Psalm 106

English Standard Version

Give Thanks to the Lord, for He Is Good

106 ^(A)Praise the Lord!
^(B)Oh give thanks to the Lord, ^(C)for he is good,
    ^(D)for his steadfast love endures forever!
²Who can utter the mighty deeds of the Lord,
    or declare all his praise?
³Blessed are they who observe justice,
    who ^(E)do righteousness at all times!

⁴^(F)Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people;
    help me when you save them,^[a]
⁵that I may look upon the prosperity of your ^(G)chosen ones,
    that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation,
    that I may glory with your inheritance.

⁶^(H)Both we and ^(I)our fathers have sinned;
    we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness.
⁷Our fathers, when they were in Egypt,
    did not consider your wondrous works;
they ^(J)did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love,
    but ^(K)rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.
⁸Yet he saved them ^(L)for his name's sake,
    ^(M)that he might make known his mighty power.
⁹He ^(N)rebuked the Red Sea, and it ^(O)became dry,
    and he ^(P)led them through the deep as through a desert.
¹⁰So he ^(Q)saved them from the hand of the foe
    and ^(R)redeemed them from the power of the enemy.
¹¹And ^(S)the waters covered their adversaries;
    not one of them was left.
¹²Then ^(T)they believed his words;
    they ^(U)sang his praise.

¹³But they soon ^(V)forgot his works;
    they did not wait for ^(W)his counsel.
¹⁴But they had ^(X)a wanton craving in the wilderness,
    and ^(Y)put God to the test in the desert;
¹⁵he ^(Z)gave them what they asked,
    but sent ^(AA)a wasting disease among them.

¹⁶When men in the camp ^(AB)were jealous of Moses
    and Aaron, ^(AC)the holy one of the Lord,
¹⁷^(AD)the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
    and covered the company of Abiram.
¹⁸^(AE)Fire also broke out in their company;
    the flame burned up the wicked.

¹⁹They ^(AF)made a calf in Horeb
    and worshiped a metal image.
²⁰They ^(AG)exchanged the glory of God^[b]
    for the image of an ox that eats grass.
²¹They ^(AH)forgot God, their Savior,
    who had done great things in Egypt,
²²wondrous works in ^(AI)the land of Ham,
    and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
²³Therefore ^(AJ)he said he would destroy them—
    had not Moses, his ^(AK)chosen one,
^(AL)stood in the breach before him,
    to turn away his wrath from destroying them.

²⁴Then they ^(AM)despised ^(AN)the pleasant land,
    having ^(AO)no faith in his promise.
²⁵They ^(AP)murmured in their tents,
    and did not obey the voice of the Lord.
²⁶Therefore he ^(AQ)raised his hand and swore to them
    that he would make them fall in the wilderness,
²⁷and would make their offspring fall among the nations,
    ^(AR)scattering them among the lands.

²⁸Then they ^(AS)yoked themselves to the ^(AT)Baal of Peor,
    and ate sacrifices offered to ^(AU)the dead;
²⁹they provoked the Lord to anger with their deeds,
    and a plague broke out among them.
³⁰Then ^(AV)Phinehas stood up and intervened,
    and the plague was stayed.
³¹And that was ^(AW)counted to him as righteousness
    from generation to generation forever.

³²They ^(AX)angered him at the waters of Meribah,
and it went ill with Moses on their account,
³³for they ^(AY)made his spirit bitter,^[c]
and he ^(AZ)spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴They did not ^(BA)destroy the peoples,
    ^(BB)as the Lord commanded them,
³⁵but they ^(BC)mixed with the nations
    and learned to do as they did.
³⁶They served their idols,
    which became ^(BD)a snare to them.
³⁷They ^(BE)sacrificed their sons
    and their daughters to ^(BF)the demons;
³⁸they poured out innocent blood,
    the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
    and the land was ^(BG)polluted with blood.
³⁹Thus they ^(BH)became unclean by their acts,
    and ^(BI)played the whore in their deeds.

⁴⁰Then ^(BJ)the anger of the Lord was kindled against ^(BK)his people,
    and he abhorred his ^(BL)heritage;
⁴¹he ^(BM)gave them into the hand of the nations,
    so that those who hated them ruled over them.
⁴²Their enemies ^(BN)oppressed them,
    and they were brought into subjection under their power.
⁴³^(BO)Many times he delivered them,
    but they were rebellious in their ^(BP)purposes
    and were ^(BQ)brought low through their iniquity.

