Psalm 106:13-31
Contemporary English Version
13 But they soon forgot
what you had done
and rejected your advice.
14 (A) They became greedy for food
and tested you there
in the desert.
15 So you gave them
what they wanted,
but later you destroyed them
with a horrible disease.
16 (B) Everyone in camp was jealous
of Moses and of Aaron,
your chosen priest.
17 Dathan and Abiram rebelled,
and the earth opened up
and swallowed them.
18 Then fire broke out
and destroyed all
of their followers.
19 (C) At Horeb your people
made and worshiped the statue
20 of a bull, instead of you,
their glorious God.
21 You worked powerful miracles
to save them from Egypt,
but they forgot about you
22 and the fearsome things
you did at the Red Sea.[a]
23 You were angry and started
to destroy them,
but Moses, your chosen leader,
begged you not to do it.
24 (D) They would not trust
you, Lord,
and they did not like
the promised land.
25 They would not obey you,
and they grumbled
in their tents.
26 So you threatened them
by saying, “I'll kill you
out here in the desert!
27 (E) I'll scatter your children
everywhere in the world.”
28 (F) Your people became followers
of a god named Baal Peor,
and they ate sacrifices
offered to the dead.[b]
29 They did such terrible things
that you punished them
with a deadly disease.
30 But Phinehas[c] helped them,
and the sickness stopped.
31 Now he will always
be highly honored.
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