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Psalm 105-106
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Psalm 105[a]

105 Give thanks to the Lord.
Call on his name.
Make known his accomplishments among the nations.
2 Sing to him.
Make music to him.
Tell about all his miraculous deeds.
3 Boast about his holy name.
Let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.
4 Seek the Lord and the strength he gives.
Seek his presence continually.
5 Recall the miraculous deeds he performed,
his mighty acts and the judgments he decreed,[b]
6 O children[c] of Abraham,[d] God’s[e] servant,
you descendants[f] of Jacob, God’s[g] chosen ones.
7 He is the Lord our God;
he carries out judgment throughout the earth.[h]
8 He always remembers his covenantal decree,
the promise he made[i] to a thousand generations—
9 the promise[j] he made to Abraham,
the promise he made by oath to Isaac.
10 He gave it to Jacob as a decree,
to Israel as a lasting promise,[k]
11 saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
as the portion of your inheritance.”
12 When they were few in number,
just a very few, and resident foreigners within it,
13 they wandered from nation to nation,
and from one kingdom to another.[l]
14 He let no one oppress them;
he disciplined kings for their sake,
15 saying,[m] “Don’t touch my chosen ones.[n]
Don’t harm my prophets.”
16 He called down a famine upon the earth;
he cut off all the food supply.[o]
17 He sent a man ahead of them[p]—
Joseph was sold as a servant.
18 The shackles hurt his feet;[q]
his neck was placed in an iron collar,[r]
19 until the time when his prediction[s] came true.
The Lord’s word[t] proved him right.[u]
20 The king authorized his release;[v]
the ruler of nations set him free.
21 He put him in charge of his palace,[w]
and made him manager of all his property,
22 giving him authority to imprison his officials[x]
and to teach his advisers.[y]
23 Israel moved to[z] Egypt;
Jacob lived for a time[aa] in the land of Ham.
24 The Lord[ab] made his people very fruitful,
and made them[ac] more numerous than their[ad] enemies.
25 He caused the Egyptians[ae] to hate his people,
and to mistreat[af] his servants.
26 He sent his servant Moses,
and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
27 They executed his miraculous signs among them,[ag]
and his amazing deeds in the land of Ham.
28 He made it dark;[ah]
Moses and Aaron did not disobey his orders.[ai]
29 He turned the Egyptians’ water into blood,
and killed their fish.
30 Their land was overrun by frogs,
which even got into the rooms of their kings.
31 He ordered flies to come;[aj]
gnats invaded their whole territory.
32 He sent hail along with the rain;[ak]
there was lightning in their land.[al]
33 He destroyed their vines and fig trees,
and broke the trees throughout their territory.
34 He ordered locusts to come,[am]
innumerable grasshoppers.
35 They ate all the vegetation in their land,
and devoured the crops of their fields.[an]
36 He struck down all the firstborn in their land,
the firstfruits of their reproductive power.[ao]
37 He brought his people[ap] out enriched[aq] with silver and gold;
none of his tribes stumbled.
38 Egypt was happy when they left,
for they were afraid of them.[ar]
39 He spread out a cloud for a cover,[as]
and provided a fire to light up the night.
40 They asked for food,[at] and he sent quail;
he satisfied them with food from the sky.[au]
41 He opened up a rock and water flowed out;
a river ran through dry regions.
42 Yes,[av] he remembered the sacred promise[aw]
he made to Abraham his servant.
43 When he led his people out, they rejoiced;
his chosen ones shouted with joy.[ax]
44 He handed the territory of nations over to them,
and they took possession of what other peoples had produced,[ay]
45 so that they might keep his commands
and obey[az] his laws.
Praise the Lord.

Psalm 106[ba]