⁴⁴Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress,
    when he ^(BR)heard their cry.
⁴⁵For their sake he ^(BS)remembered his covenant,
    and ^(BT)relented according to ^(BU)the abundance of his steadfast love.
⁴⁶He caused them to be ^(BV)pitied
    by all those who held them captive.

⁴⁷^(BW)Save us, O Lord our God,
and ^(BX)gather us from among the nations,
that we may give thanks to your holy name
and glory in your praise.

⁴⁸^(BY)Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting!
^(BZ)And let all the people say, “Amen!”
^(CA)Praise the Lord!

Footnotes

Psalm 106:4 Or Remember me, O Lord, with the favor you show to your people; help me with your salvation
Psalm 106:20 Hebrew exchanged their glory
Psalm 106:33 Or they rebelled against God's Spirit

Leviticus 20

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Punishment for Child Sacrifice

20 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Say to the people of Israel, ^(A)Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones. ³^(B)I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make my sanctuary ^(C)unclean and ^(D)to profane my holy name. ⁴And if the people of the land do at all close their eyes to that man when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not ^(E)put him to death, ⁵then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in ^(F)whoring after Molech.

⁶“If ^(G)a person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, ^(H)I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people. ⁷^(I)Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God. ⁸^(J)Keep my statutes and do them; ^(K)I am the Lord who sanctifies you. ⁹For ^(L)anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; ^(M)his blood is upon him.

Punishments for Sexual Immorality

¹⁰“If a ^(N)man commits adultery with the wife of^[a] his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. ¹¹^(O)If a man lies with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. ¹²^(P)If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have committed ^(Q)perversion; their blood is upon them. ¹³^(R)If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. ¹⁴^(S)If a man takes a woman and her mother also, it is depravity; he and they shall be burned with fire, that there may be no depravity among you. ¹⁵^(T)If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal. ¹⁶^(U)If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

¹⁷^(V)“If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister's nakedness, and he shall bear his iniquity. ¹⁸^(W)If a man lies with a woman during her menstrual period and uncovers her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people. ¹⁹^(X)You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister or of your father's sister, for that is to make naked ^(Y)one's relative; they shall bear their iniquity. ²⁰^(Z)If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness; they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless. ²¹^(AA)If a man takes his brother's wife, it is impurity.^[b] He has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

You Shall Be Holy

²²^(AB)“You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not ^(AC)vomit you out. ²³^(AD)And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them. ²⁴But ^(AE)I have said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land ^(AF)flowing with milk and honey.’ I am the Lord your God, ^(AG)who has separated you from the peoples. ²⁵^(AH)You shall therefore separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the unclean bird from the clean. You shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground crawls, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean. ²⁶^(AI)You shall be holy to me, ^(AJ)for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.

²⁷^(AK)“A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be ^(AL)stoned with stones; ^(AM)their blood shall be upon them.”

Footnotes

Leviticus 20:10 Hebrew repeats if a man commits adultery with the wife of
Leviticus 20:21 Literally menstrual impurity

James 4

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Warning Against Worldliness

4 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions^[a] are ^(A)at war within you?^[b] ²You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. ³You ask and do not receive, because you ask ^(B)wrongly, to spend it on your passions. ⁴^(C)You adulterous people!^[c] Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? ^(D)Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. ⁵Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit ^(E)that he has made to dwell in us”? ⁶But ^(F)he gives more grace. Therefore it says, ^(G)“God opposes the proud but ^(H)gives grace to the humble.” ⁷Submit yourselves therefore to God. ^(I)Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸^(J)Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. ^(K)Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and ^(L)purify your hearts, ^(M)you double-minded. ⁹^(N)Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. ¹⁰^(O)Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

¹¹^(P)Do not speak evil against one another, brothers.^[d] The one who speaks against a brother or ^(Q)judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. ¹²There is only ^(R)one lawgiver and ^(S)judge, he who is able to save and ^(T)to destroy. But ^(U)who are you to judge your neighbor?

Boasting About Tomorrow

¹³Come now, you who say, ^(V)“Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— ¹⁴yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For ^(W)you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. ¹⁵Instead you ought to say, ^(X)“If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” ¹⁶As it is, you boast in your arrogance. ^(Y)All such boasting is evil. ¹⁷^(Z)So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.