdrew near to the gates of death.

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

And He saved them out of their distresses.

^20rHe sent His word and ^shealed them,

And ^tdelivered them from their destructions.

²¹Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness,

And for His wonderful works to the children of men!

^22uLet them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving,

And ^vdeclare His works with ⁴rejoicing.

²³Those who go down to the sea in ships,

Who do business on great waters,

²⁴They see the works of the Lord,

And His wonders in the deep.

²⁵For He commands and ^wraises the stormy wind,

Which lifts up the waves of the sea.

²⁶They mount up to the heavens,

They go down again to the depths;

^xTheir soul melts because of trouble.

²⁷They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man,

And ⁵are at their wits’ end.

²⁸Then they cry out to the Lord in their trouble,

And He brings them out of their distresses.

^29yHe calms the storm,

So that its waves are still.

³⁰Then they are glad because they are quiet;

So He guides them to their desired haven.

^31zOh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness,

And for His wonderful works to the children of men!

³²Let them exalt Him also ^ain the assembly of the people,

And praise Him in the company of the elders.

³³He ^bturns rivers into a wilderness,

And the watersprings into dry ground;

³⁴A ^cfruitful land into ⁶barrenness,

For the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

^35dHe turns a wilderness into pools of water,

And dry land into watersprings.

³⁶There He makes the hungry dwell,

That they may establish a city for a dwelling place,

³⁷And sow fields and plant vineyards,

That they may yield a fruitful harvest.

^38eHe also blesses them, and they multiply greatly;

And He does not let their cattle ^fdecrease.

³⁹When they are ^gdiminished and brought low

Through oppression, affliction and sorrow,

^40hHe pours contempt on princes,

And causes them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way;

⁴¹ⁱYet He sets the poor on high, far from affliction,

And ^jmakes their families like a flock.

^42kThe righteous see it and rejoice,

And all ^liniquity stops its mouth.

^43mWhoever is wise will observe these things,

And they will understand the lovingkindness of the Lord.