106:1 Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, who is good, whose love endures forever.
106:2 Who can tell the mighty deeds of the LORD, proclaim in full God’s praise?
106:3 Happy 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 savinghelp,
106:5 That I may see the prosperity of your chosen, rejoice in the joy of yourpeople, and glory with your heritage.
106:6 We have sinned like our ancestors; we have done wrong and are guilty.I
106:7 Our ancestors in Egypt did not attend to your wonders. They did not rememberyour great love; 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 asthrough 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 songs of praise.II
106:13 But they soon forgot all he had done; they had no patience for his plan.
106:14 In the desert they gave way to their cravings, tempted God in the wasteland.
106:15 So he gave them what they asked and sent among them a wasting disease.III
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 that company the fire blazed; flames consumed the wicked.IV
106:19 At Horeb they fashioned a calf, worshiped a metal statue.
106:20 They exchanged their glorious God for the image of a grass-eating bull.
106:21 They forgot the God who saved them, who did 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, the chosen leader,Withstood him in the breach to turn back his destroying anger.V
106:24 Next they despised the beautiful land; they did not believe the promise.
106:25 In their tents they complained; they did not obey the LORD.
106:26 So with raised hand he swore to destroy them in the desert,
106:27 To scatter their descendants among the nations, disperse them in foreignlands.VI
106:28 They joined in the rites of Baal of Peor, ate food sacrificed to dead gods.
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.VII
106:32 At the waters of Meribah they angered God, and Moses suffered because ofthem.
106:33 They so embittered his spirit that rash words crossed his lips.VIII
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 worshiped their idols and were ensnared by them.
106:37 They sacrificed to the gods their own sons and daughters,
106:38 Shedding innocent blood, the blood of their own sons and daughters, Whomthey sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, desecrating the land with bloodshed.
106:39 They defiled themselves by their actions, became adulterers by theirconduct.
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 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 werebrought 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 love,
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 givethanks to your holy name and glory in praising you.
106:48 Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Letall the people say, Amen! Hallelujah!