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Psalm 106 - New International Version, 2011 bible

Psalm 106

¹Praise the LORD. [189] Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.

²Who can proclaim the mighty acts of the LORD or fully declare his praise?

³Blessed are those who act justly, who always do what is right.

⁴Remember me, LORD, when you show favor to your people, come to my aid when you save them,

⁵that I may enjoy the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may share in the joy of your nation and join your inheritance in giving praise.

⁶We have sinned, even as our ancestors did; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.

⁷When our ancestors were in Egypt, they gave no thought to your miracles; they did not remember your many kindnesses, and they rebelled by the sea, the Red Sea. [190]

⁸Yet he saved them for his name’s sake, to make his mighty power known.

⁹He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; he led them through the depths as through a desert.

¹⁰He saved them from the hand of the foe; from the hand of the enemy he redeemed them.

¹¹The waters covered their adversaries; not one of them survived.

¹²Then they believed his promises and sang his praise.

¹³But they soon forgot what he had done and did not wait for his plan to unfold.

¹⁴In the desert they gave in to their craving; in the wilderness they put God to the test.

¹⁵So he gave them what they asked for, but sent a wasting disease among them.

¹⁶In the camp they grew envious of Moses and of Aaron, who was consecrated to the LORD.

¹⁷The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it buried the company of Abiram.

¹⁸Fire blazed among their followers; a flame consumed the wicked.

¹⁹At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped an idol cast from metal.

²⁰They exchanged their glorious God for an image of a bull, which eats grass.

²¹They forgot the God who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt,

²²miracles in the land of Ham and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.

²³So he said he would destroy them — had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him to keep his wrath from destroying them.

²⁴Then they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe his promise.

²⁵They grumbled in their tents and did not obey the LORD.

²⁶So he swore to them with uplifted hand that he would make them fall in the wilderness,

²⁷make their descendants fall among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

²⁸They yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods;

²⁹they aroused the LORD’s anger by their wicked deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

³⁰But Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was checked.

³¹This was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.

³²By the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them;

³³for they rebelled against the Spirit of God, and rash words came from Moses’ lips. [191]

³⁴They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,

³⁵but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.

³⁶They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.

³⁷They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to false gods.

³⁸They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was desecrated by their blood.

³⁹They defiled themselves by what they did; by their deeds they prostituted themselves.

⁴⁰Therefore the LORD was angry with his people and abhorred his inheritance.

⁴¹He gave them into the hands of the nations, and their foes ruled over them.

⁴²Their enemies oppressed them and subjected them to their power.

⁴³Many times he delivered them, but they were bent on rebellion and they wasted away in their sin.

⁴⁴Yet he took note of their distress when he heard their cry;

⁴⁵for their sake he remembered his covenant and out of his great love he relented.

⁴⁶He caused all who held them captive to show them mercy.

⁴⁷Save us, LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.

⁴⁸Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Praise the LORD.