106 Praise the Lord.
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,
and his loyal love endures.[bb]
2 Who can adequately recount the Lord’s mighty acts,
or relate all his praiseworthy deeds?[bc]
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[bd] of your chosen ones,
rejoice along with your nation,[be]
and boast along with the people who belong to you.[bf]
6 We have sinned like[bg] our ancestors;[bh]
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.[bi]
8 Yet he delivered them for the sake of his reputation,[bj]
that he might reveal his power.
9 He shouted at[bk] 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[bl] of the one who hated them,
and rescued[bm] them from the power[bn] of the enemy.
11 The water covered their enemies;
not even one of them survived.[bo]
12 They believed his promises;[bp]
they sang praises to him.
13 They quickly forgot what he had done;[bq]
they did not wait for his instructions.[br]
14 In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving[bs] for meat;[bt]
they challenged God[bu] in the wastelands.
15 He granted their request,
then struck them with a disease.[bv]
16 In the camp they resented[bw] Moses,
and Aaron, the Lord’s holy priest.[bx]
17 The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;
it engulfed[by] the group led by Abiram.[bz]
18 Fire burned their group;
the flames scorched the wicked.[ca]
19 They made an image of a calf at Horeb,
and worshiped a metal idol.
20 They traded their majestic God[cb]
for the image of an ox that eats grass.
21 They rejected[cc] the God who delivered them,
the one who performed great deeds in Egypt,
22 amazing feats in the land of Ham,
mighty acts[cd] by the Red Sea.
23 He threatened[ce] to destroy them,
but[cf] Moses, his chosen one, interceded with him[cg]
and turned back his destructive anger.[ch]
24 They rejected the fruitful land;[ci]
they did not believe his promise.[cj]
25 They grumbled in their tents;[ck]
they did not obey[cl] the Lord.
26 So he made a solemn vow[cm]
that he would make them die[cn] in the wilderness,
27 make their descendants[co] die[cp] among the nations,
and scatter them among foreign lands.[cq]
28 They worshiped[cr] Baal of Peor,
and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.[cs]
29 They made the Lord angry[ct] by their actions,
and a plague broke out among them.
30 Phinehas took a stand and intervened,[cu]
and the plague subsided.
31 This was credited to Phinehas as a righteous act
for all generations to come.[cv]
32 They made him angry by the waters of Meribah,
and Moses suffered[cw] because of them,
33 for they aroused[cx] his temper,[cy]
and he spoke rashly.[cz]
34 They did not destroy the nations,[da]
as the Lord had commanded them to do.
35 They mixed in with the nations
and learned their ways.[db]
36 They worshiped[dc] their idols,
which became a snare to them.[dd]
37 They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.[de]
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.[df]
39 They were defiled by their deeds,
and unfaithful in their actions.[dg]
40 So the Lord was angry with his people[dh]
and despised the people who belonged to him.[di]
41 He handed them over to[dj] the nations,
and those who hated them ruled over them.
42 Their enemies oppressed them;
they were subject to their authority.[dk]
43 Many times he delivered[dl] them,
but they had a rebellious attitude,[dm]
and degraded themselves[dn] 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[do] because of his great loyal love.
46 He caused all their conquerors[dp]
to have pity on them.
47 Deliver us, O Lord, our God.
Gather us from among the nations.
Then we will give thanks[dq] to your holy name,
and boast about your praiseworthy deeds.[dr]
48 The Lord God of Israel deserves praise,[ds]
in the future and forevermore.[dt]
Let all the people say, “We agree![du] Praise the Lord!”[dv]

