Psalm 106:6–47

^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.