Psalm 106:7
New International Version
When our ancestors were in Egypt, they gave no thought to your miracles; they did not remember your many kindnesses, and they rebelled by the sea, the Red Sea.

New Living Translation
Our ancestors in Egypt were not impressed by the LORD’s miraculous deeds. They soon forgot his many acts of kindness to them. Instead, they rebelled against him at the Red Sea.

English Standard Version
Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not consider your wondrous works; they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love, but rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.

Berean Standard Bible
Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.

King James Bible
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.

New King James Version
Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders; They did not remember the multitude of Your mercies, But rebelled by the sea—the Red Sea.

New American Standard Bible
Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders; They did not remember Your abundant kindnesses, But rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.

NASB 1995
Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders; They did not remember Your abundant kindnesses, But rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.

NASB 1977
Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Thy wonders; They did not remember Thine abundant kindnesses, But rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.

Legacy Standard Bible
Our fathers in Egypt did not consider Your wondrous deeds; They did not remember Your abundant lovingkindnesses, But they rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.

Amplified Bible
Our fathers in Egypt did not understand nor appreciate Your miracles; They did not remember the abundance of Your mercies nor imprint Your lovingkindnesses on their hearts, But they were rebellious at the sea, at the Red Sea.

Christian Standard Bible
Our ancestors in Egypt did not grasp the significance of your wondrous works or remember your many acts of faithful love; instead, they rebelled by the sea—the Red Sea.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp the significance of Your wonderful works or remember Your many acts of faithful love; instead, they rebelled by the sea—the Red Sea.

American Standard Version
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; They remembered not the multitude of thy lovingkindnesses, But were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

Contemporary English Version
When they were in Egypt, they paid no attention to your marvelous deeds or your wonderful love. And they turned against you at the Red Sea.

English Revised Version
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When our ancestors were in Egypt, they gave no thought to your miracles. They did not remember your numerous acts of mercy, so they rebelled at the sea, the Red Sea.

Good News Translation
Our ancestors in Egypt did not understand God's wonderful acts; they forgot the many times he showed them his love, and they rebelled against the Almighty at the Red Sea.

International Standard Version
In Egypt, our ancestors neither comprehended your awesome deeds nor remembered your abundant gracious love. Instead, they rebelled beside the sea, the Reed Sea.

Majority Standard Bible
Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.

NET Bible
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.

New Heart English Bible
Our fathers did not understand your wonders in Egypt. They did not remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Sea at the End.

Webster's Bible Translation
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.

World English Bible
Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
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.

Young's Literal Translation
Our fathers in Egypt, Have not considered wisely Thy wonders, They have not remembered The abundance of Thy kind acts, And provoke by the sea, at the sea of Suph.

Smith's Literal Translation
Our fathers considered not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; they embittered at the sea, the sea of sedge;
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up to the sea, even the Red Sea.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Our fathers did not understand your miracles in Egypt. They did not remember the multitude of your mercies. And they provoked you, while going up to the sea, even the Red Sea.

New American Bible
Our ancestors in Egypt did not attend to your wonders. They did not remember your manifold mercy; they defied the Most High at the Red Sea.

New Revised Standard Version
Our 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.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Our fathers in Egypt did not understand your wonders and they did not remember the multitude of your graces when they contended by the waters at the Sea of Reeds.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Our fathers in Egypt gave no heed unto Thy wonders; They remembered not the multitude of Thy mercies; But were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Our fathers in Egypt understood not thy wonders, and remembered not the multitude of thy mercy; but provoked him as they went up by the Red Sea.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Give Thanks to the LORD, for He is Good
6We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and 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. 8Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.…

Cross References
Exodus 14:11-12
They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? / Did we not say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

Exodus 15:24
So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”

Numbers 14:22
not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—

Deuteronomy 9:7
Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.

Nehemiah 9:16-17
But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments. / They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake them.

Nehemiah 9:26
But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.

Psalm 78:11-12
They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them. / He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.

Psalm 78:42-43
They did not remember His power—the day He redeemed them from the adversary, / when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.

Psalm 95:8-9
do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness, / where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.

Isaiah 63:10
But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.

Jeremiah 7:25-26
From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again. / Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.

Ezekiel 20:8
But they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the land of Egypt.

Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

Mark 6:52
for they had not understood about the loaves, but their hearts had been hardened.

Mark 8:17-18
Aware of their conversation, Jesus asked them, “Why are you debating about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Do you have such hard hearts? / ‘Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear?’ And do you not remember?


Treasury of Scripture

Our fathers understood not your wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of your mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.

our

Deuteronomy 29:4
Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

Deuteronomy 32:28,29
For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them…

Proverbs 1:22
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

they

Psalm 78:42
They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.

