106Psalms 106

The 's Goodness to His People

1Praise the Lord! Give thanks to the Lord, because he is good; his love is eternal.Select Psalms 106:1

2Who can tell all the great things he has done? Who can praise him enough?Select Psalms 106:2

3Happy are those who obey his commands, who always do what is right.Select Psalms 106:3

4Remember me, Lord, when you help your people; include me when you save them.Select Psalms 106:4

5Let 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.Select Psalms 106:5

6We have sinned as our ancestors did; we have been wicked and evil.Select Psalms 106:6

7Our 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.Select Psalms 106:7

8But he saved them, as he had promised, in order to show his great power.Select Psalms 106:8

9He gave a command to the Red Sea, and it dried up; he led his people across on dry land.Select Psalms 106:9

10He saved them from those who hated them; he rescued them from their enemies.Select Psalms 106:10

11But the water drowned their enemies; not one of them was left.Select Psalms 106:11

12Then his people believed his promises and sang praises to him.Select Psalms 106:12

13But they quickly forgot what he had done and acted without waiting for his advice.Select Psalms 106:13

14They were filled with craving in the desert and put God to the test;Select Psalms 106:14

15so he gave them what they asked for, but also sent a terrible disease among them.Select Psalms 106:15

16There in the desert they were jealous of Moses and of Aaron, the Lord's holy servant.Select Psalms 106:16

17Then the earth opened up and swallowed Dathan and buried Abiram and his family;Select Psalms 106:17

18fire came down on their followers and burned up those wicked people.Select Psalms 106:18

19They made a gold bull-calf at Sinai and worshiped that idol;Select Psalms 106:19

20they exchanged the glory of God for the image of an animal that eats grass.Select Psalms 106:20

21They forgot the God who had saved them by his mighty acts in Egypt.Select Psalms 106:21

22What wonderful things he did there! What amazing things at the Red Sea!Select Psalms 106:22

23When God said that he would destroy his people, his chosen servant, Moses, stood up against God and kept his anger from destroying them.Select Psalms 106:23

24Then they rejected the pleasant land, because they did not believe God's promise.Select Psalms 106:24

25They stayed in their tents and grumbled and would not listen to the Lord.Select Psalms 106:25

26So he gave them a solemn warning that he would make them die in the desertSelect Psalms 106:26

27and scatter their descendants among the heathen, letting them die in foreign countries.Select Psalms 106:27

28Then at Peor, God's people joined in the worship of Baal and ate sacrifices offered to dead gods.Select Psalms 106:28

29They stirred up the Lord's anger by their actions, and a terrible disease broke out among them.Select Psalms 106:29

30But Phinehas stood up and punished the guilty, and the plague was stopped.Select Psalms 106:30

31This has been remembered in his favor ever since and will be for all time to come.Select Psalms 106:31

32At the springs of Meribah the people made the Lord angry, and Moses was in trouble on their account.Select Psalms 106:32

33They made him so bitter that he spoke without stopping to think.Select Psalms 106:33

34They did not kill the heathen, as the Lord had commanded them to do,Select Psalms 106:34

35but they intermarried with them and adopted their pagan ways.Select Psalms 106:35

36God's people worshiped idols, and this caused their destruction.Select Psalms 106:36

37They offered their own sons and daughters as sacrifices to the idols of Canaan.Select Psalms 106:37

38They killed those innocent children, and the land was defiled by those murders.Select Psalms 106:38

39They made themselves impure by their actions and were unfaithful to God.Select Psalms 106:39

40So the Lord was angry with his people; he was disgusted with them.Select Psalms 106:40

41He abandoned them to the power of the heathen, and their enemies ruled over them.Select Psalms 106:41

42They were oppressed by their enemies and were in complete subjection to them.Select Psalms 106:42

43Many times the Lord rescued his people, but they chose to rebel against him and sank deeper into sin.Select Psalms 106:43

44Yet the Lord heard them when they cried out, and he took notice of their distress.Select Psalms 106:44

45For their sake he remembered his covenant, and because of his great love he relented.Select Psalms 106:45

46He made all their oppressors feel sorry for them.Select Psalms 106:46

47Save us, O Lord our God, and bring us back from among the nations, so that we may be thankful and praise your holy name.Select Psalms 106:47

48Praise the Lord, the God of Israel; praise him now and forever! Let everyone say, “Amen!” Praise the Lord!Select Psalms 106:48