Psalm 106 (ARST)

1Praise Yahweh! Praise Yahweh because everything he does is good; he faithfully loves us forever as he promised us!Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.

2Because Yahweh has done many great things, no one can tell all the great things that Yahweh has done, and no one can praise him enough.Who can describe the mighty acts of the LORD or fully proclaim His praise?

3How fortunate are those who act fairly, those who always do what is right.Blessed are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times.

4Yahweh, be kind to me when you help your people; help me when you rescue them.Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,

5Allow me to see your people become prosperous again and to see all the people of your nation, Israel, become happy again; allow me to be happy with them! I want to praise you along with all those others who belong to you.that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, and give glory with Your inheritance.

6We and our ancestors have sinned; we have done what is wicked and evil.We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.

7When our ancestors were in Egypt, they did not pay attention to the wonderful things that Yahweh did; they forgot about the many times that he showed that he faithfully loved them. Instead, when they were at the Sea of Reeds, they rebelled against God, who is greater than any other god.Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.

8But he rescued them for the sake of his own reputation so that he could show that he is very powerful.Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.

9He rebuked the Sea of Reeds and it became dry, and then while he led our ancestors, they walked through it as though it were as dry as a desert.He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.

10In that way he rescued them from the power of their enemies.He saved them from the hand that hated them; He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

11Then their enemies were drowned in the water of the Sea of Reeds; not one of them was left.The waters covered their foes; not one of them remained.

12When that happened, our ancestors believed that Yahweh had truly done for them what he had promised to do, and they sang to praise him.Then they believed His promises and sang His praise.

13But they soon forgot what he had done for them; they did things without waiting to find out what Yahweh wanted them to do.Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.

14They intensely wanted food like they formerly ate in Egypt. They did evil things to find out whether God would punish them or not.They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.

15So he gave them what they requested, but he sent a horrible disease upon them.So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them.

16Later when some of the men became jealous of Moses and his older brother Aaron, who was dedicated to serve Yahweh by being a priest,In the camp they envied Moses, as well as Aaron, the holy one of the LORD.

17the ground opened up and swallowed Dathan and also buried Abiram and his family.The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.

18God sent down from heaven a fire which burned up all the wicked people who supported them.Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked.

19Then the Israelite leaders made a gold statue of a calf at Mount Sinai and worshiped it.At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.

20Instead of worshiping our glorious God, they started to worship a statue of an ox that eats grass!They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.

21They forgot about God, who had rescued them by the great miracles that he performed in Egypt.They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,

22They forgot about the wonderful things that he did for them in Egypt and the amazing things that he did for them at the Sea of Reeds.wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.

23Because of that, God said that he would get rid of the Israelites; but Moses, whom God had chosen to serve him, stood up to persuade God not to do that. As a result, God did not destroy them.So He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.

24Later, our ancestors refused to enter the beautiful land of Canaan because they did not believe that God would do as he promised and would enable them to take the land from the people who were living there.They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.

25They stayed in their tents and grumbled and would not pay attention to what Yahweh said that they should do.They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

26So he solemnly told them that he would cause them to die there in the wilderness,So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,

27that he would scatter their descendants among the people of other nations and groups who did not believe in him, and that he would allow them to die in those lands.to disperse their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

28Later the Israelite people started to worship the idol of Baal at Mount Peor, and they ate meat that had been sacrificed to Baal and those other lifeless gods.They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.

29Yahweh became very angry because of what they had done, so again he sent a terrible disease to attack them.So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

30But Phinehas stood up and punished the ones who had sinned greatly, and as a result the plague ended.But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.

31People have remembered that righteous deed that Phinehas did, and in future years people will remember it.It was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.

32Then at the springs of Meribah our ancestors caused Yahweh to become angry again, and as a result Moses had trouble.At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them.

33They caused Moses to become very angry, and he said things that were foolish.For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.

34Our ancestors did not destroy the other people groups as he told them to do.They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,

35Instead, the men took women from those people groups, and they started to do the evil things that those people did.but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.

36Our ancestors worshiped the idols of those people, which resulted in their being destroyed.They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.

37Some of the Israelites sacrificed their sons and daughters to the demons that those idols represented.They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

38They killed children who had done nothing wrong, and offered them as sacrifices to the idols in Canaan. As a result, the land of Canaan was polluted by those murders.They shed innocent blood—the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.

39So by their deeds they made it impossible for God to accept them; because they did not faithfully worship only God, they became like women who sleep with other men instead of sleeping only with their husbands.They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

40So Yahweh became very angry with his people; he was completely disgusted with them.So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.

41As a result, he allowed people groups who did not believe in him to conquer them, so those who hated our ancestors started to rule over them.He delivered them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.

42Their enemies oppressed them and completely controlled them.Their enemies oppressed them and subdued them under their hand.

43Many times Yahweh rescued his people, but they continued to rebel against him, and they were finally destroyed because of the sins that they committed.Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.

44However, Yahweh always heard them when they cried out to him, and he listened to them when they were distressed.Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.

45For their sake, he thought about the covenant that he had made to bless them; because he never stopped loving them very much, he changed his mind about punishing them more.And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

46He caused all those who had taken the Israelites to Babylonia to feel sorry for them.He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.

47Yahweh our God, rescue us and bring us back to Israel from among those people groups so that we may thank you and joyfully praise you.Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.

48Praise Yahweh, the God whom we Israelites worship, praise him now and forever! All the people should agree! Praise Yahweh!Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Hallelujah!

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