Psalm 106

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Give Thanks to the LORD, for He Is Good

¹Hallelujah!^a

Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good;

His loving devotion endures forever.

¹Hallelujah! Give thanks to YHWH for He is good, for His loving devotion is forever!

²Who can describe the mighty acts of the LORD

or fully proclaim His praise?

²Who can describe the mighty acts of YHWH? Who can sound all His praise?

³Blessed are those who uphold justice,

who practice righteousness at all times.

³Blessed are those guarding justice, doing righteousness at every time.

⁴Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people;

visit me with Your salvation,

⁴Remember me, O YHWH, in favor to Your people; attend to me with Your salvation,

⁵that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones,

and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation,

and give glory with Your inheritance.

⁵to look on the prosperity of Your chosen ones, and to be glad in the gladness of Your nation, and to glory with Your inheritance.

⁶We have sinned like our fathers;

we have done wrong and acted wickedly.

⁶We have sinned, with our fathers; we have been perverse; we have acted wickedly.

⁷Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders

or remember Your abundant kindness;

but they rebelled by the sea,

there at the Red Sea.^a

⁷Our fathers in Egypt did not consider Your wonders; they did not remember the abundance of Your kindness; and they rebelled by the sea—at the Sea of Reeds.

⁸Yet He saved them for the sake of His name,

to make His power known.

⁸And He saved them for the sake of His name, to make known His might.

⁹He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;

He led them through the depths as through a desert.

⁹And He rebuked the Sea of Reeds, and it dried up, and He made them walk through the depths as through a desert.

¹⁰He saved them from the hand that hated them;

He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

¹⁰And He saved them from the hand of the one hating, and He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹The waters covered their foes;

not one of them remained.

¹¹For the waters covered their enemies; not one of them remained.

¹²Then they believed His promises

and sang His praise.

¹²And they had faith in His words; they sang His praise.

¹³Yet they soon forgot His works

and failed to wait for His counsel.

¹³They were quick to forget His works; they have not wait for His counsel;

¹⁴They craved intensely in the wilderness

and tested God in the desert.

¹⁴and they craved with desire in the wilderness, and they tested God in the desert.

¹⁵So He granted their request,

but sent a wasting disease upon them.

¹⁵And He gave to them their request, and He sent leanness upon their soul.

¹⁶In the camp they envied Moses,

as well as Aaron, the holy one of the LORD.

¹⁶And they were jealous of Moses in the camp, of Aaron, the holy one of YHWH.

¹⁷The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;

it covered the assembly of Abiram.

¹⁷The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan, and it covered over the company of Abiram.

¹⁸Then fire blazed through their company;

flames consumed the wicked.

¹⁸And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame consumed the wicked.

¹⁹At Horeb^a they made a calf

and worshiped a molten image.

¹⁹They made a calf in Horeb, and they bowed down to a molten image.

²⁰They exchanged their Glory^a

for the image of a grass-eating ox.

²⁰And they exchanged their Glory for the image of an ox eating grass.

²¹They forgot God their Savior,

who did great things in Egypt,

²¹They forgot God their Savior, the One having done great things in Egypt,

²²wondrous works in the land of Ham,

and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.

²²wonders in the land of Ham, fearful things by the Sea of Reeds.

²³So He said He would destroy them—

had not Moses His chosen one

stood before Him in the breach

to divert His wrath from destroying them.

²³And he said he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen one stood in the breach before His face, to turn away His fury from destroying them.

²⁴They despised the pleasant land;

they did not believe His promise.

²⁴Then they despised the land of the desire; they were not faithful to His word,

²⁵They grumbled in their tents

and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

²⁵and they grumbled in their tents; they did not listen to the voice of YHWH.

²⁶So He raised His hand and swore

to cast them down in the wilderness,

²⁶And He lifted up His hand against them to make them fall in the desert,

²⁷to disperse^a their offspring among the nations

and scatter them throughout the lands.

²⁷and to make their seed fall among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.

²⁸They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor

and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.

²⁸They even joined themselves to Baal-Peor, and they ate sacrifices to the dead.

²⁹So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds,

and a plague broke out among them.

²⁹And they provoked Him to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

³⁰But Phinehas stood and intervened,

and the plague was restrained.

³⁰And Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was restrained.

³¹It was credited to him as righteousness

for endless generations to come.

³¹And it was reckoned to him as righteousness, to generation and generation, even to forever.

³²At the waters of Meribah^a they angered the LORD,

and trouble came to Moses because of them.

³²And they caused wrath at the waters of Meribah, and it was evil to Moses on account of them.

³³For they rebelled against His Spirit,^a

and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.

³³For they rebelled against his spirit, and he spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴They did not destroy the peoples

as the LORD had commanded them,

³⁴They did not destroy the peoples whom YHWH had given to them the order.

³⁵but they mingled with the nations

and adopted their customs.

³⁵And they mingled with the nations, and they learned their works.

³⁶They worshiped their idols,

which became a snare to them.

³⁶And they served their idols, and they were to them as a snare.

³⁷They sacrificed their sons

and their daughters to demons.

³⁷And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons;

³⁸They shed innocent blood—

the blood of their sons and daughters,

whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,

and the land was polluted with blood.

³⁸and they shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with the blood.

³⁹They defiled themselves by their actions

and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

³⁹And they were defiled by their deeds and prostituted themselves by their practices.

⁴⁰So the anger of the LORD burned against His people,

and He abhorred His own inheritance.

⁴⁰And the anger of YHWH was kindled against His people, and He came to abhor His inheritance.

⁴¹He delivered them into the hand of the nations,

and those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴¹And He gave them into the hand of the nations, and those hating them ruled over them.

⁴²Their enemies oppressed them

and subdued them under their hand.

⁴²And their enemies oppressed them, and they were humbled under their hand.

⁴³Many times He rescued them,

but they were bent on rebellion

and sank down in their iniquity.

⁴³Many times He delivered them, and they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.

⁴⁴Nevertheless He heard their cry;

He took note of their distress.

⁴⁴And He looked on the distress to them in His hearing their cry.

⁴⁵And He remembered His covenant with them,

and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

⁴⁵And He remembered unto them His covenant, and He relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

⁴⁶He made them objects of compassion

to all who held them captive.

⁴⁶And He appointed them for mercies before the face of all their captors.

⁴⁷Save us, O LORD our God,

and gather us from the nations,

that we may give thanks to Your holy name,

that we may glory in Your praise.

⁴⁷Save us, O YHWH our God, and gather us from the nations, to give thanks to the name of Your holiness, to glory in Your praise!

⁴⁸Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel,

from everlasting to everlasting.

Let all the people say, “Amen!”

Hallelujah!

⁴⁸Blessed be YHWH the God of Israel from forever and even to forever. And let all the people say, “Amen!” Praise YAH!