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 105:1 sn Psalm 105. The psalmist summons Israel to praise God because he delivered his people from Egypt in fulfillment of his covenantal promises to Abraham. A parallel version of vv. 1-15 appears in 1 Chr 16:8-22.
  2. Psalm 105:5 tn Heb “and the judgments of his mouth.”
  3. Psalm 105:6 tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”
  4. Psalm 105:6 tc Some mss have “Israel,” which appears in the parallel version of this psalm in 1 Chr 16:13.
  5. Psalm 105:6 tn Heb “his”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  6. Psalm 105:6 tn Heb “sons.”
  7. Psalm 105:6 tn Heb “his”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  8. Psalm 105:7 tn Heb “in all the earth [are] his judgments.”
  9. Psalm 105:8 tn Heb “[the] word he commanded.” The text refers here to God’s unconditional covenantal promise to Abraham and the patriarchs, as vv. 10-12 make clear.
  10. Psalm 105:9 tn Heb “which.”
  11. Psalm 105:10 tn Or “eternal covenant.”
  12. Psalm 105:13 tn Heb “and from a kingdom to another nation.”
  13. Psalm 105:15 tn The word “saying” is supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.
  14. Psalm 105:15 tn Heb “anointed.”
  15. Psalm 105:16 tn Heb “and every staff of food he broke.” The psalmist refers to the famine that occurred in Joseph’s time (see v. 17 and Gen 41:53-57).
  16. Psalm 105:17 tn After the reference to the famine in v. 16, v. 17 flashes back to events that preceded the famine (see Gen 37).
  17. Psalm 105:18 tn Heb “they afflicted his feet with shackles.”
  18. Psalm 105:18 tn Heb “his neck came [into] iron.” The Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) with the suffix could mean simply “he” or “his life.” But the nuance “neck” makes good sense here (note the reference to his “feet” in the preceding line). See L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 38.
  19. Psalm 105:19 tn Heb “word,” probably referring to Joseph’s prediction about the fate of Pharaoh’s cupbearer and baker (see Gen 41:9-14).
  20. Psalm 105:19 tn This line may refer to Joseph’s prediction of the famine in response to Pharaoh’s dream. Joseph emphasized to Pharaoh that the interpretation of the dream came from God (see Gen 41:16, 25, 28, 32, 39).
  21. Psalm 105:19 tn Heb “refined him.”
  22. Psalm 105:20 tn Heb “[the] king sent and set him free.”
  23. Psalm 105:21 tn Heb “he made him master of his house.”
  24. Psalm 105:22 tn Heb “to bind his officials by his will.”
  25. Psalm 105:22 tn Heb “and his elders he taught wisdom.”
  26. Psalm 105:23 tn Heb “entered.”
  27. Psalm 105:23 tn Heb “lived as a resident foreigner.”
  28. Psalm 105:24 tn Heb “and he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  29. Psalm 105:24 tn Heb “him,” referring to “his people.”
  30. Psalm 105:24 tn Heb “his,” referring to “his people.”
  31. Psalm 105:25 tn Heb “their heart.”
  32. Psalm 105:25 tn Or “to deal deceptively.” The Hitpael of נָכַל (nakhal) occurs only here and in Gen 37:18, where it is used of Joseph’s brothers “plotting” to kill him.
  33. Psalm 105:27 tn Apparently the pronoun refers to “his servants” (i.e., the Israelites, see v. 25).
  34. Psalm 105:28 tn Heb “he sent darkness and made it dark.”sn He made it dark. The psalmist begins with the ninth plague (see Exod 10:21-29).
  35. Psalm 105:28 tn Heb “they did not rebel against his words.” Apparently this refers to Moses and Aaron, who obediently carried out God’s orders.
  36. Psalm 105:31 tn Heb “he spoke and flies came.”
  37. Psalm 105:32 tn Heb “he gave their rains hail.”
  38. Psalm 105:32 tn Heb “fire of flames [was] in their land.”
  39. Psalm 105:34 tn Heb “he spoke and locusts came.”
  40. Psalm 105:35 tn Heb “the fruit of their ground.”
  41. Psalm 105:36 tn Heb “the beginning of all their strength,” that is, reproductive power (see Ps 78:51).sn Verses 28-36 recall the plagues in a different order than the one presented in Exodus: v. 28 (plague 9), v. 29 (plague 1), v. 30 (plague 2), v. 31a (plague 4), v. 31b (plague 3), vv. 32-33 (plague 7), vv. 34-35 (plague 8), v. 36 (plague 10). No reference is made in Ps 105 to plagues 5 and 6.
  42. Psalm 105:37 tn Heb “them”; the referent (the Lord’s people) has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
