Psalms - Chapter 106 | Good News Translation

  • 1. Praise the LORD! Give thanks to the LORD, because he is good; his love is eternal.
  • 2. Who can tell all the great things he has done? Who can praise him enough?
  • 3. Happy are those who obey his commands, who always do what is right.
  • 4. Remember me, LORD, when you help your people; include me when you save them.
  • 5. Let me see the prosperity of your people and share in the happiness of your nation, in the glad pride of those who belong to you.
  • 6. We have sinned as our ancestors did; we have been wicked and evil.
  • 7. Our ancestors in Egypt did not understand God's wonderful acts; they forgot the many times he showed them his love, and they rebelled against the Almighty at the Red Sea.
  • 8. But he saved them, as he had promised, in order to show his great power.
  • 9. He gave a command to the Red Sea, and it dried up; he led his people across on dry land.
  • 10. He saved them from those who hated them; he rescued them from their enemies.
  • 11. But the water drowned their enemies; not one of them was left.
  • 12. Then his people believed his promises and sang praises to him.
  • 13. But they quickly forgot what he had done and acted without waiting for his advice.
  • 14. They were filled with craving in the desert and put God to the test;
  • 15. so he gave them what they asked for, but also sent a terrible disease among them.
  • 16. There in the desert they were jealous of Moses and of Aaron, the LORD's holy servant.
  • 17. Then the earth opened up and swallowed Dathan and buried Abiram and his family;
  • 18. fire came down on their followers and burned up those wicked people.
  • 19. They made a gold bull-calf at Sinai and worshiped that idol;
  • 20. they exchanged the glory of God for the image of an animal that eats grass.
  • 21. They forgot the God who had saved them by his mighty acts in Egypt.
  • 22. What wonderful things he did there! What amazing things at the Red Sea!
  • 23. When God said that he would destroy his people, his chosen servant, Moses, stood up against God and kept his anger from destroying them.
  • 24. Then they rejected the pleasant land, because they did not believe God's promise.
  • 25. They stayed in their tents and grumbled and would not listen to the LORD.
  • 26. So he have them a solomn warning that he would make them die in the desert
  • 27. and scatter their descendants among the heathen, letting them die in foreign countries.
  • 28. Then at Peor, God's people joined in the worship of Baal and ate sacrifices offered to dead gods.
  • 29. They stirred up the LORD's anger by their actions, and a terrible disease broke out among them.
  • 30. But Phinehas stood up and punished the guilty, and the plague was stopped.
  • 31. This has been remembered in his favor ever since and will be for all time to come.
  • 32. At the springs of Meribah the people made the LORD angry, and Moses was in trouble on their account.
  • 33. They made him so bitter that he spoke without stopping to think.
  • 34. They did not kill the heathen, as the LORD had commanded them to do,
  • 35. but they intermarried with them and adopted their pagan ways.
  • 36. God's people worshiped idols, and this caused their destruction.
  • 37. They offered their own sons and daughters as sacrifices to the idols of Canaan.
  • 38. They killed those innocent children, and the land was defiled by those murders.
  • 39. They made themselves impure by their actions and were unfaithful to God.
  • 40. So the LORD was angry with his people; he was disgusted with them.
  • 41. He abandoned them to the power of the heathen, and their enemies ruled over them.
  • 42. They were oppressed by their enemies and were in complete subjection to them.
  • 43. Many times the LORD rescued his people, but they chose to rebel against him and sank deeper into sin.
  • 44. Yet the LORD heard them when they cried out, and he took notice of their distress.
  • 45. For their sake he remembered his covenant, and because of his great love he relented.
  • 46. He made all their oppressors feel sorry for them.
  • 47. Save us, O LORD our God, and bring us back from among the nations, so that we may be thankful and praise your holy name.
  • 48. Praise the LORD, the God of Israel; praise him now and forever! Let everyone say, "Amen!" Praise the LORD!
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