Psalms 106 — NETB

106Verse 1Praise the Lord!
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,
and his loyal love endures!
^{Verse 2}Who can adequately recount the Lord’s mighty acts,
or relate all his praiseworthy deeds?
^{Verse 3}How blessed are those who promote justice,
and do what is right all the time!
^{Verse 4}Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people!
Pay attention to me, when you deliver,
^{Verse 5}so I may see the prosperity of your chosen ones,
rejoice along with your nation,
and boast along with the people who belong to you.
^{Verse 6}We have sinned like our ancestors;
we have done wrong, we have done evil.
^{Verse 7}Our ancestors in Egypt failed to appreciate your miraculous deeds,
they failed to remember your many acts of loyal love,
and they rebelled at the sea, by the Red Sea.
^{Verse 8}Yet he delivered them for the sake of his reputation,
that he might reveal his power.
^{Verse 9}He shouted at the Red Sea and it dried up;
he led them through the deep water as if it were a desert.
^{Verse 10}He delivered them from the power of the one who hated them,
and rescued them from the power of the enemy.
^{Verse 11}The water covered their enemies;
not even one of them survived.
^{Verse 12}They believed his promises;
they sang praises to him.
^{Verse 13}They quickly forgot what he had done;
they did not wait for his instructions.
^{Verse 14}In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat;
they challenged God in the desert.
^{Verse 15}He granted their request,
then struck them with a disease.
^{Verse 16}In the camp they resented Moses,
and Aaron, the Lord’s holy priest.
^{Verse 17}The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;
it engulfed the group led by Abiram.
^{Verse 18}Fire burned their group;
the flames scorched the wicked.
^{Verse 19}They made an image of a calf at Horeb,
and worshiped a metal idol.
^{Verse 20}They traded their majestic God
for the image of an ox that eats grass.
^{Verse 21}They rejected the God who delivered them,
the one who performed great deeds in Egypt,
^{Verse 22}amazing feats in the land of Ham,
mighty acts by the Red Sea.
^{Verse 23}He threatened to destroy them,
but Moses, his chosen one, interceded with him
and turned back his destructive anger.
^{Verse 24}They rejected the fruitful land;
they did not believe his promise.
^{Verse 25}They grumbled in their tents;
they did not obey the Lord.
^{Verse 26}So he made a solemn vow
that he would make them die in the desert,
^{Verse 27}make their descendants die among the nations,
and scatter them among foreign lands.
^{Verse 28}They worshiped Baal of Peor,
and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
^{Verse 29}They made the Lord angry by their actions,
and a plague broke out among them.
^{Verse 30}Phinehas took a stand and intervened,
and the plague subsided.
^{Verse 31}This brought him a reward,
an eternal gift.
^{Verse 32}They made him angry by the waters of Meribah,
and Moses suffered because of them,
^{Verse 33}for they aroused his temper,
and he spoke rashly.
^{Verse 34}They did not destroy the nations,
as the Lord had commanded them to do.
^{Verse 35}They mixed in with the nations
and learned their ways.
^{Verse 36}They worshiped their idols,
which became a snare to them.
^{Verse 37}They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.
^{Verse 38}They shed innocent blood –
the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan.
The land was polluted by bloodshed.
^{Verse 39}They were defiled by their deeds,
and unfaithful in their actions.
^{Verse 40}So the Lord was angry with his people
and despised the people who belong to him.
^{Verse 41}He handed them over to the nations,
and those who hated them ruled over them.
^{Verse 42}Their enemies oppressed them;
they were subject to their authority.
^{Verse 43}Many times he delivered them,
but they had a rebellious attitude,
and degraded themselves by their sin.
^{Verse 44}Yet he took notice of their distress,
when he heard their cry for help.
^{Verse 45}He remembered his covenant with them,
and relented because of his great loyal love.
^{Verse 46}He caused all their conquerors
to have pity on them.
^{Verse 47}Deliver us, O Lord, our God!
Gather us from among the nations!
Then we will give thanks to your holy name,
and boast about your praiseworthy deeds.
^{Verse 48}The Lord God of Israel deserves praise,
in the future and forevermore.
Let all the people say, “We agree! Praise the Lord!”