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106:1  Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!) Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; For His mercy and lovingkindness endure forever!
106:2  Who can put into words the mighty deeds of the Lord? Or who can proclaim all His praise [that is due Him]?
106:3  Blessed are those who observe justice [by honoring God’s precepts], Who practice righteousness at all times.
106:4  Remember me, O Lord, when You favor Your people. Visit me with Your salvation [when You rescue them],
106:5  That I may see the prosperity 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 like our fathers; We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.
106:7  Our fathers in Egypt did not understand nor appreciate Your miracles; They did not remember the abundance of Your mercies nor imprint Your lovingkindnesses on their hearts, But they were rebellious at the sea, at the Red Sea.
106:8  Nevertheless He saved them for His name’s sake, That He might make His [supreme] power known.
106:9  He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; And He led them through the depths as through a pasture.
106:10  So He saved them from the hand of the one that hated them, And redeemed them from the hand of the [Egyptian] enemy.
106:11  And the waters covered their adversaries; Not one of them was left.
106:12  Then Israel believed in [the validity of] His words; They sang His praise.
106:13  But they quickly forgot His works; They did not [patiently] wait for His counsel and purpose [to be revealed regarding them],
106:14  But lusted intensely in the wilderness And tempted God [with their insistent desires] in the desert.
106:15  So He gave them their request, But sent a wasting disease among them.
106:16  They envied Moses in the camp, And Aaron [the high priest], the holy one of the Lord,
106:17  Therefore the earth opened and swallowed Dathan, And engulfed the company of Abiram.
106:18  And a fire broke out in their company; The flame consumed the wicked.
106:19  They made a calf in Horeb (Sinai) And worshiped a cast image.
106:20  Thus they exchanged [the true God who was] their glory For the image of an ox that eats grass.
106:21  They forgot God their Savior, Who had done such great things in Egypt,
106:22  Wonders in the land of Ham, Awesome things at the Red Sea.
106:23  Therefore He said He would destroy them, [And He would have done so] had not Moses, His chosen one, stepped into the gap before Him, To turn away His wrath from destroying them.
106:24  Then they despised the pleasant land [of Canaan]; They did not believe in His word nor rely on it,
106:25  But they sulked and complained in their tents; They did not listen to the voice of the Lord.
106:26  Therefore He lifted up His hand [swearing] to them, That He would cause them to fall in the wilderness,
106:27  And that He would cast out their descendants among the nations And scatter them in the lands [of the earth].
106:28  They joined themselves also to [the idol] Baal of Peor, And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
106:29  Thus they provoked Him to anger with their practices, And a plague broke out among them.
106:30  Then Phinehas [the priest] stood up and interceded, And so the plague was halted.
106:31  And that was credited to him for righteousness, To all generations forever.
106:32  They provoked Him to anger at the waters of Meribah, So that it went hard with Moses on their account;
106:33  Because they were rebellious against His Spirit, Moses spoke recklessly with his lips.
106:34  They did not destroy the [pagan] peoples [in Canaan], As the Lord commanded them,
106:35  But they mingled with the [idolatrous] nations And learned their ways,
106:36  And served their idols, Which became a [dreadful] snare to them.
106:37  They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons
106:38  And shed innocent blood, Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with their blood.
106:39  In this way they became unclean in their practices; They played the prostitute in their own deeds [by giving their worship, which belongs to God alone, to other “gods”].
106:40  Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against His people And He detested His own inheritance.
106:41  He gave them into the hands of the nations, And those who hated them ruled over them.
106:42  Their enemies also oppressed them, And they were subdued under the [powerful] hand of their enemies.
106:43  Many times He rescued them; But they were rebellious in their counsel, And sank down in their wickedness.
106:44  Nevertheless He looked [sympathetically] at their distress When He heard their cry;
106:45  And He remembered His covenant for their sake, And relented [rescinding their sentence] according to the greatness of His lovingkindness [when they cried out to Him],
106:46  He also made them objects of compassion Among those who had carried them away captive.
106:47  Save us, O Lord our God, And gather us from among the nations, That we may give thanks to Your holy name And glory in praising You.
106:48  Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, From everlasting even to everlasting. And let all the people say, “Amen.” Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)