Psalms 106

1Hallelujah.Praise GOD, who is good—whose steadfast love is eternal.

2Who can tell GOD’s mighty acts,proclaim all due praises?

3Happy are those who act justly,who do right at all times.

4Be mindful of me, O ETERNAL One, when You favor Your people;take note of me when You deliver them,

5that I may enjoy the prosperity of Your chosen ones,share the joy of Your nation,glory in Your very own people.

6We have sinned like our ancestors;we have gone astray, done evil.

7Our ancestors in Egypt did not perceive Your wonders;they did not remember Your abundant love,but rebelled at the sea, at the Sea of Reeds.

8Yet they were saved, as befits God’s name,to make known God’s might.

9A blast was sent against the Sea of Reeds;it became dry;they were led through the deep as through a wilderness.

10They were delivered from the foe,redeemed from the enemy.

11Water covered their adversaries;not one of them was left.

12Then they believed God’s promise,and sang God’s praises.

13But they soon forgot those deeds;they would not wait to learn the divine plan.

14They were seized with craving in the wilderness,and put God to the test in the wasteland.

15They were given what they asked for,then made to waste away.

16There was envy of Moses in the camp,and of Aaron, GOD’s holy one.

17The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan,closed over the party of Abiram.

18A fire blazed among their party,a flame that consumed the wicked.

19They made a calf at Horeband bowed down to a molten image.

20They exchanged their gloryfor the image of a bull that feeds on grass.

21They forgot God who saved them,who performed great deeds in Egypt,

22wondrous deeds in the land of Ham,awesome deeds at the Sea of Reeds.

23They would have been destroyedhad not Moses, God’s chosen one,stood in the breachto avert God’s destructive wrath.

24They rejected the desirable land,and put no faith in the divine promise.

25They grumbled in their tentsand disobeyed GOD.

26So a divine hand was raised in oathto make them fall in the wilderness,

27to disperse their offspring among the nationsand scatter them through the lands.

28They attached themselves to Baal Peor,ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

29They provoked anger by their deeds,and a plague broke out among them.

30Phinehas stepped forth and intervened,and the plague ceased.

31It was reckoned to his meritfor all generations, to eternity.

32They provoked wrath at the waters of Meribahand Moses suffered on their account,

33because they rebelled against [God]and he spoke rashly.

34They did not destroy the nationsas GOD had commanded them,

35but mingled with the nationsand learned their ways.

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

37Their own sons and daughtersthey sacrificed to demons.

38They shed innocent blood,the blood of their sons and daughters,whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;so the land was polluted with bloodguilt.

39Thus they became defiled by their acts,debauched through their deeds.

40GOD was angry with this peopleand abhorred them as an inheritance.

41They were handed over to the nations;their foes ruled them.

42Their enemies oppressed themand they were subject to their power.

43They were saved time and again,but they were deliberately rebellious,and so they were brought low by their iniquity.

44Upon seeing that they were in distress,and hearing their cry,

45[God] was mindful of the covenantand in great faithfulness relented.

46Their captors were made to be kindly disposed toward them.

47Deliver us, our ETERNAL God,and gather us from among the nations,to acclaim Your holy name,to glory in Your praise.

48Blessed is the ETERNAL, God of Israel,From eternity to eternity.Let all the people say, “Amen.”Hallelujah.