  43. Psalm 105:37 tn The word “enriched” is supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.
  44. Psalm 105:38 tn Heb “for fear of them had fallen upon them.”
  45. Psalm 105:39 tn Or “curtain.”
  46. Psalm 105:40 tn Heb “he [i.e., his people] asked.” The singular form should probably be emended to a plural שָׁאֲלוּ (shaʾalu, “they asked”), the ו (vav) having fallen off by haplography (note the vav at the beginning of the following form).
  47. Psalm 105:40 tn Or “bread of heaven.” The reference is to manna (see Exod 16:4, 13-15).
  48. Psalm 105:42 tn Or “for.”
  49. Psalm 105:42 tn Heb “his holy word.”
  50. Psalm 105:43 tn Heb “and he led his people out with joy, with a ringing cry, his chosen ones.”
  51. Psalm 105:44 tn Heb “and the [product of the] work of peoples they possessed.”
  52. Psalm 105:45 tn Heb “guard.”
  53. Psalm 106:1 sn Psalm 106. The psalmist recalls Israel’s long history of rebellion against God, despite his mighty saving deeds on their behalf.
  54. Psalm 106:1 tn Heb “for forever [is] his loyal love.”
  55. Psalm 106:2 tn Heb “[or] cause to be heard all his praise.”
  56. Psalm 106:5 tn Heb “good.”
  57. Psalm 106:5 tn Heb “in order that [I may] rejoice with the rejoicing of your nation.”
  58. Psalm 106:5 tn Heb “with your inheritance.”
  59. Psalm 106:6 tn Heb “with.”
  60. Psalm 106:6 tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 7).
  61. Psalm 106:7 tn Heb “Reed Sea” (also in vv. 9, 22). “Reed Sea” (or “Sea of Reeds”) is a more accurate rendering of the Hebrew expression יָם סוּף (yam suf), traditionally translated “Red Sea.” See the note on the term “Red Sea” in Exod 13:18.sn They rebelled. The psalmist recalls the people’s complaint recorded in Exod 14:12.
  62. Psalm 106:8 tn Heb “his name,” which here stands metonymically for God’s reputation.
  63. Psalm 106:9 tn Or “rebuked.”
  64. Psalm 106:10 tn Heb “hand.”
  65. Psalm 106:10 tn Or “redeemed.”
  66. Psalm 106:10 tn Heb “hand.”
  67. Psalm 106:11 tn Heb “remained.”
  68. Psalm 106:12 tn Heb “his words.”
  69. Psalm 106:13 tn Heb “his works.”
  70. Psalm 106:13 tn Heb “his counsel.”
  71. Psalm 106:14 sn They had an insatiable craving. This is described in Num 11:4-35.
  72. Psalm 106:14 tn Heb “they craved [with] a craving.”
  73. Psalm 106:14 tn Heb “they tested God.”
  74. Psalm 106:15 tn Heb “and he sent leanness into their being.”sn Disease. See Num 11:33-34, where this plague is described.
  75. Psalm 106:16 tn Or “envied.”
  76. Psalm 106:16 tn Heb “the holy one of the Lord.”
  77. Psalm 106:17 tn Or “covered.”
  78. Psalm 106:17 tn Or “the assembly of Abiram.”
  79. Psalm 106:18 sn Verses 16-18 describe the events of Num 16:1-40.
  80. Psalm 106:20 tn Heb “their glory.” According to an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition, the text originally read “his glory” or “my glory.” In Jer 2:11 the Lord states that his people (Israel) exchanged “their glory” (a reference to the Lord) for worthless idols.
  81. Psalm 106:21 tn Heb “forgot.”
  82. Psalm 106:22 tn Or “awe-inspiring acts.”
  83. Psalm 106:23 tn Heb “and he said.”
  84. Psalm 106:23 tn Heb “if not,” that is, “[and would have] if [Moses] had not.”
  85. Psalm 106:23 tn Heb “stood in the gap before him.”
  86. Psalm 106:23 tn Heb “to turn back his anger from destroying.”sn Verses 19-23 describe the events of Exod 32:1-35.
  87. Psalm 106:24 tn Heb “a land of delight” (see also Jer 3:19; Zech 7:14).
  88. Psalm 106:24 tn Heb “his word.”
  89. Psalm 106:25 sn They grumbled in their tents. See Deut 1:27.
  90. Psalm 106:25 tn Heb “did not listen to the voice of.”
  91. Psalm 106:26 tn Heb “and he lifted his hand to [or “concerning”] them.” The idiom “to lift a hand” here refers to swearing an oath. One would sometimes solemnly lift one’s hand when making such a vow (see Ezek 20:5-6, 15).
  92. Psalm 106:26 tn Heb “to cause them to fall.”
  93. Psalm 106:27 tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”
  94. Psalm 106:27 tn Heb “and to cause their offspring to fall.” Some emend the verb to “scatter” to form tighter parallelism with the following line (cf. NRSV “disperse”).
  95. Psalm 106:27 tn Heb “among the lands.” The word “foreign” is supplied in the translation for clarification.
