Psalm 106:28-39

Contemporary English Version

^28 (A) Your people became followers
    of a god named Baal Peor,
and they ate sacrifices
    offered to the dead.^[a]
29 They did such terrible things
that you punished them
    with a deadly disease.
³⁰ But Phinehas^[b] helped them,
    and the sickness stopped.
³¹ Now he will always
    be highly honored.

^32 (B) At Meribah Spring^[c]
they turned against you
    and made you furious.
³³ Then Moses got into trouble
    for speaking in anger.

^34 (C) Our Lord, they disobeyed you
by refusing to destroy
    the nations.
³⁵ Instead they were friendly
with those foreigners
    and followed their customs.
³⁶ Then they fell into the trap
    of worshiping idols.
^37 (D) They sacrificed their sons
and their daughters to demons
^{38     (E)} and to the gods of Canaan.
Then they poured out the blood
of these innocent children
    and made the land filthy.
³⁹ By doing such gruesome things,
    they also became filthy.