106 Praise the Lord .
Give thanks to the Lord , for he is good,
and his loyal love endures. [ b ]
2 Who can adequately
recount the Lord ’s mighty acts,
or relate all his praiseworthy deeds? [ c ]
3 How blessed are those
who promote justice,
and do what is right all the time.
4 Remember me, O Lord , when you show favor to your people.
Pay attention to me, when you deliver,
5 so I may see the
prosperity [ d ] of your chosen ones,
rejoice along with your nation, [ e ]
and boast along with the people who belong to you. [ f ]
6 We have sinned like [ g ] our ancestors; [ h ]
we have done wrong, we have done evil.
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. [ i ]
8 Yet he delivered them
for the sake of his reputation, [ j ]
that he might reveal his power.
9 He shouted at [ k ] the Red Sea and it dried up;
he led them through the deep water as if it were a
desert.
10 He delivered them from
the power [ l ] of the one who hated them,
and rescued [ m ] them from the power [ n ] of the enemy.
11 The water covered their
enemies;
not even one of them survived. [ o ]
12 They believed his
promises; [ p ]
they sang praises to him.
13 They quickly forgot
what he had done; [ q ]
they did not wait for his instructions. [ r ]
14 In the wilderness they
had an insatiable craving [ s ] for meat; [ t ]
they challenged God [ u ] in the wastelands.
15 He granted their
request,
then struck them with a disease. [ v ]
16 In the camp they
resented [ w ] Moses,
and Aaron, the Lord ’s holy priest. [ x ]
17 The earth opened up and
swallowed Dathan;
it engulfed [ y ] the group led by Abiram. [ z ]
18 Fire burned their
group;
the flames scorched the wicked. [ aa ]
19 They made an image of a
calf at Horeb,
and worshiped a metal idol.
20 They traded their
majestic God [ ab ]
for the image of an ox that eats grass.
21 They rejected [ ac ] the God who delivered them,
the one who performed great deeds in Egypt,
22 amazing feats in the
land of Ham,
mighty acts [ ad ] by the Red Sea.
23 He threatened [ ae ] to destroy them,
but [ af ] Moses, his chosen one, interceded with him [ ag ]
and turned back his destructive anger. [ ah ]
24 They rejected the
fruitful land; [ ai ]
they did not believe his promise. [ aj ]
25 They grumbled in their
tents; [ ak ]
they did not obey [ al ] the Lord .
26 So he made a solemn
vow [ am ]
that he would make them die [ an ] in the wilderness,
27 make their
descendants [ ao ] die [ ap ] among the nations,
and scatter them among foreign lands. [ aq ]
28 They worshiped [ ar ] Baal of Peor,
and ate sacrifices offered to the dead. [ as ]
29 They made the Lord angry [ at ] by their actions,
and a plague broke out among them.
30 Phinehas took a stand
and intervened, [ au ]
and the plague subsided.
31 This was credited to
Phinehas as a righteous act
for all generations to come. [ av ]
32 They made him angry by
the waters of Meribah,
and Moses suffered [ aw ] because of them,
33 for they aroused [ ax ] his temper, [ ay ]
and he spoke rashly. [ az ]
34 They did not destroy
the nations, [ ba ]
as the Lord had commanded them to do.
35 They mixed in with the
nations
and learned their ways. [ bb ]
36 They worshiped [ bc ] their idols,
which became a snare to them. [ bd ]
37 They sacrificed their
sons and daughters to demons. [ be ]
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. [ bf ]
39 They were defiled by
their deeds,
and unfaithful in their actions. [ bg ]
40 So the Lord was angry with his people [ bh ]
and despised the people who belonged to him. [ bi ]
41 He handed them over
to [ bj ] the nations,
and those who hated them ruled over them.
42 Their enemies oppressed
them;
they were subject to their authority. [ bk ]
43 Many times he
delivered [ bl ] them,
but they had a rebellious attitude, [ bm ]
and degraded themselves [ bn ] by their sin.
44 Yet he took notice of
their distress,
when he heard their cry for help.
45 He remembered his
covenant with them,
and relented [ bo ] because of his great loyal love.
46 He caused all their
conquerors [ bp ]
to have pity on them.
47 Deliver us, O Lord , our God.
Gather us from among the nations.
Then we will give thanks [ bq ] to your holy name,
and boast about your praiseworthy deeds. [ br ]
48 The Lord God of Israel deserves praise, [ bs ]
in the future and forevermore. [ bt ]
Let all the people say, “We agree! [ bu ] Praise the Lord !” [ bv ]