Psalm 106

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Psalm 106

Israel’s Unfaithfulness to God

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1} Hallelujah!
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good;
His faithful love endures forever.^(A)
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2} Who can declare the Lord’s mighty acts
or proclaim all the praise due Him?^(B)
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3} How happy are those who uphold justice,
who practice righteousness at all times.^(C)

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Remember me, Lord,
when You show favor to Your people.^(D)
Come to me with Your salvation

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so that I may enjoy the prosperity
of Your chosen ones,
rejoice in the joy of Your nation,
and boast about Your heritage.^(E)

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Both we and our fathers have sinned;
we have done wrong and have acted wickedly.^(F)

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Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp
the significance of Your wonderful works
or remember Your many acts of faithful love;
instead, they rebelled by the sea—the Red Sea.^(G)

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Yet He saved them because of His name,
to make His power known.^(H)

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He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;
He led them through the depths as through a desert.^(I)

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He saved them from the hand of the adversary;
He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.^(J)

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Water covered their foes;
not one of them remained.^(K)

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Then they believed His promises
and sang His praise.^(L)

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They soon forgot His works
and would not wait for His counsel.^(M)

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They were seized with craving in the wilderness
and tested God in the desert.^(N)

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He gave them what they asked for,
but sent a wasting disease among them.^(O)

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In the camp they were envious of Moses
and of Aaron, the Lord’s holy one.^(P)

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The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;
it covered the assembly of Abiram.^(Q)

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Fire blazed throughout their assembly;
flames consumed the wicked.^(R)

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At Horeb they made a calf
and worshiped the cast metal image.^(S)

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They exchanged their glory^(a)^(b)
for the image of a grass-eating ox.^(T)

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They forgot God their Savior,
who did great things in Egypt,^(U)

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wonderful works in the land of Ham,^(c)
awe-inspiring acts at the Red Sea.^(V)

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So He said He would have destroyed them—
if Moses His chosen one
had not stood before Him in the breach
to turn His wrath away from destroying them.^(W)

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They despised the pleasant land
and did not believe His promise.^(X)

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They grumbled in their tents
and did not listen to the Lord’s voice.^(Y)

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So He raised His hand against them with an oath
that He would make them fall in the desert^(Z)

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and would disperse their descendants^(d)
among the nations,
scattering them throughout the lands.^(AA)

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They aligned themselves with Baal of Peor
and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.^(e)^(AB)

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They provoked the Lord with their deeds,
and a plague broke out against them.^(AC)

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But Phinehas stood up and intervened,
and the plague was stopped.^(AD)

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It was credited to him as righteousness
throughout all generations to come.^(AE)

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They angered the Lord at the waters of Meribah,
and Moses suffered^(f) because of them;^(AF)

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for they embittered his spirit,^(g)
and he spoke rashly with his lips.^(AG)

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They did not destroy the peoples
as the Lord had commanded them^(AH)

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but mingled with the nations
and adopted their ways.^(AI)

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They served their idols,
which became a snare to them.^(AJ)

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They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.^(AK)

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They shed innocent blood—
the blood of their sons and daughters
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
so the land became polluted with blood.^(AL)

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They defiled themselves by their actions
and prostituted themselves by their deeds.^(AM)

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Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against His people,
and He abhorred His own inheritance.^(AN)

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He handed them over to the nations;
those who hated them ruled them.^(AO)

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Their enemies oppressed them,
and they were subdued under their power.^(AP)

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He rescued them many times,
but they continued to rebel deliberately
and were beaten down by their sin.^(AQ)

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When He heard their cry,
He took note of their distress,^(AR)

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remembered His covenant with them,
and relented according to the riches
of His faithful love.^(AS)

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He caused them to be pitied
before all their captors.^(AT)

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Save us, Yahweh our God,
and gather us from the nations,
so that we may give thanks to Your holy name
and rejoice in Your praise.^(AU)

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May Yahweh, the God of Israel, be praised
from everlasting to everlasting.^(AV)
Let all the people say, “Amen!”
Hallelujah!^(AW)

Footnotes:

a. Psalm 106:20: Alt Jewish tradition reads His or My glory

b. Psalm 106:20: God

c. Psalm 106:22: Egypt

d. Psalm 106:27: Syr; MT reads would make their descendants fall

e. Psalm 106:28: Lit sacrifices for dead ones

f. Psalm 106:32: Lit and it was evil for Moses

g. Psalm 106:33: Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr, Jer; other Hb mss read they rebelled against His Spirit

