106:1  Praise the LORD! Oh give thanks to the LORD, for we acknowledge His goodness; For His lovingkindness extends eternally.

106:2  Who can speak of the mighty deeds of the LORD,Or can show forth all His praise?

106:3  How God blesses those who keep justice, Who practice righteousness at all times!

106:4  Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor toward Your people; Visit me with Your salvation,

106:5  That I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, That I may glory with Your inheritance.

106:6   We have sinned like our fathers, We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.

106:7  Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders; They did not remember Your abundant kindnesses, But rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.

106:8  Nevertheless He saved them for the sake of His name, That He might make His power known.

106:9  Thus He rebuked the Red Sea and it dried up, And He led them through the deeps, as through the wilderness.

106:10  So He saved them from the hand of the one who hated them, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

106:11   The waters covered their adversaries; Not one of them remained.

106:12  Then they believed His words; They sang His praise.

106:13  They quickly forgot His works; They did not wait for His counsel,

106:14  But craved intensely in the wilderness, And tempted God in the desert.

106:15  So He gave them their request, But sent a wasting disease among them.

106:16  When they became envious of Moses in the camp, And of Aaron, the holy one of the LORD,

106:17  The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, And engulfed the company of Abiram.

106:18  And a fire blazed up in their company;The flame consumed the wicked.

106:19  They made a calf in Horeb And worshiped a molten image.

106:20  Thus they exchanged their glory For the image of an ox that eats grass.

106:21  They forgot God their Savior, Who had done great things in Egypt,

106:22   Wonders in the land of Ham And awesome things by the Red Sea.

106:23  Therefore He said that He would destroy them, Had not Moses His chosen one stood in the breach before Him, To turn away His wrath from destroying them.

106:24  Then they despised the pleasant land; They did not believe in His word,

106:25  But grumbled in their tents; They did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

106:26  Therefore He swore to them That He would cast them down in the wilderness,

106:27  And that He would cast their seed among the nations And scatter them in the lands.

106:28  They joined themselves also to Baal-peor, And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

106:29  Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds, And the plague broke out among them.

106:30  Then Phinehas stood up and interposed, And so God withdrew the plague .

106:31  And God reckoned it to him for righteousness, To all generations forever.

106:32  They also provoked Him to wrath at the waters of Meribah,So that it went hard with Moses on their account;

106:33  Because they rebelled against His Spirit, He spoke rashly with his lips.

106:34  They did not destroy the peoples, As the LORD commanded them,

106:35  But they mingled with the nations And learned their practices,

106:36  And served their idols, Which became a snare to them.

106:37  They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons,

106:38  And shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons and their daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And they polluted with the blood.

106:39  Thus they became unclean in their practices, And played the harlot in their deeds.

106:40  Therefore the anger of the LORD kindled against His people And He abhorred His inheritance.

106:41  Then He gave them into the hand of the nations, And those who hated them ruled over them.

106:42  Their enemies also oppressed them, And they subdued them under their power.

106:43  Many times He would deliver them; They, however, rebelled in their counsel, And so sank down in their iniquity.

106:44  Nevertheless He looked upon their distress When He heard their cry;

106:45  And He remembered His covenant for their sake, And relented according to the greatness of His lovingkindness.

106:46  He also made them objects of compassion In the presence of all their captors.

106:47   Save us, O LORD our God, And gather us from among the nations, To give thanks to Your holy name And glory in Your praise.

106:48  We bless the LORD, the God of Israel, From everlasting even to everlasting. And let all the people say, "Amen." Praise the LORD!