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Psalm 106

¹Praise the Lord! O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever.

²Who can utter the mighty doings of the Lord, or declare all his praise?

³Happy are those who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times.

⁴Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people; help me when you deliver them;

⁵that I may see the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory in your heritage.

⁶Both we and our ancestors have sinned; we have committed iniquity, have done wickedly.

⁷Our ancestors, when they were in Egypt, did not consider your wonderful works; they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love, but rebelled against the Most High at the Red Sea.

⁸Yet he saved them for his name’s sake, so that he might make known his mighty power.

⁹He rebuked the Red Sea, and it became dry; he led them through the deep as through a desert.

¹⁰So he saved them from the hand of the foe, and delivered them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹The waters covered their adversaries; not one of them was left.

¹²Then they believed his words; they sang his praise.

¹³But they soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.

¹⁴But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness, and put God to the test in the desert;

¹⁵he gave them what they asked, but sent a wasting disease among them.

¹⁶They were jealous of Moses in the camp, and of Aaron, the holy one of the Lord.

¹⁷The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the faction of Abiram.

¹⁸Fire also broke out in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

¹⁹They made a calf at Horeb and worshiped a cast image.

²⁰They exchanged the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass.

²¹They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,

²²wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.

²³Therefore he said he would destroy them— had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.

²⁴Then they despised the pleasant land, having no faith in his promise.

²⁵They grumbled in their tents, and did not obey the voice of the Lord.

²⁶Therefore he raised his hand and swore to them that he would make them fall in the wilderness,

²⁷and would disperse their descendants among the nations, scattering them over the lands.

²⁸Then they attached themselves to the Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead;

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

³⁰Then Phinehas stood up and interceded, and the plague was stopped.

³¹And that has been reckoned to him as righteousness from generation to generation forever.

³²They angered the Lord at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account;

³³for they made his spirit bitter, and he spoke words that were rash.

³⁴They did not destroy the peoples, as the Lord commanded them,

³⁵but they mingled with the nations and learned to do as they did.

³⁶They served their idols, which became a snare to them.

³⁷They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons;

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

³⁹Thus they became unclean by their acts, and prostituted themselves in their doings.

⁴⁰Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people, and he abhorred his heritage;

⁴¹he gave them into the hand of the nations, so that those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴²Their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their power.

⁴³Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their purposes, and were brought low through their iniquity.

⁴⁴Nevertheless he regarded their distress when he heard their cry.

⁴⁵For their sake he remembered his covenant, and showed compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

⁴⁶He caused them to be pitied by all who held them captive.

⁴⁷Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.

⁴⁸Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. And let all the people say, “Amen.” Praise the Lord!

Psalm 107

¹O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever.

²Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, those he redeemed from trouble

³and gathered in from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.

⁴Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to an inhabited town;

⁵hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them.

⁶Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress;

⁷he led them by a straight way, until they reached an inhabited town.

⁸Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wonderful works to humankind.

⁹For he satisfies the thirsty, and the hungry he fills with good things.

¹⁰Some sat in darkness and in gloom, prisoners in misery and in irons,

¹¹for they had rebelled against the words of God, and spurned the counsel of the Most High.

¹²Their hearts were bowed down with hard labor; they fell down, with no one to help.

¹³Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress;

¹⁴he brought them out of darkness and gloom, and broke their bonds asunder.

¹⁵Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wonderful works to humankind.

¹⁶For he shatters the doors of bronze, and cuts in two the bars of iron.

¹⁷Some were sick through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities endured affliction;

¹⁸they loathed any kind of food, and they drew near to the gates of death.

¹⁹Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress;

²⁰he sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from destruction.

²¹Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wonderful works to humankind.

²²And let them offer thanksgiving sacrifices, and tell of his deeds with songs of joy.

²³Some went down to the sea in ships, doing business on the mighty waters;

²⁴they saw the deeds of the Lord, his wondrous works in the deep.

²⁵For he commanded and raised the stormy wind, which lifted up the waves of the sea.

²⁶They mounted up to heaven, they went down to the depths; their courage melted away in their calamity;

²⁷they reeled and staggered like drunkards, and were at their wits’ end.

²⁸Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he brought them out from their distress;

²⁹he made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed.

³⁰Then they were glad because they had quiet, and he brought them to their desired haven.

³¹Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wonderful works to humankind.

³²Let them extol him in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.

³³He turns rivers into a desert, springs of water into thirsty ground,

³⁴a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

³⁵He turns a desert into pools of water, a parched land into springs of water.

³⁶And there he lets the hungry live, and they establish a town to live in;

³⁷they sow fields, and plant vineyards, and get a fruitful yield.

³⁸By his blessing they multiply greatly, and he does not let their cattle decrease.

³⁹When they are diminished and brought low through oppression, trouble, and sorrow,

⁴⁰he pours contempt on princes and makes them wander in trackless wastes;

⁴¹but he raises up the needy out of distress, and makes their families like flocks.

⁴²The upright see it and are glad; and all wickedness stops its mouth.

⁴³Let those who are wise give heed to these things, and consider the steadfast love of the Lord.