Psalm 106:13-31

Complete Jewish Bible

¹⁴ In the desert they gave way to insatiable greed;
in the wastelands they put God to the test.
¹⁵ He gave them what they wanted
but sent meagerness into their souls.

¹⁶ In the camp they were jealous of Moshe
and Aharon, Adonai’s holy one.
¹⁷ The earth opened up and swallowed Datan
and closed over Aviram’s allies.
¹⁸ A fire blazed out against that group,
the flames consumed the wicked.

¹⁹ In Horev they fashioned a calf,
they worshipped a cast metal image.
²⁰ Thus they exchanged their Glory
for the image of an ox that eats grass!
²¹ They forgot God, who had saved them,
who had done great things in Egypt,
²² wonders in the land of Ham,
fearsome deeds by the Sea of Suf.
²³ Therefore he said that he would destroy them,
[and he would have,] had not Moshe his chosen one
stood before him in the breach
to turn back his destroying fury.

²⁴ Next, they rejected the beautiful land,
they didn’t trust his promise;
²⁵ and they complained in their tents,
they didn’t obey Adonai.
²⁶ Therefore, raising his hand, he swore to them
that he would strike them down in the desert
²⁷ and strike down their descendants among the nations,
dispersing them in foreign lands.

²⁸ Now they joined themselves to Ba‘al-P‘or
and ate meat sacrificed to dead things.
²⁹ Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds,
so that a plague broke out among them.
³⁰ Then Pinchas stood up and executed judgment;
so the plague was checked.
³¹ That was credited to him as righteousness,
through all generations forever.