  96. Psalm 106:28 tn Heb “joined themselves to.”sn They worshiped Baal of Peor. See Num 25:3, 5. Baal of Peor was a local manifestation of the Canaanite deity Baal located at Peor.
  97. Psalm 106:28 tn Here “the dead” may refer to deceased ancestors (see Deut 26:14). Another option is to understand the term as a derogatory reference to the various deities which the Israelites worshiped at Peor along with Baal (see Num 25:2 and L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 [WBC], 49).
  98. Psalm 106:29 tn Heb “They made angry [him].” The pronominal suffix is omitted here, but does appear in a few medieval Hebrew mss. Perhaps it was accidentally left off, an original וַיַּכְעִיסוּהוּ (vayyakhʿisuhu) being misread as וַיַּכְעִיסוּ (vayyakhʿisu). In the translation the referent of the pronominal suffix (the Lord) has been specified for clarity to avoid confusion with Baal of Peor (mentioned in the previous verse).
  99. Psalm 106:30 sn The intervention of Phinehas is recounted in Num 25:7-8.
  100. Psalm 106:31 tn Heb “and it was reckoned to him for righteousness, to a generation and a generation forever.” The verb חָשַׁב (khashav, “to reckon”) is collocated with צְדָקָה (tsedaqah, “righteousness”) only in Ps 106:31 and Gen 15:6, where God credits Abram’s faith as righteousness.
  101. Psalm 106:32 tn Heb “there was harm to Moses.”
  102. Psalm 106:33 tn The Hebrew text vocalizes the form as הִמְרוּ (himru), a Hiphil from מָרָה (marah, “to behave rebelliously”), but the verb fits better with the object (“his spirit”) if it is revocalized as הֵמֵרוּ (hemeru), a Hiphil from מָרַר (marar, “to be bitter”). The Israelites “embittered” Moses’ “spirit” in the sense that they aroused his temper with their complaints.
  103. Psalm 106:33 tn Heb “his spirit.”
  104. Psalm 106:33 tn The Hebrew text adds “with his lips,” but this has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.sn Verses 32-33 allude to the events of Num 20:1-13.
  105. Psalm 106:34 tn That is, the nations of Canaan.
  106. Psalm 106:35 tn Heb “their deeds.”
  107. Psalm 106:36 tn Or “served.”
  108. Psalm 106:36 sn Became a snare. See Exod 23:33; Judg 2:3.
  109. Psalm 106:37 tn The Hebrew term שֵׁדִים (shedim, “demons”) occurs only here and in Deut 32:17. Some type of lesser deity is probably in view.
  110. Psalm 106:38 sn Num 35:33-34 explains that bloodshed defiles a land.
  111. Psalm 106:39 tn Heb “and they committed adultery in their actions.” This means that they were unfaithful to the Lord (see Ps 73:27).
  112. Psalm 106:40 tn Heb “the anger of the Lord burned against his people.”
  113. Psalm 106:40 tn Heb “his inheritance.”
  114. Psalm 106:41 tn Heb “gave them into the hand of.”
  115. Psalm 106:42 tn Heb “they were subdued under their hand.”
  116. Psalm 106:43 tn The prefixed verbal form is either preterite or imperfect, in which case it is customary, describing repeated action in past time (“he would deliver”).
  117. Psalm 106:43 tn Heb “but they rebelled in their counsel.” The prefixed verbal form is either preterite or imperfect, in which case it is customary, describing repeated action in past time (“they would have a rebellious attitude”).
  118. Psalm 106:43 tn Heb “they sank down.” The Hebrew verb מָכַךְ (makhakh, “to lower; to sink”) occurs only here in the Qal.
  119. Psalm 106:45 tn The Niphal of נָחַם (nakham) refers here to God relenting from a punishment already underway.
  120. Psalm 106:46 tn Or “captors.”
  121. Psalm 106:47 tn Heb “to give thanks.” The infinitive construct indicates result after the imperative.
  122. Psalm 106:47 tn Heb “to boast in your praise.”
  123. Psalm 106:48 tn Heb “[be] blessed.” See Pss 18:46; 28:6; 31:21.
  124. Psalm 106:48 tn Heb “from everlasting to everlasting.”
  125. Psalm 106:48 tn Heb “surely” (אָמֵן,ʾamen), traditionally transliterated “amen.”
  126. Psalm 106:48 sn The final verse (v. 48) is a conclusion to this fourth “book” (or major editorial division) of the Psalter. Similar statements appear at or near the end of each of the first, second and third “books” of the Psalter (see Pss 41:13; 72:18-19; 89:52, respectively).
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Psalm 105(A)

