Thematic Bible
Psalm 106:1 (show verse)
Praise Yah. Give thanks to Yahweh, for [he is] good, for his loyal love [is] forever.
Psalm 106:2 (show verse)
Who can utter the mighty deeds of Yahweh, [or] proclaim all his praise?
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Psalm 106:3 (show verse)
Blessed are [those who] observe justice, [he who] does righteousness at all times.
Psalm 106:4 (show verse)
Remember me, O Yahweh, when [you show] favor to your people. Look after me when you deliver,
Psalm 106:5 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
We have sinned [along] with our ancestors. We have committed iniquity; we have incurred guilt.
Psalm 106:7 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
Yet he saved them for the sake of his name, to make known his might.
Psalm 106:9 (show verse)
So he rebuked {the Red Sea}, and it dried up, and he led them through the deep as [through] a desert.
Psalm 106:10 (show verse)
Thus he saved them from [the] hand of [the] hater and redeemed them from [the] hand of [the] enemy.
Psalm 106:11 (show verse)
But waters covered their adversaries; not one of them survived.
Psalm 106:12 (show verse)
Then they believed his words; they sang his praise.
Psalm 106:13 (show verse)
They quickly forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.
Psalm 106:14 (show verse)
And they {craved intensely} in the wilderness, and tested God in [the] desert.
Psalm 106:15 (show verse)
So he gave to them their request, but he sent leanness into their souls.
Psalm 106:16 (show verse)
And they were jealous of Moses in the camp, [and] of Aaron, the holy one of Yahweh.
Psalm 106:17 (show verse)
[The] earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and it covered over the gang of Abiram.
Psalm 106:18 (show verse)
Also fire burned in their assembly; [the] flame devoured [the] wicked.
Psalm 106:19 (show verse)
They made a calf at Horeb and bowed down to a cast image.
Psalm 106:20 (show verse)
And [so] they exchanged their glory for an image of an ox that eats grass.
Psalm 106:21 (show verse)
They forgot God their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,
Psalm 106:22 (show verse)
wonders in the land of Ham, awesome deeds by {the Red Sea}.
Psalm 106:23 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
Then they refused the desirable land; they did not believe his word,
Psalm 106:25 (show verse)
but grumbled in their tents. They did not obey the voice of Yahweh.
Psalm 106:26 (show verse)
So {he made an oath} against them, to make them drop in the wilderness,
Psalm 106:27 (show verse)
and to disperse their {descendants} among the nations and to scatter them among the lands.
Psalm 106:28 (show verse)
They also attached themselves to Baal of Peor, and they ate sacrifices offered to [the] dead.
Psalm 106:29 (show verse)
Thus they provoked to anger by their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
Psalm 106:30 (show verse)
Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, and [so] the plague was stopped,
Psalm 106:31 (show verse)
and it was reckoned to him as righteousness {throughout all generations}.
Psalm 106:32 (show verse)
They also angered [God] at the waters of Meribah, and it went badly for Moses on account of them,
Psalm 106:33 (show verse)
because they rebelled against his Spirit, and he spoke thoughtlessly with his lips.
Psalm 106:34 (show verse)
They did not exterminate the peoples, as Yahweh had commanded them,
Psalm 106:35 (show verse)
but they mingled with the nations and learned their works,
Psalm 106:36 (show verse)
and served their idols, which became a snare to them.
Psalm 106:37 (show verse)
They even sacrificed their sons and daughters to the demons,
Psalm 106:38 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
And they became unclean by their works, and were unfaithful in their deeds.
Psalm 106:40 (show verse)
So Yahweh's anger burned against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance.
Psalm 106:41 (show verse)
Then he gave them into [the] hand of [the] nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.
Psalm 106:42 (show verse)
And their enemies oppressed them, and they were subdued under their hand.
Psalm 106:43 (show verse)
Many times he delivered them, but they rebelled in their counsel, and were brought low by their iniquity.
Psalm 106:44 (show verse)
Yet he looked upon their distress when he heard their cry.
Psalm 106:45 (show verse)
And he remembered his covenant with them, and relented based on the abundance of his loyal love.
Psalm 106:46 (show verse)
And he {let them find compassion} before all their captors.
Psalm 106:47 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
Blessed [is] Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting. And let all the people say, "Amen!" Praise Yah.