Psalm 106 - Easy To Read Version

¹ Praise the Lord!\par Thank the Lord because he is good!\par God’s love is forever!\par

² No person can describe\par how great the Lord really is.\par No person can praise God enough.\par

³ People who obey God’s commands are happy.\par Those people do good things all the time.\par

⁴ Lord, remember me when you are kind\par to your people.\par Remember to save me, too!\par

⁵ Lord, let me share in the good things\par you do for your chosen people.\par Let me rejoice with your nation.\par Let me join with your people in praise.\par

⁶ We sinned just like our ancestors {\cf2\super [553]} sinned.\par We were wrong, we did bad things!\par

⁷ Lord, our ancestors in Egypt learned nothing\par from the miracles you did.\par There by the Red Sea,\par our ancestors turned against you.\par

⁸ But God saved our ancestors {\cf2\super [554]} \par for his own name’s sake.\par God saved them to show his great power.\par

⁹ God gave the command,\par and the Red Sea became dry.\par God led our ancestors through the deep sea,\par on land as dry as the desert.\par

¹⁰ God saved our ancestors from their enemies!\par God rescued them from their enemies.\par

¹¹ God covered their enemies with the sea.\par Not one of their enemies escaped!\par

¹² Then our ancestors {\cf2\super [555]} believed God.\par They sang praises to him.\par

¹³ But our ancestors quickly forgot about the things God did.\par They did not listen to God’s advice.\par

¹⁴ Our ancestors became hungry in the desert.\par And they tested God in the wilderness.\par

¹⁵ But God gave our ancestors the things they asked for.\par But God also gave them a terrible disease.\par

¹⁶ The people became jealous of Moses.\par They became jealous of Aaron,\par the Lord’s holy priest.\par

¹⁷ So God punished those jealous people.\par The ground opened up\par and swallowed Dathan.\par Then the ground closed up\par and covered Abiram’s group.\par

¹⁸ Then a fire burned that mob of people.\par That fire burned those wicked people.\par

¹⁹ Those people made a golden calf\par at Mount Horeb.\par They worshiped a statue!\par

²⁰ Those people traded their glorious God,\par for a statue of a grass-eating bull!\par

²¹ God saved our ancestors. {\cf2\super [556]} \par But they forgot all about him.\par They forgot about the God who did\par the miracles in Egypt.\par

²² God did amazing things in Ham’s country. {\cf2\super [557]} \par God did awesome things near the Red Sea!\par

²³ God wanted to destroy those people.\par But Moses, the man he chose,\par stopped him.\par God was very angry,\par but Moses blocked the way,\par so God did not destroy the people. {\cf2\super [558]} \par

²⁴ But then those people refused to go\par into the wonderful land of Canaan.\par They did not believe God would help them\par defeat the people living in that land.\par

²⁵ Our ancestors {\cf2\super [559]} refused to obey God!\par

²⁶ So God swore that they would die\par in the desert.\par

²⁷ God promised that he would let\par other people defeat their descendants. {\cf2\super [560]} \par God promised he would scatter our ancestors among the nations.\par

²⁸ Then at Baal Peor,\par God’s people joined in worshiping Baal.\par God’s people \{joined in the wild parties\par and\} ate sacrifices to honor dead people. {\cf2\super [561]} \par

²⁹ God became very angry at his people,\par and God made them become very sick.\par

³⁰ But Phinehas prayed {\cf2\super [562]} to God,\par and God stopped the sickness.\par

³¹ God knew Phinehas did a very good thing.\par God will remember this forever and ever.\par

³² At Meribah, the people became angry.\par And they made Moses do something bad.\par

³³ Those people made Moses very upset,\par so Moses spoke without stopping to think.\par

³⁴ The Lord told the people to destroy\par the other nations living in Canaan.\par But the people of Israel did not obey God.\par

³⁵ They mixed with the other people,\par and did what those people were doing.\par

³⁶ Those people became a trap to God’s people.\par God’s people began worshiping the gods\par those other people worshiped.\par

³⁷ God’s people even killed their own children,\par and offered the children to those devils.\par

³⁸ God’s people killed innocent people.\par They killed their own children\par and offered them to those false gods.\par

³⁹ So God’s people became dirty with the sins of those other people.\par God’s people were unfaithful to their God\par and did the things those other people did.\par

⁴⁰ God became angry at his people.\par God was fed up with them!\par

⁴¹ God gave his people to other nations.\par God let their enemies rule over them.\par

⁴² The enemies of God’s people controlled them and made life hard for them.\par

⁴³ God saved his people many times.\par But they turned against God\par and did what they wanted to do.\par God’s people did many, many bad things.\par

⁴⁴ But whenever God’s people were in trouble,\par \{they always called to God for help\}.\par And God listened to their prayers every time.\par

⁴⁵ God always remembered his Agreement {\cf2\super [563]} \par and comforted them with his great love.\par

⁴⁶ Other nations took them as prisoners.\par But God made them be kind to his people.\par

⁴⁷ The Lord our God saved us!\par God brought us back from those nations\par so we could praise his holy name,\par so we could sing praises to him.\par

⁴⁸ Bless the Lord God of Israel.\par God has always lived,\par and he will live forever.\par And all the people said,\par “Amen! {\cf2\super [564]} \par Praise the Lord!”\par