106:1 PRAISE THE Lord! (Hallelujah!) O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy {and} loving-kindness endure forever! |
106:2 Who can put into words {and} tell the mighty deeds of the Lord? {Or} who can show forth all the praise [that is due Him]? |
106:3 Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are those who observe justice [treating others fairly] {and} who do right {and} are in right standing with God at all times. |
106:4 [Earnestly] remember me, O Lord, when You favor Your people! O visit me also when You deliver them, {and} grant me Your salvation!-- |
106:5 That I may see {and} share the welfare of Your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, that I may glory with Your heritage. |
106:6 We have sinned, as did also our fathers; we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly. |
106:7 Our fathers in Egypt understood not nor appreciated Your miracles; they did not [earnestly] remember the multitude of Your mercies nor imprint Your loving-kindness [on their hearts], but they were rebellious {and} provoked the Lord at the sea, even at the Red Sea. |
106:8 Nevertheless He saved them for His name's sake [to prove the righteousness of the divine character], that He might make His mighty power known. |
106:9 He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it dried up; so He led them through the depths as through a pastureland. |
106:10 And He saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the [Egyptian] enemy. |
106:11 And the waters covered their adversaries; not one of them was left. |
106:12 Then [Israel] believed His words [trusting in, relying on them]; they sang His praise. |
106:13 But they hastily forgot His works; they did not [earnestly] wait for His plans [to develop] regarding them, |
106:14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness and tempted {and} tried to restrain God [with their insistent desires] in the desert. |
106:15 And He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their souls {and} [thinned their numbers by] disease and death. |
106:16 They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron [the high priest], the holy one of the Lord. |
106:17 Therefore the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and closed over the company of Abiram. |
106:18 And a fire broke out in their company; the flame burned up the wicked. |
106:19 They made a calf in Horeb and worshiped a molten image. |
106:20 Thus they exchanged Him Who was their Glory for the image of an ox that eats grass [they traded their Honor for the image of a calf]! |
106:21 They forgot God their Savior, Who had done such great things in Egypt, |
106:22 Wonders {and} miracles in the land of Ham, dreadful {and} awesome things at the Red Sea. |
106:23 Therefore He said He would destroy them. [And He would have done so] had not Moses, His chosen one, stepped into the breach before Him to turn away His threatening wrath. |
106:24 Then they spurned {and} despised the pleasant {and} desirable land [Canaan]; they believed not His word [neither trusting in, relying on, nor holding to it]; |
106:25 But they murmured in their tents {and} hearkened not to the voice of the Lord. |
106:26 Therefore He lifted up His hand [as if taking an oath] against them, that He would cause them to fall in the wilderness, |
106:27 Cast out their descendants among the nations, and scatter them in the lands [of the earth]. |
106:28 They joined themselves also to the [idol] Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices [offered] to the lifeless [gods]. |
106:29 Thus they provoked the Lord to anger with their practices, and a plague broke out among them. |
106:30 Then stood up Phinehas [the priest] and executed judgment, and so the plague was stayed. |
106:31 And that was credited to him for righteousness (right doing and right standing with God) to all generations forever. |
106:32 They angered the Lord also at the waters of Meribah, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes; |
106:33 For they provoked [Moses'] spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips. |
106:34 They did not destroy the [heathen] nations as the Lord commanded them, |
106:35 But mingled themselves with the [idolatrous] nations and learned their ways {and} works |
106:36 And served their idols, which were a snare to them. |
106:37 Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons |
106:38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with their blood. |
106:39 Thus were they defiled by their own works, and they played the harlot {and} practiced idolatry with their own deeds [of idolatrous rites]. |
106:40 Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against His people, insomuch that He abhorred {and} rejected His own heritage. |
106:41 And He gave them into the hands of the [heathen] nations, and they that hated them ruled over them. |
106:42 Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under the hand of their foes. |
106:43 Many times did [God] deliver them, but they were rebellious in their counsel and sank low through their iniquity. |
106:44 Nevertheless He regarded their distress when He heard their cry; |
106:45 And He [earnestly] remembered for their sake His covenant and relented their sentence of evil [comforting and easing Himself] according to the abundance of His mercy {and} loving-kindness [when they cried out to Him]. |
106:46 He also caused [Israel] to find sympathy among those who had carried them away captive. |
106:47 Deliver us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name {and} glory in praising You. |
106:48 Blessed (affectionately and gratefully praised) be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! And let all the people say, Amen! Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!) |