Psalm 106 - The Scriptures 2009

¹ Praise Yah! Oh, give thanks to יהוה, For He is good! For His loving-commitment is everlasting.

² Who does relate the mighty acts of יהוה? Or declare all His praise?

³ Blessed are those who guard right-ruling, Who do righteousness at all times!

⁴ Remember me, O יהוה, in the acceptance of Your people; Visit me with Your deliverance,

⁵ To see the good of Your chosen ones, To rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, To make my boast with Your inheritance.

⁶ We have sinned with our fathers, We have acted perversely, We have done wrong.

⁷ Our fathers in Mitsrayim did not understand Your wonders; They did not remember Your many loving-commitments, But rebelled by the sea, the Sea of Reeds.

⁸ But He saved them for His Name’s sake, To make known His might.

⁹ And He rebuked the Sea of Reeds, and it dried up; And He led them through the depths, Through a wilderness.

¹⁰ And He saved them from the hand of the hater, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹ And waters covered their adversaries; Not one of them was left.

¹² Then they believed His words; They sang His praise.

¹³ They soon forgot His works; They did not wait for His counsel,

¹⁴ But greedily lusted in the wilderness, And tried Ěl in the desert.

¹⁵ And He gave them their request, But sent leanness within their being.

¹⁶ And they were jealous of Mosheh in the camp, Of Aharon, the set-apart one of יהוה,

¹⁷ Then the earth opened up and swallowed Dathan, And covered the company of Aḇiram.

¹⁸ And a fire burned in their company; A flame consumed the wrong.

¹⁹ They made a calf in Ḥorĕḇ, And bowed down to a moulded image.

²⁰ Thus they changed My esteem Into the form of an ox that eats grass.

²¹ They forgot Ěl their Saviour, The Doer of great deeds in Mitsrayim,

²² Of wonders in the land of Ḥam, Of awesome deeds by the Sea of Reeds.

²³ Then He said that He would destroy them, Had not Mosheh His chosen one stood before Him in the breach, To turn away His wrath from destroying them.

²⁴ They then despised the pleasant land; They did not believe His word,

²⁵ And they grumbled in their tents, They did not listen to the voice of יהוה.

²⁶ So He lifted up His hand in an oath against them, To make them fall in the wilderness,

²⁷ And to make their seed fall among the nations, And to scatter them in the lands.

²⁸ And they joined themselves to Ba‛al Pe‛or, And ate slaughterings made to the dead.

²⁹ Thus they provoked Him with their deeds, And the plague broke out among them.

³⁰ Then Pineḥas stood up and intervened, And the plague was stopped.

³¹ And that was reckoned to him for righteousness To all generations forever.

³² And they provoked wrath at the waters of Meriḇah, And Mosheh suffered on account of them;

³³ Because they embittered his spirit, And he spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴ They did not destroy the peoples, As יהוה had commanded them,

³⁵ But mixed with the nations And learned their works,

³⁶ And served their idols, And they became a snare to them.

³⁷ And they slaughtered their sons And their daughters to demons,

³⁸ And they shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons and daughters, Whom they slaughtered to the idols of Kena‛an; And the land was defiled with blood.

³⁹ So they became unclean by their own works, And went whoring by their own deeds.

⁴⁰ And the wrath of יהוה burned against His people, And He loathed His own inheritance.

⁴¹ Then He gave them into the hand of the nations, And those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴² And their enemies oppressed them, And they were humbled under their hand.

⁴³ Many times He delivered them; But they rebelled in their plans, So they were brought low for their crookedness.

⁴⁴ But He would look on their distress, When He heard their cry,

⁴⁵ And remember His covenant for their sake, And relent according to the greatness of His loving-commitment.

⁴⁶ And He would let them find compassion, Before all those holding them captive.

⁴⁷ Save us, O יהוה our Elohim, And gather us from among the nations, To give thanks to Your set-apart Name, To exult in Your praise.

⁴⁸ Blessed be יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl From everlasting to everlasting! And all the people shall say, “Amĕn!” Praise Yah!