Psalm 106:1-48
Give Thanks to the LORD, for He Is Good
1 Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is] good: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
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2 Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? [who] can shew forth all his praise?
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3 Blessed [are] they that keep judgment, [and] he that doeth righteousness at all times.
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4 Remember me, O LORD, with the favour [that thou bearest unto] thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;
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5 That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.
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6 We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
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7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked [him] at the sea, [even] at the Red sea.
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8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.
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9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
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10 And he saved them from the hand of him that hated [them], and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
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11 And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.
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12 Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.
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13 They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
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14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
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15 And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
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16 They envied Moses also in the camp, [and] Aaron the saint of the LORD.
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17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
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18 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
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19 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
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20 Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
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21 They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
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22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, [and] terrible things by the Red sea.
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23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy [them].
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24 Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
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25 But murmured in their tents, [and] hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.
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26 Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:
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27 To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
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28 They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
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29 Thus they provoked [him] to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
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30 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and [so] the plague was stayed.
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31 And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.
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32 They angered [him] also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:
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33 Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
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34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:
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35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
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36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
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37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
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38 And shed innocent blood, [even] the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
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39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
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40 Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
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41 And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them.
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42 Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.
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43 Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked [him] with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
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44 Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:
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45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
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46 He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.
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47 Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, [and] to triumph in thy praise.
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48 Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.
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