Cross references:

A. Psalm 106:1: 1 Chronicles 16:34; 1 Chronicles 16:41; Psalm 100:5

B. Psalm 106:2: Psalm 145:4; Psalm 145:12; Psalm 150:2

C. Psalm 106:3: Psalm 15:2

D. Psalm 106:4: Psalm 119:132

E. Psalm 106:5: Deuteronomy 32:9; Psalm 105:6; Psalm 105:43

F. Psalm 106:6: Leviticus 26:40; Jeremiah 3:25; Jeremiah 14:20

G. Psalm 106:7: Exodus 14:10-12; Psalm 78:17

H. Psalm 106:8: Exodus 9:16; Ezekiel 20:9

I. Psalm 106:9: Psalm 18:15; Psalm 104:7; Isaiah 63:11-13

J. Psalm 106:10: Exodus 14:30; Psalm 107:2

K. Psalm 106:11: Exodus 14:27-28; Exodus 15:5; Psalm 78:53

L. Psalm 106:12: Exodus 14:31; Exodus 15:1-21; Psalm 105:43

M. Psalm 106:13: Exodus 15:24; Psalm 78:11; Psalm 107:11

N. Psalm 106:14: Numbers 11:4; Psalm 78:18

O. Psalm 106:15: Numbers 11:31; Psalm 78:29

P. Psalm 106:16: Numbers 16:1-3

Q. Psalm 106:17: Numbers 16:31-32; Deuteronomy 11:6

R. Psalm 106:18: Numbers 16:35

S. Psalm 106:19: Exodus 32:4; Deuteronomy 9:8; Acts 7:41

T. Psalm 106:20: Jeremiah 2:11; Romans 1:23

U. Psalm 106:21: Deuteronomy 10:21; Psalm 78:11

V. Psalm 106:22: Psalm 105:27

W. Psalm 106:23: Exodus 32:10; Deuteronomy 9:14; Ezekiel 20:8

X. Psalm 106:24: Numbers 14:31; Deuteronomy 9:23; Hebrews 3:19

Y. Psalm 106:25: Numbers 14:2; Deuteronomy 1:27

Z. Psalm 106:26: Numbers 14:28-35; Ezekiel 20:15; Hebrews 3:11

AA. Psalm 106:27: Leviticus 26:33; Deuteronomy 4:27; Psalm 44:11

AB. Psalm 106:28: Numbers 25:3; Deuteronomy 4:3

AC. Psalm 106:29: Numbers 25:4

AD. Psalm 106:30: Numbers 25:7-8

AE. Psalm 106:31: Genesis 15:6; Numbers 25:10-13

AF. Psalm 106:32: Numbers 20:2-13; Psalm 81:7

AG. Psalm 106:33: Psalm 78:40; Isaiah 63:10

AH. Psalm 106:34: Deuteronomy 7:2; Deuteronomy 7:16; Judges 1:21; Judges 1:27-36

AI. Psalm 106:35: Judges 3:5-6

AJ. Psalm 106:36: Deuteronomy 7:16; Judges 2:12

AK. Psalm 106:37: Leviticus 17:7; Deuteronomy 32:17

AL. Psalm 106:38: Numbers 35:33; Isaiah 24:5

AM. Psalm 106:39: Leviticus 18:24; Ezekiel 20:18; Ezekiel 20:30-31

AN. Psalm 106:40: Deuteronomy 32:19; Psalm 78:59

AO. Psalm 106:41: Judges 2:14; Nehemiah 9:27

AP. Psalm 106:42: Judges 4:3; Judges 10:12

AQ. Psalm 106:43: Judges 2:16-18; Psalm 81:12

AR. Psalm 106:44: Judges 3:3; Judges 6:7; Judges 10:10

AS. Psalm 106:45: Leviticus 26:42; Psalm 105:8

AT. Psalm 106:46: 2 Chronicles 30:9; Ezra 9:9

AU. Psalm 106:47: Psalm 107:3; Psalm 147:2

AV. Psalm 106:48: Psalm 41:13; Psalm 72:18; Psalm 89:52

AW. Psalm 106:47: 1 Chronicles 16:35-36