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106:1  Hallelujah! Give thanks to the Lord, who is good, whose mercy endures forever.
106:2  Who can recount the mighty deeds of the Lord, proclaim in full God’s praise?
106:3  Blessed those who do what is right, whose deeds are always just.
106:4  Remember me, Lord, as you favor your people; come to me with your saving help,
106:5  That I may see the prosperity of your chosen ones, rejoice in the joy of your people, and glory with your heritage.
106:6  We have sinned like our ancestors; we have done wrong and are guilty.
106:7  Our ancestors in Egypt did not attend to your wonders. They did not remember your manifold mercy; they defied the Most High at the Red Sea.
106:8  Yet he saved them for his name’s sake to make his power known.
106:9  He roared at the Red Sea and it dried up. He led them through the deep as through a desert.
106:10  He rescued them from hostile hands, freed them from the power of the enemy.
106:11  The waters covered their oppressors; not one of them survived.
106:12  Then they believed his words and sang his praise.
106:13  But they soon forgot all he had done; they had no patience for his plan.
106:14  In the desert they gave in to their cravings, tempted God in the wasteland.
106:15  So he gave them what they asked and sent a wasting disease against them.
106:16  In the camp they challenged Moses and Aaron, the holy one of the Lord.
106:17  The earth opened and swallowed Dathan, it closed on the followers of Abiram.
106:18  Against their company the fire blazed; flames consumed the wicked.
106:19  At Horeb they fashioned a calf, worshiped a metal statue.
106:20  They exchanged their glory for the image of a grass-eating bull.
106:21  They forgot the God who had saved them, who had done great deeds in Egypt,
106:22  Amazing deeds in the land of Ham, fearsome deeds at the Red Sea.
106:23  He would have decreed their destruction, had not Moses, his chosen one, Withstood him in the breach to turn back his destroying anger.
106:24  Next they despised the beautiful land; they did not believe the promise.
106:25  In their tents they complained; they did not heed the voice of the Lord.
106:26  So with raised hand he swore he would destroy them in the desert,
106:27  And scatter their descendants among the nations, disperse them in foreign lands.
106:28  They joined in the rites of Baal of Peor, ate food sacrificed to the dead.
106:29  They provoked him by their actions, and a plague broke out among them.
106:30  Then Phinehas rose to intervene, and the plague was brought to a halt.
106:31  This was counted for him as a righteous deed for all generations to come.
106:32  At the waters of Meribah they angered God, and Moses suffered because of them.
106:33  They so embittered his spirit that rash words crossed his lips.
106:34  They did not destroy the peoples as the Lord had commanded them,
106:35  But mingled with the nations and imitated their ways.
106:36  They served their idols and were ensnared by them.
106:37  They sacrificed to demons their own sons and daughters,
106:38  Shedding innocent blood, the blood of their own sons and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, desecrating the land with bloodshed.
106:39  They defiled themselves by their actions, became adulterers by their conduct.
106:40  So the Lord grew angry with his people, abhorred his own heritage.
106:41  He handed them over to the nations, and their adversaries ruled over them.
106:42  Their enemies oppressed them, kept them under subjection.
106:43  Many times did he rescue them, but they kept rebelling and scheming and were brought low by their own guilt.
106:44  Still God had regard for their affliction when he heard their wailing.
106:45  For their sake he remembered his covenant and relented in his abundant mercy,
106:46  Winning for them compassion from all who held them captive.
106:47  Save us, Lord, our God; 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 to everlasting! Let all the people say, Amen! Hallelujah!