Thematic Bible

Psalm 106:1

Praise Yah. Give thanks to Yahweh, for [he is] good, for his loyal love [is] forever.

Psalm 106:2

Who can utter the mighty deeds of Yahweh, [or] proclaim all his praise?
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 106:3

Blessed are [those who] observe justice, [he who] does righteousness at all times.

Psalm 106:4

Remember me, O Yahweh, when [you show] favor to your people. Look after me when you deliver,

Psalm 106:5

that may see the good [done] your chosen ones, to be glad in the joy of your nation, to glory together with your inheritance.
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 106:6

We have sinned [along] with our ancestors. We have committed iniquity; we have incurred guilt.

Psalm 106:7

Our ancestors in Egypt did not understand your wonderful works. They did not remember your many acts of loyal love, and [so] they rebelled by [the] sea at {the Red Sea}.

Psalm 106:8

Yet he saved them for the sake of his name, to make known his might.

Psalm 106:9

So he rebuked {the Red Sea}, and it dried up, and he led them through the deep as [through] a desert.

Psalm 106:10

Thus he saved them from [the] hand of [the] hater and redeemed them from [the] hand of [the] enemy.

Psalm 106:11

But waters covered their adversaries; not one of them survived.

Psalm 106:12

Then they believed his words; they sang his praise.

Psalm 106:13

They quickly forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.

Psalm 106:14

And they {craved intensely} in the wilderness, and tested God in [the] desert.

Psalm 106:15

So he gave to them their request, but he sent leanness into their souls.

Psalm 106:16

And they were jealous of Moses in the camp, [and] of Aaron, the holy one of Yahweh.

Psalm 106:17

[The] earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and it covered over the gang of Abiram.

Psalm 106:18

Also fire burned in their assembly; [the] flame devoured [the] wicked.

Psalm 106:19

They made a calf at Horeb and bowed down to a cast image.

Psalm 106:20

And [so] they exchanged their glory for an image of an ox that eats grass.

Psalm 106:21

They forgot God their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,

Psalm 106:22

wonders in the land of Ham, awesome deeds by {the Red Sea}.

Psalm 106:23

So he said he would exterminate them, had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to reverse his wrath from destroying [them].

Psalm 106:24

Then they refused the desirable land; they did not believe his word,

Psalm 106:25

but grumbled in their tents. They did not obey the voice of Yahweh.

Psalm 106:26

So {he made an oath} against them, to make them drop in the wilderness,

Psalm 106:27

and to disperse their {descendants} among the nations and to scatter them among the lands.

Psalm 106:28

They also attached themselves to Baal of Peor, and they ate sacrifices offered to [the] dead.

Psalm 106:29

Thus they provoked to anger by their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

Psalm 106:30

Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, and [so] the plague was stopped,

Psalm 106:31

and it was reckoned to him as righteousness {throughout all generations}.

Psalm 106:32

They also angered [God] at the waters of Meribah, and it went badly for Moses on account of them,

Psalm 106:33

because they rebelled against his Spirit, and he spoke thoughtlessly with his lips.

Psalm 106:34

They did not exterminate the peoples, as Yahweh had commanded them,

Psalm 106:35

but they mingled with the nations and learned their works,

Psalm 106:36

and served their idols, which became a snare to them.

Psalm 106:37

They even sacrificed their sons and daughters to the demons,

Psalm 106:38

and they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and [so] the land was defiled with the blood.

Psalm 106:39

And they became unclean by their works, and were unfaithful in their deeds.

Psalm 106:40

So Yahweh's anger burned against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance.

Psalm 106:41

Then he gave them into [the] hand of [the] nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.

Psalm 106:42

And their enemies oppressed them, and they were subdued under their hand.

Psalm 106:43

Many times he delivered them, but they rebelled in their counsel, and were brought low by their iniquity.

Psalm 106:44

Yet he looked upon their distress when he heard their cry.

Psalm 106:45

And he remembered his covenant with them, and relented based on the abundance of his loyal love.

Psalm 106:46

And he {let them find compassion} before all their captors.

Psalm 106:47

Save us, O Yahweh our God, and gather us from the nations, so that [we may] give thanks to your holy name [and] boast in your praise.

Psalm 106:48

Blessed [is] Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting. And let all the people say, "Amen!" Praise Yah.