Psalms 106
- 1Hallelujah! Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his loving-kindness [supplied: endureth] for ever.
- 2Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah? [supplied: who] can shew forth all his praise?
- 3Blessed are they that keep justice, [supplied: and] he that doeth righteousness at all times.
- 4Remember me, O Jehovah, with [supplied: thy] favour toward thy people; visit me with thy salvation:
- 5That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the joy of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.
- 6We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
- 7Our fathers in Egypt considered not thy wondrous works; they remembered not the multitude of thy loving-kindnesses; but they rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea.
- 8Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his might.
- 9And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; and he led them through the deeps as through a wilderness.
- 10And he saved them from the hand of him that hated [supplied: them], and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
- 11And the waters covered their oppressors: there was not one of them left.
- 12Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.
- 13They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:
- 14And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
- 15Then he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.
- 16And they envied Moses in the camp, [supplied: and] Aaron, the saint of Jehovah.
- 17The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram;
- 18And fire was kindled in their company; a flame burned up the wicked.
- 19They made a calf in Horeb, and did homage to a molten image;
- 20And they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
- 21They forgot God their Saviour, who had done great things in Egypt,
- 22Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.
- 23And he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the breach, to turn away his fury, lest he should destroy [supplied: them].
- 24And they despised the pleasant land; they believed not his word,
- 25But murmured in their tents: they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah.
- 26And he lifted up his hand to them, that he would make them fall in the wilderness;
- 27And that he would make their seed fall among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.
- 28And they joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead;
- 29And they provoked [supplied: him] to anger with their doings; and a plague broke out among them.
- 30Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment, and the plague was stayed;
- 31And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness, from generation to generation, for evermore.
- 32And they moved him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account;
- 33For they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.
- 34They did not destroy the peoples, as Jehovah commanded them;
- 35But they mingled with the nations, and learned their works;
- 36And they served their idols; and they were a snare unto them:
- 37And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,
- 38And shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.
- 39And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings.
- 40Then was the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance;
- 41And he gave them into the hand of the nations; and they that hated them ruled over them:
- 42And their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.
- 43Often did he deliver them; but as for them they provoked [supplied: him] by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquity.
- 44But he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry;
- 45And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses;
- 46And he caused them to find compassion of all those that had carried them captives.
- 47Save us, Jehovah our God, and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks unto thy holy name, [supplied: and] to triumph in thy praise.
- 48Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, from eternity and to eternity! And let all the people say, Amen! Hallelujah!
Words in italics were supplied by the translators.
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