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Psalms 106

¹Praise the LORD! Give thanks to the LORD, because he is good; his love is eternal.

²Who can tell all the great things he has done? Who can praise him enough?

³Happy are those who obey his commands, who always do what is right.

⁴Remember me, LORD, when you help your people; include me when you save them.

⁵Let me see the prosperity of your people and share in the happiness of your nation, in the glad pride of those who belong to you.

⁶We have sinned as our ancestors did; we have been wicked and evil.

⁷Our ancestors in Egypt did not understand God's wonderful acts; they forgot the many times he showed them his love, and they rebelled against the Almighty at the Red Sea.

⁸But he saved them, as he had promised, in order to show his great power.

⁹He gave a command to the Red Sea, and it dried up; he led his people across on dry land.

¹⁰He saved them from those who hated them; he rescued them from their enemies.

¹¹But the water drowned their enemies; not one of them was left.

¹²Then his people believed his promises and sang praises to him.

¹³But they quickly forgot what he had done and acted without waiting for his advice.

¹⁴They were filled with craving in the desert and put God to the test;

¹⁵so he gave them what they asked for, but also sent a terrible disease among them.

¹⁶There in the desert they were jealous of Moses and of Aaron, the LORD's holy servant.

¹⁷Then the earth opened up and swallowed Dathan and buried Abiram and his family;

¹⁸fire came down on their followers and burned up those wicked people.

¹⁹They made a gold bull-calf at Sinai and worshiped that idol;

²⁰they exchanged the glory of God for the image of an animal that eats grass.

²¹They forgot the God who had saved them by his mighty acts in Egypt.

²²What wonderful things he did there! What amazing things at the Red Sea!

²³When God said that he would destroy his people, his chosen servant, Moses, stood up against God and kept his anger from destroying them.

²⁴Then they rejected the pleasant land, because they did not believe God's promise.

²⁵They stayed in their tents and grumbled and would not listen to the LORD.

²⁶So he have them a solomn warning that he would make them die in the desert

²⁷and scatter their descendants among the heathen, letting them die in foreign countries.

²⁸Then at Peor, God's people joined in the worship of Baal and ate sacrifices offered to dead gods.

²⁹They stirred up the LORD's anger by their actions, and a terrible disease broke out among them.

³⁰But Phinehas stood up and punished the guilty, and the plague was stopped.

³¹This has been remembered in his favor ever since and will be for all time to come.

³²At the springs of Meribah the people made the LORD angry, and Moses was in trouble on their account.

³³They made him so bitter that he spoke without stopping to think.

³⁴They did not kill the heathen, as the LORD had commanded them to do,

³⁵but they intermarried with them and adopted their pagan ways.

³⁶God's people worshiped idols, and this caused their destruction.

³⁷They offered their own sons and daughters as sacrifices to the idols of Canaan.

³⁸They killed those innocent children, and the land was defiled by those murders.

³⁹They made themselves impure by their actions and were unfaithful to God.

⁴⁰So the LORD was angry with his people; he was disgusted with them.

⁴¹He abandoned them to the power of the heathen, and their enemies ruled over them.

⁴²They were oppressed by their enemies and were in complete subjection to them.

⁴³Many times the LORD rescued his people, but they chose to rebel against him and sank deeper into sin.

⁴⁴Yet the LORD heard them when they cried out, and he took notice of their distress.

⁴⁵For their sake he remembered his covenant, and because of his great love he relented.

⁴⁶He made all their oppressors feel sorry for them.

⁴⁷Save us, O LORD our God, and bring us back from among the nations, so that we may be thankful and praise your holy name.

⁴⁸Praise the LORD, the God of Israel; praise him now and forever! Let everyone say, "Amen!" Praise the LORD!