Psalm 105:5
Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;

Deuteronomy 15:15
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.

multitude

Psalm 106:45
And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

Psalm 5:7
But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

Psalm 51:1
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

but

Exodus 14:11,12
And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt? …

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Psalm 106
1. The psalmist exhorts to praise God
4. He prays for pardon of sin, as God pardoned the fathers
7. The story of the people's rebellion, and God's mercy
47. He concludes with prayer and praise














Our fathers in Egypt
This phrase refers to the ancestors of the Israelites who lived in Egypt during the time of their enslavement. The Hebrew word for "fathers" (אָבוֹת, avot) signifies not just biological ancestors but also spiritual predecessors. This highlights the continuity of the covenant relationship God established with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The mention of Egypt is significant as it represents a place of bondage and oppression, from which God delivered His people. Historically, Egypt was a powerful empire, and the Israelites' deliverance from it was a profound demonstration of God's sovereignty and faithfulness.

did not understand
The Hebrew root for "understand" (בִּין, bin) implies discernment and insight. This phrase suggests a lack of spiritual perception among the Israelites. Despite witnessing God's mighty acts, they failed to grasp the deeper significance of His works. This lack of understanding is a recurring theme in the Old Testament, where the people often forget God's past deliverances and promises. It serves as a cautionary reminder for believers to seek spiritual wisdom and understanding through prayer and study of the Scriptures.

Your wonders
The term "wonders" (נִפְלְאוֹת, nifla'ot) refers to the miraculous acts of God, particularly those performed during the Exodus, such as the plagues and the parting of the Red Sea. These wonders were meant to reveal God's power and glory, serving as signs to both the Israelites and the surrounding nations. In a broader theological context, God's wonders are a testament to His active involvement in the world and His ability to intervene in human history for the sake of His people.

They did not remember
The act of remembering (זָכַר, zakar) in Hebrew culture is more than a mental recall; it involves a conscious decision to act upon what is remembered. The Israelites' failure to remember God's kindness and deliverance is a spiritual shortcoming that leads to disobedience and rebellion. This phrase underscores the importance of remembrance in maintaining faithfulness to God. It encourages believers to regularly recall and celebrate God's past faithfulness as a foundation for trust and obedience.

the abundance of Your kindness
The word "kindness" (חֶסֶד, chesed) is a rich Hebrew term often translated as lovingkindness, mercy, or steadfast love. It denotes God's covenantal loyalty and unfailing love towards His people. The "abundance" of this kindness emphasizes its vastness and generosity. This phrase invites believers to reflect on the depth and breadth of God's love, which is not contingent on human merit but is freely given. It serves as a source of comfort and assurance of God's unwavering commitment to His covenant promises.

but rebelled by the sea, the Red Sea
The act of rebellion (מָרָה, marah) signifies a willful defiance against God's authority. The specific mention of the Red Sea recalls the incident where the Israelites, despite witnessing God's miraculous deliverance from Egypt, doubted His ability to save them from Pharaoh's pursuing army (Exodus 14:10-12). This rebellion at the Red Sea is emblematic of the broader pattern of Israel's disobedience throughout their wilderness journey. It serves as a warning against the dangers of unbelief and ingratitude, urging believers to trust in God's power and provision even in seemingly insurmountable circumstances.

(7) At the sea.--LXX., "going up to the sea." (12) An epitome of Exodus 14:31; Exodus 14:15

Verse 7. - Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; rather, considered not - did not give serious thought to them; took them as matters of course, and so were not impressed by them. They remembered not the multitude of thy mercies (comp. Psalm 69:16; Isaiah 63:7; Lamentations 3:32; and infra, ver. 45). But provoked him; rather, were rebellious (see the Revised Version). At the sea, even at the Red Sea (comp. Exodus 14:11, 12).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Our fathers
אֲב֘וֹתֵ֤ינוּ (’ă·ḇō·w·ṯê·nū)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's 1: Father

in Egypt
בְמִצְרַ֨יִם ׀ (ḇə·miṣ·ra·yim)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4714: Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa

did not
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

grasp
הִשְׂכִּ֬ילוּ (hiś·kî·lū)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 7919: To be, circumspect, intelligent

Your wonders
נִפְלְאוֹתֶ֗יךָ (nip̄·lə·’ō·w·ṯe·ḵā)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6381: To separate, distinguish, to be, great, difficult, wonderful

or remember
זָ֭כְרוּ (zā·ḵə·rū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2142: To mark, to remember, to mention, to be male

Your abundant
רֹ֣ב (rōḇ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7230: Multitude, abundance, greatness

kindness;
חֲסָדֶ֑יךָ (ḥă·sā·ḏe·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 2617: Kindness, piety, reproof, beauty

but they rebelled
וַיַּמְר֖וּ (way·yam·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 4784: To be contentious or rebellious

by
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the sea,
יָ֣ם (yām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin

[there] at the Red
סֽוּף׃ (sūp̄)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5488: A reed, the papyrus

Sea.
בְּיַם־ (bə·yam-)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin


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