Psalms 106

Israel’s rebelliousness and Jehovah’s deliverances.

Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah,

Blessed are they that keep justice,

Remember me, O Jehovah, with the favor that thou bearest unto thy people;

That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen,

We have sinned with our fathers,

Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt;

Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake,

He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up:

And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them,

And the waters covered their adversaries;

Then believed they his words;

They soon forgat his works;

But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,

And he gave them their request,

They envied Moses also in the camp,

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,

And a fire was kindled in their company;

They made a calf in Horeb,

Thus they changed their glory

They forgat God their Saviour,

Wondrous works in the land of Ham,

Therefore he said that he would destroy them,

Yea, they despised the pleasant land,

But murmured in their tents,

Therefore he sware unto them,

And that he would overthrow their seed among the nations,

They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor,

Thus they provoked him to anger with their doings;

Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment;

And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness,

They angered him also at the waters of Meribah,

Because they were rebellious against his spirit,

They did not destroy the peoples,

But mingled themselves with the nations,

And served their idols,

Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,

And shed innocent blood,

Thus were they defiled with their works,

Therefore was the wrath of Jehovah kindled against his people,

And he gave them into the hand of the nations;

Their enemies also oppressed them,

Many times did he deliver them;

Nevertheless he regarded their distress,

And he remembered for them his covenant,

He made them also to be pitied

Save us, O Jehovah our God,

Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel,