Psalm 106    

¹Praise Yah! Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his covenant faithfulness is everlasting.
  ²Who can tell of Yahweh’s mighty deeds or fully declare all his praise?
  ³Blessed are those who maintain justice, who practice righteousness at all times.
  ⁴Remember me, O Yahweh, in your favor toward your people; visit me with your deliverance,
  ⁵that I may see the prosperity of your chosen people, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may celebrate with your inheritance.
  ⁶We have sinned, just like our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We are guilty.
  ⁷Our fathers in Egypt failed to understand your wonderful acts. They did not remember the greatness of your covenant faithfulness, but were rebellious at the sea, at the Sea of Reeds.
  ⁸Yet he delivered them for his name’s sake, so that he might make his strength known.
  ⁹And he rebuked the Sea of Reeds, and it dried up, so he led them through the deeps as through a wilderness.
  ¹⁰So he delivered them from the hand of him who hated them, yes, he redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
  ¹¹The waters covered their foes. There was not a single one left.
  ¹²Then they believed in his words. They sang his praise.
  ¹³They quickly forgot his works. They did not wait for his counsel,
  ¹⁴but gave in to an overwhelming desire in the wilderness, and tried God in the desert.
  ¹⁵So he gave them their request, but sent a consuming disease into their souls.
  ¹⁶When they became jealous of Moses in the camp, and Aaron, the holy one of Yahweh.
  ¹⁷The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and it engulfed Abiram’s group.
  ¹⁸And a fire burned their group; a flame set ablaze the wicked.
  ¹⁹They made a calf at Horeb and they bowed down to^a a cast metal image.
  ²⁰Thus they exchanged their Glory for a representation of a grass-eating ox.
  ²¹They forgot God their Savior, the one who had done great things in Egypt,
  ²²wondrous works in the land of Ham and awesome things by the Sea of Reeds.
  ²³Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the gap before him to turn away his rage from destroying the people.
  ²⁴Then they refused the pleasant land. They did not believe his word,
  ²⁵but they grumbled in their tents and did not listen to Yahweh’s voice.
  ²⁶So he lifted up his hand toward them, to bring them to ruin in the wilderness,
  ²⁷and he dispersed their seed among the nations and scattered them in the lands.
  ²⁸They even yoked themselves to Baal-peor and ate the sacrifices offered to dead gods.
  ²⁹So they made Yahweh angry by their actions. And a plague broke out among them.
  ³⁰Then Phinehas stood up and pronounced judgment, so the plague was restrained.
  ³¹And it was reckoned to him as righteousness from generation to generation, forever.
  ³²Then they moved Yahweh to wrath at the waters of Meribah, so that it went badly for Moses because of them;
  ³³because they rebelled against Moses’ spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.
  ³⁴They did not destroy the peoples as Yahweh commanded them,
  ³⁵but they intermingled with the nations and learned their works,
  ³⁶and they served their idols, which became a snare to them.
  ³⁷They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons,
  ³⁸yes, they shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. So the land was polluted with blood.
  ³⁹Thus they became unclean through their works and acted like a prostitute in their deeds.
  ⁴⁰Therefore Yahweh’s anger was kindled against his people. Yes, he abhorred his inheritance.
  ⁴¹Then he gave them into the hand of the nations. And those who hated them ruled over them.
  ⁴²Their enemies also oppressed them. They were brought into subjection under their hand.
  ⁴³Many times he delivered them, but they rebelled in their counsel, so they sank down in their iniquity.
  ⁴⁴Yet he looked down upon their distress, when he heard their cry.
  ⁴⁵Yes, he remembered his covenant for their sake, and he relented according to the greatness of his covenant faithfulness.
  ⁴⁶And he made them objects of mercy in the presence of their captors.
  ⁴⁷Save us, O Yahweh our God. Gather us from the nations, to give thanks to your holy name; to pride ourselves in your praise!
  ⁴⁸Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting! Let all the people say, “Amen.” Praise Yah!