106:1 Praise the LORD! Give thanks to the LORD, because he is good; his love is eternal. |
106:2 Who can tell all the great things he has done? Who can praise him enough? |
106:3 Happy are those who obey his commands, who always do what is right. |
106:4 Remember me, LORD, when you help your people; include me when you save them. |
106:5 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. |
106:6 We have sinned as our ancestors did; we have been wicked and evil. |
106:7 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. |
106:8 But he saved them, as he had promised, in order to show his great power. |
106:9 He gave a command to the Red Sea, and it dried up; he led his people across on dry land. |
106:10 He saved them from those who hated them; he rescued them from their enemies. |
106:11 But the water drowned their enemies; not one of them was left. |
106:12 Then his people believed his promises and sang praises to him. |
106:13 But they quickly forgot what he had done and acted without waiting for his advice. |
106:14 They were filled with craving in the desert and put God to the test; |
106:15 so he gave them what they asked for, but also sent a terrible disease among them. |
106:16 There in the desert they were jealous of Moses and of Aaron, the LORD's holy servant. |
106:17 Then the earth opened up and swallowed Dathan and buried Abiram and his family; |
106:18 fire came down on their followers and burned up those wicked people. |
106:19 They made a gold bull-calf at Sinai and worshiped that idol; |
106:20 they exchanged the glory of God for the image of an animal that eats grass. |
106:21 They forgot the God who had saved them by his mighty acts in Egypt. |
106:22 What wonderful things he did there! What amazing things at the Red Sea! |
106:23 When God said that he would destroy his people, his chosen servant, Moses, stood up against God and kept his anger from destroying them. |
106:24 Then they rejected the pleasant land, because they did not believe God's promise. |
106:25 They stayed in their tents and grumbled and would not listen to the LORD. |
106:26 So he have them a solomn warning that he would make them die in the desert |
106:27 and scatter their descendants among the heathen, letting them die in foreign countries. |
106:28 Then at Peor, God's people joined in the worship of Baal and ate sacrifices offered to dead gods. |
106:29 They stirred up the LORD's anger by their actions, and a terrible disease broke out among them. |
106:30 But Phinehas stood up and punished the guilty, and the plague was stopped. |
106:31 This has been remembered in his favor ever since and will be for all time to come. |
106:32 At the springs of Meribah the people made the LORD angry, and Moses was in trouble on their account. |
106:33 They made him so bitter that he spoke without stopping to think. |
106:34 They did not kill the heathen, as the LORD had commanded them to do, |
106:35 but they intermarried with them and adopted their pagan ways. |
106:36 God's people worshiped idols, and this caused their destruction. |
106:37 They offered their own sons and daughters as sacrifices to the idols of Canaan. |
106:38 They killed those innocent children, and the land was defiled by those murders. |
106:39 They made themselves impure by their actions and were unfaithful to God. |
106:40 So the LORD was angry with his people; he was disgusted with them. |
106:41 He abandoned them to the power of the heathen, and their enemies ruled over them. |
106:42 They were oppressed by their enemies and were in complete subjection to them. |
106:43 Many times the LORD rescued his people, but they chose to rebel against him and sank deeper into sin. |
106:44 Yet the LORD heard them when they cried out, and he took notice of their distress. |
106:45 For their sake he remembered his covenant, and because of his great love he relented. |
106:46 He made all their oppressors feel sorry for them. |
106:47 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. |
106:48 Praise the LORD, the God of Israel; praise him now and forever! Let everyone say, "Amen!" Praise the LORD! |