Psalms 106:1
Hallelujah! Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his loving-kindness endureth for ever.
Psalms 106:2
Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah? who can shew forth all his praise?
Psalms 106:3
Blessed are they that keep justice, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.
Psalms 106:4
Remember me, O Jehovah, with thy favour toward thy people; visit me with thy salvation:
Psalms 106:5
That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the joy of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.
Psalms 106:6
We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
Psalms 106:7
Our fathers in Egypt considered not thy wondrous works; they remembered not the multitude of thy loving-kindnesses; but they rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea.
Psalms 106:8
Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his might.
Psalms 106:9
And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; and he led them through the deeps as through a wilderness.
Psalms 106:10
And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them , and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
Psalms 106:11
And the waters covered their oppressors: there was not one of them left.
Psalms 106:12
Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.
Psalms 106:13
They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:
Psalms 106:14
And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted *God in the desert.
Psalms 106:15
Then he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.
Psalms 106:16
And they envied Moses in the camp, and Aaron, the saint of Jehovah.
Psalms 106:17
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram;
Psalms 106:18
And fire was kindled in their company; a flame burned up the wicked.
Psalms 106:19
They made a calf in Horeb, and did homage to a molten image;
Psalms 106:20
And they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
Psalms 106:21
They forgot *God their Saviour, who had done great things in Egypt,
Psalms 106:22
Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.
Psalms 106:23
And he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the breach, to turn away his fury, lest he should destroy them .
Psalms 106:24
And they despised the pleasant land; they believed not his word,
Psalms 106:25
But murmured in their tents: they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah.
Psalms 106:26
And he lifted up his hand to them, that he would make them fall in the wilderness;
Psalms 106:27
And that he would make their seed fall among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.
Psalms 106:28
And they joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead;
Psalms 106:29
And they provoked him to anger with their doings; and a plague broke out among them.
Psalms 106:30
Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment, and the plague was stayed;
Psalms 106:31
And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness, from generation to generation, for evermore.
Psalms 106:32
And they moved him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account;
Psalms 106:33
For they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.
Psalms 106:34
They did not destroy the peoples, as Jehovah commanded them;
Psalms 106:35
But they mingled with the nations, and learned their works;
Psalms 106:36
And they served their idols; and they were a snare unto them:
Psalms 106:37
And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,
Psalms 106:38
And shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.
Psalms 106:39
And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings.
Psalms 106:40
Then was the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance;
Psalms 106:41
And he gave them into the hand of the nations; and they that hated them ruled over them:
Psalms 106:42
And their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.
Psalms 106:43
Often did he deliver them; but as for them they provoked him by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquity.
Psalms 106:44
But he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry;
Psalms 106:45
And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses;
Psalms 106:46
And he caused them to find compassion of all those that had carried them captives.
Psalms 106:47
Save us, Jehovah our God, and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
Psalms 106:48
Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, from eternity and to eternity! And let all the people say, Amen! Hallelujah!