Psalm 106

New American Standard Bible

⁴ Remember me, O Lord, in Your ^(F)favor ^[e]toward Your people;
Visit me with Your salvation,
⁵ That I may see the ^(G)prosperity of Your chosen ones,
That I may ^(H)rejoice in the gladness of Your nation,
That I may ^(I)glory with Your ^[f]inheritance.

^6 (J)We have sinned ^[g](K)like our fathers,
We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.
⁷ Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your ^[h]wonders;
They ^(L)did not remember ^[i]Your abundant kindnesses,
But ^(M)rebelled by the sea, at the ^[j]Red Sea.
⁸ Nevertheless He saved them ^(N)for the sake of His name,
That He might ^(O)make His power known.
⁹ Thus He ^(P)rebuked the ^[k]Red Sea and it ^(Q)dried up,
And He ^(R)led them through the deeps, as through the wilderness.
¹⁰ So He ^(S)saved them from the ^[l]hand of the one who hated them,
And ^(T)redeemed them from the ^[m]hand of the enemy.
^11 (U)The waters covered their adversaries;
Not one of them was left.
¹² Then they ^(V)believed His words;
They ^(W)sang His praise.

¹³ They quickly ^(X)forgot His works;
They ^(Y)did not wait for His counsel,
¹⁴ But ^(Z)craved intensely in the wilderness,
And ^[n](AA)tempted God in the desert.
¹⁵ So He ^(AB)gave them their request,
But ^(AC)sent a ^[o]wasting disease among them.

¹⁶ When they became ^(AD)envious of Moses in the camp,
And of Aaron, the holy one of the Lord,
¹⁷ The ^(AE)earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
And engulfed the ^[p]company of Abiram.
¹⁸ And a ^(AF)fire blazed up in their ^[q]company;
The flame consumed the wicked.

¹⁹ They ^(AG)made a calf in Horeb
And worshiped a molten image.
²⁰ Thus they ^(AH)exchanged their glory
For the image of an ox that eats grass.
²¹ They ^(AI)forgot God their Savior,
Who had done ^(AJ)great things in Egypt,
^22 [r](AK)Wonders in the land of Ham
And awesome things by the ^[s]Red Sea.
²³ Therefore ^(AL)He said that He would destroy them,
Had not ^(AM)Moses His chosen one stood in the breach before Him,
To turn away His wrath from destroying them.
²⁴ Then they ^(AN)despised the ^(AO)pleasant land;
They ^(AP)did not believe in His word,
²⁵ But ^(AQ)grumbled in their tents;
They did not listen to the voice of the Lord.
²⁶ Therefore He ^[t](AR)swore to them
That He would cast them down in the wilderness,
²⁷ And that He would ^(AS)cast their seed among the nations
And ^(AT)scatter them in the lands.

²⁸ They ^(AU)joined themselves also to ^[u]Baal-peor,
And ate ^(AV)sacrifices offered to the dead.
²⁹ Thus they ^(AW)provoked Him to anger with their deeds,
And the plague broke out among them.
³⁰ Then Phinehas ^(AX)stood up and interposed,
And so the ^(AY)plague was stayed.
³¹ And it was ^(AZ)reckoned to him for righteousness,
To all generations forever.

³² They also ^(BA)provoked Him to wrath at the waters of ^[v]Meribah,
So that it ^(BB)went hard with Moses on their account;
³³ Because they ^(BC)were rebellious against ^[w]His Spirit,
He spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴ They ^(BD)did not destroy the peoples,
As ^(BE)the Lord commanded them,
³⁵ But ^(BF)they mingled with the nations
And learned their ^[x]practices,
³⁶ And ^(BG)served their idols,
^(BH)Which became a snare to them.
³⁷ They even ^(BI)sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the ^(BJ)demons,
³⁸ And shed ^(BK)innocent blood,
The blood of their ^(BL)sons and their daughters,
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
And the land was ^(BM)polluted with the blood.
³⁹ Thus they became ^(BN)unclean in their ^[y]practices,
And ^(BO)played the harlot in their deeds.

⁴⁰ Therefore the ^(BP)anger of the Lord was kindled against His people
And He ^(BQ)abhorred His ^[z](BR)inheritance.
⁴¹ Then ^(BS)He gave them into the hand of the ^[aa]nations,
And those who hated them ruled over them.
⁴² Their enemies also ^(BT)oppressed them,
And they were subdued under their ^[ab]power.
⁴³ Many times He would ^(BU)deliver them;
They, however, were rebellious in their ^(BV)counsel,
And so ^(BW)sank down in their iniquity.

⁴⁴ Nevertheless He looked upon their distress
When He ^(BX)heard their cry;
⁴⁵ And He ^(BY)remembered His covenant for their sake,
And ^[ac](BZ)relented ^(CA)according to the greatness of His lovingkindness.
⁴⁶ He also made them ^(CB)objects of compassion
In the presence of all their captors.

^47 (CC)Save us, O Lord our God,
And ^(CD)gather us from among the nations,
To give thanks to Your holy name
And ^[ad](CE)glory in Your praise.
^48 (CF)Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
From everlasting even to everlasting.
And let all the people say, “Amen.”
^[ae]Praise ^[af]the Lord!