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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 solemn 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!