PSALM 106
1Hallelujah!
Acclaim the LORD, for He is good,
for His kindness is forever.
2Who can utter the LORD’s mighty acts,
can make heard all His praise?
3Happy those who keep justice,
who do righteousness at all times.
4Recall me, O LORD, when You favor Your people,
mark me for Your rescue,
5to see the good of Your chosen ones,
to rejoice in the joy of Your nation,
to revel with Your estate.
6We offended like our fathers,
we wronged, we did evil.
7Our fathers in Egypt
did not grasp Your wonders.
They did not call to mind Your many kindnesses
and rebelled by the sea, at the Sea of Reeds.
8Yet He rescued them for His name’s sake,
to make known His might.
9He blasted the Sea of Reeds, and it dried up,
and He led them through the deep as through wilderness.
10And He rescued them from the hand of the hostile
and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
11And the waters covered their foes,
12And they trusted His words,
13Quickly they forgot His deeds,
they did not await His counsel.
14And they felt a sharp craving in the wilderness,
they put God to the test in the wasteland.
15And He gave them what they had asked,
16And they were jealous of Moses in the camp,
of Aaron, the LORD’s holy one.
17The earth opened and swallowed Dothan
and covered Abiram’s band.
18And fire burned through their band,
flame consumed the wicked.
19They made a calf at Horeb
and bowed to a molten image.
20And they exchanged their glory
for the image of a grass-eating bull.
21They forgot the God their rescuer,
Who did great things in Egypt,
fearsome deeds at the Sea of Reeds.
23And He would have wiped them out
were it not for Moses His chosen one—
he stood in the breach before Him
to turn back His wrath from destruction.
24And they despised the land of desires,
they did not trust His word.
25And they muttered in their tents,
they did not heed the voice of the LORD.
26And He raised His hand against them,
to make them fall in the wilderness,
27to disperse their seed among the nations,
to scatter them among the lands.
28And they clung to Baal Peor
and ate sacrifices to the dead.
29And they provoked Him through their acts,
and the scourge broke out among them.
30And Phineas stood and prayed,
and the scourge was held back
31and it was counted for him as merit,
generation to generation forever.
32And they caused fury over the waters of Meribah,
and it went badly for Moses because of them,
33for they rebelled against him,
and he pronounced rash things with his lips.
34They did not destroy the peoples
as the LORD had said to them.
35And they mingled with the nations
and learned their deeds.
36And they worshipped their idols,
which became a snare to them.
37And they sacrificed their sons
and their daughters to the demons.
38And they shed innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and their daughters
when they sacrificed to Canaan’s idols,
and the land was polluted with bloodguilt.
39And they were defiled through their deeds
and went whoring through their actions.
40And the LORD’s wrath blazed against His people,
41and gave them into the hand of nations,
their haters ruled over them.
42And their enemies oppressed them,
and they were subject to their power.
43Many times did He save them,
and they rebelled against His counsel
and were brought low through their misdeeds.
44And He saw when they were in straits,
when He heard their song of prayer.
45And He recalled for them His pact,
relented through his many kindnesses.
46And He granted them mercy
in the eyes of all their captors.
47Rescue us, LORD our God
and gather us from the nations
to acclaim Your holy name
and to glory in Your praise.
48Blessed is the LORD God of Israel forever and ever. And all the people say: Amen, hallelujah!