106:1 Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, since he is good, for his gracious love exists forever.
106:2 Who can fully describe the mighty acts of the LORD or proclaim all his praises?
106:3 How happy are those who enforce justice, who live righteously all the time.
106:4 Remember me, LORD, when you show favor to your people. Visit us with your deliverance,
106:5 to witness the prosperity of your chosen ones, to rejoice in your nation's joy, to glory in your inheritance.
106:6 We have sinned, along with our ancestors; we have committed iniquity and wickedness.
106:7 In Egypt, our ancestors neither comprehended your awesome deeds nor remembered your abundant gracious love. Instead, they rebelled beside the sea, the Reed Sea.
106:8 He delivered for the sake of his name, to make his power known.
106:9 He shouted at the Reed Sea and it dried up; and led them through the sea as though through a desert.
106:10 He delivered them from the power of their foe; redeeming them from the power of their enemy.
106:11 The water overwhelmed their enemies, so that not one of them survived.
106:12 Then they believed his word and sung his praise.
106:13 But they quickly forgot his deeds and did not wait for his counsel.
106:14 They were overwhelmed with craving in the wilderness, so God tested them in the wasteland.
106:15 God granted them their request, but sent leanness into their lives.
106:16 They were envious of Moses in the camp, and of Aaron, the holy one of the LORD.
106:17 The earth opened and swallowed Dathan, closing over Abiram's clan.
106:18 Then a fire burned among their company, a flame that set the wicked ablaze.
106:19 They fashioned a calf at Horeb and worshipped a carved image.
106:20 They exchanged their glory with the image of a grass-eating bull.
106:21 They forgot God their Savior, who performed great things in Egypt—
106:22 awesome deeds in the land of Ham, astonishing deeds at the Reed Sea.
106:23 He would have destroyed them but for Moses, his chosen one, who stood in the breach before him to avert his destructive wrath.
106:24 They rejected the desirable land, and they didn't trust his promise.
106:25 They murmured in their tents, and didn't listen to the voice of the LORD.
106:26 So he swore an oath concerning them— that he would cause them to die in the wilderness,
106:27 to cause their children to perish among the nations and be scattered among many lands.
106:28 For they adopted the worship of Baal Peor and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
106:29 They had provoked anger by their deeds, so that a plague broke out against them.
106:30 But Phinehas intervened and prayed so that the plague was restrained.
106:31 And it was credited to him as a righteous act, from generation to generation—to eternity.
106:32 They provoked wrath at the waters of Meribah, and Moses suffered on account of them.
106:33 For they rebelled against him, so that he spoke thoughtlessly with his lips.
106:34 They never destroyed the people, as the LORD had commanded them.
106:35 Instead, they mingled among the nations and learned their ways.
106:36 They worshipped their idols, and this became a trap for them.
106:37 They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.
106:38 They shed innocent blood— the blood of their sons and daughters— whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, thereby polluting the land with blood.
106:39 Therefore, they became unclean because of what they did; they have acted like whores by their evil deeds.
106:40 The LORD's anger burned against his people, so that he despised his own inheritance.
106:41 He turned them over to domination by nations where those who hated them ruled over them.
106:42 Their enemies oppressed them, so that they were humiliated by their power.
106:43 He delivered them many times, but they demonstrated rebellion by their evil plans; therefore they sunk deep in their sins.
106:44 Yet when he saw their distress and heard their cries for help,
106:45 he remembered his covenant with them, and so relented according to the greatness of his gracious love.
106:46 He caused all their captors to show compassion toward them.
106:47 Deliver us, LORD our God, gather us from among the nations so we may praise your holy name and rejoice in praising you.
106:48 Blessed are you, LORD God of Israel, from eternity to eternity; Let all the people say, "Amen!" Hallelujah!
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