106:1  Praise the LORD! Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good!
For His mercy endures forever.

106:2  Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD?
Who can declare all His praise?

106:3  Blessed are those who keep justice,
And he who does righteousness at all times!

106:4  Remember me, O LORD, with the favor You have toward Your people.
Oh, visit me with Your salvation,

106:5  That I may see the benefit 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 with our fathers,
We have committed iniquity,
We have done wickedly.

106:7  Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders;
They did not remember the multitude of Your mercies,
But rebelled by the sea—the Red Sea.

106:8  Nevertheless He saved them for His name’s sake,
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 the wilderness.

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

106:11  The waters covered their enemies;
There was not one of them left.

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

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

106:14  But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,
And tested God in the desert.

106:15  And He gave them their request,
But sent leanness into their soul.

106:16  When they envied Moses in the camp,
And Aaron the saint of the LORD,

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

106:18  A fire was kindled in their company;
The flame burned up the wicked.

106:19  They made a calf in Horeb,
And worshiped the molded image.

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

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

106:22  Wondrous works in the land of Ham,
Awesome things by the Red Sea.

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

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

106:25  But complained in their tents,
And did not heed the voice of the LORD.

106:26  Therefore He raised His hand in an oath against them,
To overthrow them in the wilderness,

106:27  To overthrow their descendants among the nations,
And to scatter them in the lands.

106:28  They joined themselves also to Baal of Peor,
And ate sacrifices made 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 intervened,
And the plague was stopped.

106:31  And that was accounted to him for righteousness
To all generations forevermore.

106:32  They angered Him also at the waters of strife,
So that it went ill with Moses on account of them;

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

106:34  They did not destroy the peoples,
Concerning whom the LORD had commanded them,

106:35  But they mingled with the Gentiles
And learned their works;

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

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

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

106:39  Thus they were defiled by their own works,
And played the harlot by their own deeds.

106:40  Therefore the wrath of the LORD was kindled against His people,
So that He abhorred His own inheritance.

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

106:42  Their enemies also oppressed them,
And they were brought into subjection under their hand.

106:43  Many times He delivered them;
But they rebelled in their counsel,
And were brought low for their iniquity.

106:44  Nevertheless He regarded their affliction,
When He heard their cry;

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

106:46  He also made them to be pitied
By all those who carried them away captive.

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

106:48  Blessed be the LORD God of Israel
From everlasting to everlasting!
And let all the people say, “Amen!” Praise the LORD!