1 Give praise to the Lord,(B) proclaim his name;(C)
    make known among the nations what he has done.
2 Sing to him,(D) sing praise to him;(E)
    tell of all his wonderful acts.(F)
3 Glory in his holy name;(G)
    let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.
4 Look to the Lord and his strength;
    seek his face(H) always.

5 Remember the wonders(I) he has done,
    his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced,(J)
6 you his servants, the descendants of Abraham,(K)
    his chosen(L) ones, the children of Jacob.
7 He is the Lord our God;
    his judgments are in all the earth.

8 He remembers his covenant(M) forever,
    the promise he made, for a thousand generations,
9 the covenant he made with Abraham,(N)
    the oath he swore to Isaac.
10 He confirmed it(O) to Jacob as a decree,
    to Israel as an everlasting covenant:(P)
11 “To you I will give the land of Canaan(Q)
    as the portion you will inherit.”(R)

12 When they were but few in number,(S)
    few indeed, and strangers in it,(T)
13 they wandered from nation to nation,(U)
    from one kingdom to another.
14 He allowed no one to oppress(V) them;
    for their sake he rebuked kings:(W)
15 “Do not touch(X) my anointed ones;
    do my prophets(Y) no harm.”

16 He called down famine(Z) on the land
    and destroyed all their supplies of food;
17 and he sent a man before them—
    Joseph, sold as a slave.(AA)
18 They bruised his feet with shackles,(AB)
    his neck was put in irons,
19 till what he foretold(AC) came to pass,
    till the word(AD) of the Lord proved him true.
20 The king sent and released him,
    the ruler of peoples set him free.(AE)
21 He made him master of his household,
    ruler over all he possessed,
22 to instruct his princes(AF) as he pleased
    and teach his elders wisdom.(AG)

23 Then Israel entered Egypt;(AH)
    Jacob resided(AI) as a foreigner in the land of Ham.(AJ)
24 The Lord made his people very fruitful;
    he made them too numerous(AK) for their foes,
25 whose hearts he turned(AL) to hate his people,
    to conspire(AM) against his servants.
26 He sent Moses(AN) his servant,
    and Aaron,(AO) whom he had chosen.(AP)
27 They performed(AQ) his signs(AR) among them,
    his wonders(AS) in the land of Ham.
28 He sent darkness(AT) and made the land dark—
    for had they not rebelled against(AU) his words?
29 He turned their waters into blood,(AV)
    causing their fish to die.(AW)
30 Their land teemed with frogs,(AX)
    which went up into the bedrooms of their rulers.
31 He spoke,(AY) and there came swarms of flies,(AZ)
    and gnats(BA) throughout their country.
32 He turned their rain into hail,(BB)
    with lightning throughout their land;
33 he struck down their vines(BC) and fig trees(BD)
    and shattered the trees of their country.
34 He spoke,(BE) and the locusts came,(BF)
    grasshoppers(BG) without number;(BH)
35 they ate up every green thing in their land,
    ate up the produce of their soil.
36 Then he struck down all the firstborn(BI) in their land,
    the firstfruits of all their manhood.
37 He brought out Israel, laden with silver and gold,(BJ)
    and from among their tribes no one faltered.
38 Egypt was glad when they left,
    because dread of Israel(BK) had fallen on them.

39 He spread out a cloud(BL) as a covering,
    and a fire to give light at night.(BM)
40 They asked,(BN) and he brought them quail;(BO)
    he fed them well with the bread of heaven.(BP)
41 He opened the rock,(BQ) and water gushed out;
    it flowed like a river in the desert.

42 For he remembered his holy promise(BR)
    given to his servant Abraham.
43 He brought out his people with rejoicing,(BS)
    his chosen ones with shouts of joy;
44 he gave them the lands of the nations,(BT)
    and they fell heir to what others had toiled(BU) for—
45 that they might keep his precepts
    and observe his laws.(BV)

Praise the Lord.[a](BW)

Psalm 106(BX)

1 Praise the Lord.[b](BY)

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;(BZ)
    his love endures forever.(CA)

2 Who can proclaim the mighty acts(CB) of the Lord
    or fully declare his praise?
3 Blessed are those who act justly,(CC)
    who always do what is right.(CD)

4 Remember me,(CE) Lord, when you show favor(CF) to your people,
    come to my aid(CG) when you save them,
5 that I may enjoy the prosperity(CH) of your chosen ones,(CI)
    that I may share in the joy(CJ) of your nation
    and join your inheritance(CK) in giving praise.

