Psalms 106:1-39 ▼

1 Praise YAH, give thanks to YHWH, for [He is] good, for His kindness [is] for all time!

2 Who utters the mighty acts of YHWH? Sounds all His praise?

3 O the blessedness of those keeping judgment, || Doing righteousness at all times.

4 Remember me, O YHWH, || With the favor of Your people, || Look after me in Your salvation.

5 To look on the good of Your chosen ones, || To rejoice in the joy of Your nation, || To boast myself with Your inheritance.

6 We have sinned with our fathers, || We have done perversely, we have done wickedly.

7 Our fathers in Egypt, || Have not considered wisely Your wonders, || They have not remembered || The abundance of Your kind acts, || And provoke by the sea, at the Sea of Suph.

8 And He saves them for His Name’s sake, || To make His might known,

9 And rebukes the Sea of Suph, and it is dried up, || And causes them to go || Through depths as a wilderness.

10 And He saves them from the hand || Of him who is hating, || And redeems them from the hand of the enemy.

11 And waters cover their adversaries, || One of them has not been left.

12 And they believe in His words, they sing His praise,

13 They have hurried—forgotten His works, || They have not waited for His counsel.

14 And they lust greatly in a wilderness, || And try God in a desert.

15 And He gives to them their request, || And sends leanness into their soul.

16 And they are envious of Moses in the camp, || Of Aaron, YHWH’s holy one.

17 Earth opens, and swallows up Dathan, || And covers over the company of Abiram.

18 And fire burns among their company, || A flame sets the wicked on fire.

19 They make a calf in Horeb, || And bow themselves to a molten image,

20 And change their glory || Into the form of an ox eating herbs.

21 They have forgotten God their Savior, || The doer of great things in Egypt,

22 Of wonderful things in the land of Ham, || Of fearful things by the Sea of Suph.

23 And He commands to destroy them, || Unless Moses, His chosen one, || Had stood in the breach before Him, || To turn back His wrath from destroying.

24 And they kick against the desirable land, || They have not given credence to His word.

25 And they murmur in their tents, || They have not listened to the voice of YHWH.

26 And He lifts up His hand to them, || To cause them to fall in a wilderness,

27 And to cause their seed to fall among nations, || And to scatter them through lands.

28 And they are coupled to Ba‘al-Peor, || And eat the sacrifices of the dead,

29 And they provoke to anger by their actions, || And a plague breaks forth on them,

30 And Phinehas stands, and executes judgment, || And the plague is restrained,

31 And it is reckoned to him for righteousness, || From generation to generation—for all time.

32 And they cause wrath by the waters of Meribah, || And it is evil to Moses for their sakes,

33 For they have provoked his spirit, || And he speaks wrongfully with his lips.

34 They have not destroyed the peoples, || As YHWH had commanded to them,

35 And mix themselves among nations, and learn their works,

36 And serve their idols, || And they are for a snare to them.

37 And they sacrifice their sons and their daughters to the demons,

38 And they shed innocent blood—Blood of their sons and of their daughters, || Whom they have sacrificed to idols of Canaan, || And the land is profaned with blood.

39 And they are defiled with their works, || And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.