Psalms Chapter 106
1Hallelujah!
Be grateful to Yahveh because he’s good;
his enduring love lasts forever.
2 Who can recount all his mighty deeds?
Who can ever praise him enough?
3 How blessed they are who maintain justice,
who practice goodness all the time!
4 Remember me, Yahveh, when you’re gracious to your people;
come and rescue me
5so I can share in your holy people’s prosperity,
celebrate in your nation’s happiness,
and glory in your heritage.
Ps 106:1-5
6 We and our ancestors have sinned,
committed iniquity, and behaved badly.
7 Our ancestors in Egypt didn’t get the point of Yahveh’s amazing acts
or remember his abundant kindness;
instead, they rebelled against him at the Red Sea.
8 Nevertheless, he saved them to defend his honor
and demonstrate his power.
9 He commanded the Red Sea to dry up,
and led them through its depths as through a desert.
10 He saved them from those who hated them;
he rescued them from their enemy.
11 The water drowned their adversaries;
not a one survived.
12 Then they believed in him and praised him in song.
Ps 106:6-12
13 But they soon forgot what he’d done
and didn’t wait for his direction,
14 but made loud demands
and put him on trial in the desert.
15 So he gave them what they asked for,
but sent a wasting disease among them.
Ps 106:13-15
16 When men in the camp got jealous of Moses
and of Aaron, Yahveh’s holy priest,
17 the ground opened up
and swallowed Dathan and Abiram’s rebels.
18 Fire broke out among their companions
and consumed the sinful.
Ps 106:16-18
19 They made a calf at Horeb/Sinai
and worshiped a molten image;
20they exchanged their Glorious One
for an image of a bull that eats grass.
21 They forgot God, who’d saved them
and done such great things in Egypt,
22 amazing things in Ham,
awesome things at the Red Sea.
23 So he said he’d destroy them.
If Moses, his chosen one, hadn’t stood in the gap
to turn away his wrath, he would’ve done it.
24 They refused to enter the pleasant land
and didn’t believe what he promised;
25they grumbled in their tents
and didn’t listen to Yahveh.
26 So he swore he’d let them die in the desert,
27disperse their descendants among the nations,
and scatter them in other lands.
Ps 106:19-27
28 They joined in the worship of Baal-peor
and ate sacrifices to the dead.
29 What they did provoked him
to send a plague out among them.
30 Then Phinehas got up and intervened;
so the plague stopped.
31He’s been considered a good man ever since.
Ps 106:28-31
32 They’d already provoked God at Meribah
and got Moses in serious trouble 33 for speaking rashly.
34 Later, they failed to eradicate the nations like Yahveh told them to,
35 but mixed in with them, learned their practices,
36 and served their idols, which led to their downfall.
37 They even sacrificed sons and daughters to the demons
38and thereby shed innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters
that they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
they polluted the land with blood.
39 So they defiled themselves with their practices
and played the prostitute in their deeds.
Ps 106:32-39
40 Yahveh’s anger so sparked against his people
that he abhorred his special possession.
41 So he gave them over to the surrounding nations;
people that hated them ruled them;
42their enemies subdued them
and oppressed them.
43 Many times he delivered them,
but they kept rebelling with their own intentions
and sank into sin.
Ps 106:40-43
44 Nevertheless, he felt compassion for them
when he heard them cry out in distress.
45 He remembered his covenant
and relented because of his enduring love.
46 He even made their captors be kind to them.
47 Save us, Yahveh our God;
retrieve us from the nations
so we can thank you and glory in praising you.
48 Bless Yahveh God of Israel
from everlasting to everlasting.
Everybody say, “Amen.”
Hallelujah!
Ps 106:44-48