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106:1  Praise the Lord. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy endures forever.
106:2  Who can tell about the mighty deeds of the Lord? Who can cause all his praise to be heard?
106:3  Blessed are those who defend justice, who do what is right all the time.
106:4  Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people. Visit me with your salvation,
106:5  so that I may experience the good that belongs to your chosen ones, so that I may rejoice in the joy of your nation, so that I may join in praise with the people that belongs to you.
106:6  We have sinned along with our fathers. We have become guilty. We have acted wickedly.
106:7  Our fathers in Egypt did not reflect on your wonders. They did not remember your abundant mercies, so they rebelled beside the sea, by the Red Sea.
106:8  Nevertheless, he saved them for his name’s sake, to make his might known.
106:9  Then he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up. He caused them to go through the deep sea as if it were a desert.
106:10  He saved them from the hand of the one who hated them. He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
106:11  Then the waters covered their foes. Not one of them remained.
106:12  Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.
106:13  They quickly forgot his deeds. They did not wait for his plan.
106:14  Because they were filled with craving in the wilderness, they challenged God in the wasteland.
106:15  So he gave them what they asked for, but he made them sick so they wasted away.
106:16  Then they grew jealous of Moses in the camp and of Aaron, who was holy to the Lord.
106:17  The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan, and it closed over the followers of Abiram.
106:18  Then fire burned up their followers. Flames consumed the wicked.
106:19  They made a calf at Horeb, and they bowed down to a thing cast from metal.
106:20  So they exchanged their Glory for a model of an ox that eats grass.
106:21  They forgot the God who saved them by doing great things in Egypt,
106:22  wonders in the land of Ham, awesome deeds beside the Red Sea.
106:23  So he said he would destroy them. But Moses, his chosen one, stood between God and the people to turn aside his wrath, so it did not destroy them.
106:24  Then they refused the pleasant land. They did not believe his word.
106:25  They grumbled in their tents. They did not listen to the voice of the Lord.
106:26  So he lifted up his hand and swore to them that he would make them fall in the wilderness,
106:27  and make their descendants fall among the nations, and he would scatter them throughout the lands.
106:28  Then they yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor, and they ate sacrifices offered to dead gods.
106:29  They provoked the Lord by their actions, and a plague broke out among them.
106:30  But Phinehas stood up and interceded for them, and the plague was restrained.
106:31  So this was credited to him as righteousness for generation after generation, to eternity.
106:32  Again by the waters of Meribah they provoked the Lord, and trouble came on Moses because of them.
106:33  Because they rebelled against his Spirit, Moses spoke recklessly with his lips.
106:34  They did not destroy the peoples as the Lord had commanded them,
106:35  but they mixed with the nations, and they learned to do what the nations did.
106:36  They also served their idols, and the idols became a snare for them.
106:37  They also 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. So the land was polluted by their children’s blood,
106:39  and they made themselves unclean by what they did. They prostituted themselves by their actions.
106:40  Therefore the Lord burned with anger against his people, and he loathed the people who belonged to him.
106:41  So he handed them over to the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.
106:42  Then their enemies oppressed them, and they had to submit to their power.
106:43  Many times he delivered them, but they deliberately rebelled, and they sank down in their guilt.
106:44  But he looked on them in their distress when he heard their outcry.
106:45  So for their sake he remembered his covenant. Because of his great mercy, he changed his course.
106:46  Then he caused all their captors to have pity on them.
106:47  Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from the nations, so that we may give thanks to your holy name and praise you confidently.
106:48  Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from eternity to eternity, and all the people say, “Amen!” Praise the Lord.