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106:1  Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His faithful love endures forever.
106:2  Who can declare the LORD's mighty acts or proclaim all the praise due Him?
106:3  How happy are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times.
106:4  Remember me, LORD, when You show favor to Your people. Come to me with Your salvation
106:5  so that I may enjoy the prosperity of Your chosen ones, rejoice in the joy of Your nation, and boast about Your heritage.
106:6  Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have done wrong and have acted wickedly.
106:7  Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp the significance of Your wonderful works or remember Your many acts of faithful love; instead, they rebelled by the sea--the Red Sea.
106:8  Yet He saved them because of His name, to make His power known.
106:9  He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.
106:10  He saved them from the hand of the adversary; He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
106:11  Water covered their foes; not one of them remained.
106:12  Then they believed His promises and sang His praise.
106:13  They soon forgot His works and would not wait for His counsel.
106:14  They were seized with craving in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.
106:15  He gave them what they asked for, but sent a wasting disease among them.
106:16  In the camp they were envious of Moses and of Aaron, the LORD's holy one.
106:17  The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.
106:18  Fire blazed throughout their assembly; flames consumed the wicked.
106:19  At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped the cast metal image.
106:20  They exchanged their glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.
106:21  They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,
106:22  wonderful works in the land of Ham, awe-inspiring acts at the Red Sea.
106:23  So He said He would have destroyed them-- if Moses His chosen one had not stood before Him in the breach to turn His wrath away from destroying them.
106:24  They despised the pleasant land and did not believe His promise.
106:25  They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the LORD's voice.
106:26  So He raised His hand against them with an oath that He would make them fall in the desert
106:27  and would disperse their descendants among the nations, scattering them throughout the lands.
106:28  They aligned themselves with Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
106:29  They provoked the LORD with their deeds, and a plague broke out against them.
106:30  But Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was stopped.
106:31  It was credited to him as righteousness throughout all generations to come.
106:32  They angered the LORD at the waters of Meribah, and Moses suffered because of them;
106:33  for they embittered his spirit, and he spoke rashly with his lips.
106:34  They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them
106:35  but mingled with the nations and adopted their ways.
106:36  They served their idols, which became a snare to 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; so the land became polluted with blood.
106:39  They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
106:40  Therefore the LORD's anger burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.
106:41  He handed them over to the nations; those who hated them ruled them.
106:42  Their enemies oppressed them, and they were subdued under their power.
106:43  He rescued them many times, but they continued to rebel deliberately and were beaten down by their sin.
106:44  When He heard their cry, He took note of their distress,
106:45  remembered His covenant with them, and relented according to the riches of His faithful love.
106:46  He caused them to be pitied before all their captors.
106:47  Save us, Yahweh our God, and gather us from the nations, so that we may give thanks to Your holy name and rejoice in Your praise.
106:48  May Yahweh, the God of Israel, be praised from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, "Amen!" Hallelujah!