Psa 106 | HCSB | STEP | Hallelujah ! Give thanks to the Lord , for He is good ; His faithful love endures forever .

‏ Psalms 106

Israel’s Unfaithfulness to God

1 ^{▼▼Hallelujah!: Or Praise the Lord!; it literally means Praise Yah! (a shortened form of Yahweh)}Hallelujah!
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good;
His faithful love endures forever. ^b
2 Who can declare the Lord’s mighty acts
or proclaim all the praise due Him? ^c
3 How happy are those who uphold justice,
who practice righteousness at all times. ^d

4 Remember me, Lord,
when You show favor to Your people. ^e
Come to me with Your salvation
5 so that I may enjoy the prosperity
of Your chosen ones,
rejoice in the joy of Your nation,
and boast about Your heritage. ^f

6 Both we and our fathers have sinned;
we have done wrong and have acted wickedly. ^g
7 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: Literally Sea of Reeds}Red Sea. ⁱ
8 Yet He saved them because of His name,
to make His power known. ^j
9 He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;
He led them through the depths as through a desert. ^k
10 He saved them from the hand of the adversary;
He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. ^l
11 Water covered their foes;
not one of them remained. ^m
12 Then they believed His promises
and sang His praise. ⁿ

13 They soon forgot His works
and would not wait for His counsel. ^o
14 They were seized with craving in the wilderness
and tested God in the desert. ^p
15 He gave them what they asked for,
but sent a wasting disease among them. ^q

16 In the camp they were envious of Moses
and of Aaron, the Lord’s holy one. ^r
17 The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;
it covered the assembly of Abiram. ^s
18 Fire blazed throughout their assembly;
flames consumed the wicked. ^t

19 At Horeb they made a calf
and worshiped the cast metal image. ^u
20 They exchanged their glory ^{▼▼Alt Jewish tradition reads His or My glory
,} ^{▼▼= God}
for the image of a grass-eating ox. ^x
21 They forgot God their Savior,
who did great things in Egypt, ^y
22 wonderful works in the land of Ham, ^{▼▼= Egypt}
awe-inspiring acts at the Red Sea. ^aa
23 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. ^ab

24 They despised the pleasant land
and did not believe His promise. ^ac
25 They grumbled in their tents
and did not listen to the Lord’s voice. ^ad
26 So He raised His hand against them with an oath
that He would make them fall in the desert ^ae
27 and would disperse their descendants ^{▼▼Syr; MT reads would make their descendants fall}
among the nations,
scattering them throughout the lands. ^ag

28 They aligned themselves with ^{▼▼Baal: A fertility god who was the main god of the Canaanite religion and the god of rain and thunderstorms; also the Hebrew word meaning "lord," "master," "owner," or "husband"}Baal of Peor
and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods. ^{▼▼Lit sacrifices for dead ones
,} ^aj
29 They provoked the Lord with their deeds,
and a plague broke out against them. ^ak
30 But Phinehas stood up and intervened,
and the plague was stopped. ^al
31 It was credited to him as righteousness
throughout all generations to come. ^am

32 They angered the Lord at the waters of Meribah,
and Moses suffered ^{▼▼Lit and it was evil for Moses} because of them; ^ao
33 for they embittered his spirit, ^{▼▼Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr, Jer; other Hb mss read they rebelled against His Spirit}
and he spoke rashly with his lips. ^aq

34 They did not destroy the peoples
as the Lord had commanded them ^ar
35 but mingled with the nations
and adopted their ways. ^as
36 They served their idols,
which became a snare to them. ^at
37 They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons. ^au
38 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. ^av
39 They defiled themselves by their actions
and prostituted themselves by their deeds. ^aw

40 Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against His people,
and He abhorred His own inheritance. ^ax
41 He handed them over to the nations;
those who hated them ruled them. ^ay
42 Their enemies oppressed them,
and they were subdued under their power. ^az
43 He rescued them many times,
but they continued to rebel deliberately
and were beaten down by their sin. ^ba

44 When He heard their cry,
He took note of their distress, ^bb
45 remembered His covenant with them,
and relented according to the riches
of His faithful love. ^bc
46 He caused them to be pitied
before all their captors. ^bd

47 Save us, ^{▼▼Yahweh/Yah: Or The Lord; the personal name of God in Hebrew; "Yah" is the shortened form of the name.}Yahweh our God,
and gather us from the nations,
so that we may give thanks to Your holy name
and rejoice in Your praise. ^bf

48 May Yahweh, the God of Israel, be praised
from everlasting to everlasting. ^bg
Let all the people say, “ ^{▼▼Amen: The transliteration of a Hebrew word signifying that something is certain, valid, truthful, or faithful; it is often used at the end of biblical songs, hymns, and prayers.}Amen!”
^{▼▼Hallelujah!: Or Praise the Lord!; it literally means Praise Yah! (a shortened form of Yahweh)}Hallelujah! ^bj