6 We have sinned,(CL) even as our ancestors(CM) did;
    we have done wrong and acted wickedly.(CN)
7 When our ancestors were in Egypt,
    they gave no thought(CO) to your miracles;
they did not remember(CP) your many kindnesses,
    and they rebelled by the sea,(CQ) the Red Sea.[c]
8 Yet he saved them(CR) for his name’s sake,(CS)
    to make his mighty power(CT) known.
9 He rebuked(CU) the Red Sea, and it dried up;(CV)
    he led them through(CW) the depths as through a desert.
10 He saved them(CX) from the hand of the foe;(CY)
    from the hand of the enemy he redeemed them.(CZ)
11 The waters covered(DA) their adversaries;
    not one of them survived.
12 Then they believed his promises
    and sang his praise.(DB)

13 But they soon forgot(DC) what he had done
    and did not wait for his plan to unfold.(DD)
14 In the desert(DE) they gave in to their craving;
    in the wilderness(DF) they put God to the test.(DG)
15 So he gave them(DH) what they asked for,
    but sent a wasting disease(DI) among them.

16 In the camp they grew envious(DJ) of Moses
    and of Aaron, who was consecrated to the Lord.
17 The earth opened(DK) up and swallowed Dathan;(DL)
    it buried the company of Abiram.(DM)
18 Fire blazed(DN) among their followers;
    a flame consumed the wicked.
19 At Horeb they made a calf(DO)
    and worshiped an idol cast from metal.
20 They exchanged their glorious God(DP)
    for an image of a bull, which eats grass.
21 They forgot the God(DQ) who saved them,
    who had done great things(DR) in Egypt,
22 miracles in the land of Ham(DS)
    and awesome deeds(DT) by the Red Sea.
23 So he said he would destroy(DU) them—
    had not Moses, his chosen one,
stood in the breach(DV) before him
    to keep his wrath from destroying them.

24 Then they despised(DW) the pleasant land;(DX)
    they did not believe(DY) his promise.
25 They grumbled(DZ) in their tents
    and did not obey the Lord.
26 So he swore(EA) to them with uplifted hand
    that he would make them fall in the wilderness,(EB)
27 make their descendants fall among the nations
    and scatter(EC) them throughout the lands.

28 They yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor(ED)
    and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods;
29 they aroused the Lord’s anger(EE) by their wicked deeds,(EF)
    and a plague(EG) broke out among them.
30 But Phinehas(EH) stood up and intervened,
    and the plague was checked.(EI)
31 This was credited to him(EJ) as righteousness
    for endless generations(EK) to come.
32 By the waters of Meribah(EL) they angered the Lord,
    and trouble came to Moses because of them;
33 for they rebelled(EM) against the Spirit(EN) of God,
    and rash words came from Moses’ lips.[d](EO)

34 They did not destroy(EP) the peoples
    as the Lord had commanded(EQ) them,
35 but they mingled(ER) with the nations
    and adopted their customs.
36 They worshiped their idols,(ES)
    which became a snare(ET) to them.
37 They sacrificed their sons(EU)
    and their daughters to false gods.(EV)
38 They shed innocent blood,
    the blood of their sons(EW) and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
    and the land was desecrated by their blood.
39 They defiled themselves(EX) by what they did;
    by their deeds they prostituted(EY) themselves.

40 Therefore the Lord was angry(EZ) with his people
    and abhorred his inheritance.(FA)
41 He gave them into the hands(FB) of the nations,
    and their foes ruled over them.
42 Their enemies oppressed(FC) them
    and subjected them to their power.
43 Many times he delivered them,(FD)
    but they were bent on rebellion(FE)
    and they wasted away in their sin.
44 Yet he took note of their distress
    when he heard their cry;(FF)
45 for their sake he remembered his covenant(FG)
    and out of his great love(FH) he relented.(FI)
46 He caused all who held them captive
    to show them mercy.(FJ)

47 Save us,(FK) Lord our God,
    and gather us(FL) from the nations,
that we may give thanks(FM) to your holy name(FN)
    and glory in your praise.

48 Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel,
    from everlasting to everlasting.

Let all the people say, “Amen!”(FO)

Praise the Lord.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 105:45 Hebrew Hallelu Yah
  2. Psalm 106:1 Hebrew Hallelu Yah; also in verse 48
  3. Psalm 106:7 Or the Sea of Reeds; also in verses 9 and 22
  4. Psalm 106:33 Or against his spirit, / and rash words came from his lips
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