Through My Bible Yr 02 – August 15

Through My Bible – August 15

Psalm 106:1-33 (EHV)

See series: Through My Bible

¹ Praise the Lord. ^[1]

Give thanks to the Lord,
for he is good,
for his mercy endures forever.

² Who can tell about the mighty deeds of the Lord?
Who can cause all his praise to be heard?
³ Blessed are those who defend justice,
who do what is right all the time.
⁴ Remember me, O Lord,
when you show favor to your people.
Visit me with your salvation,
⁵ so that I may experience the good that belongs to your chosen ones,
so that I may rejoice in the joy of your nation,
so that I may join in praise with the people that belongs to you.

⁶ We have sinned along with our fathers.
We have become guilty. We have acted wickedly.
⁷ Our fathers in Egypt did not reflect on your wonders.
They did not remember your abundant mercies,
so they rebelled beside the sea, by the Red Sea.

⁸ Nevertheless, he saved them for his name’s sake,
    to make his might known.
⁹ Then he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up.
He caused them to go through the deep sea as if it were a desert.
¹⁰ He saved them from the hand of the one who hated them.
He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
¹¹ Then the waters covered their foes.
Not one of them remained.
¹² Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.

¹³ They quickly forgot his deeds.
They did not wait for his plan.
¹⁴ Because they were filled with craving in the wilderness,
they challenged God in the wasteland.
¹⁵ So he gave them what they asked for,
but he made them sick so they wasted away.

¹⁶ Then they grew jealous of Moses in the camp
and of Aaron, who was holy to the Lord.
¹⁷ The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan,
and it closed over the followers of Abiram.
¹⁸ Then fire burned up their followers.
Flames consumed the wicked.

¹⁹ They made a calf at Horeb,
and they bowed down to a thing cast from metal.
²⁰ So they exchanged their Glory for a model of an ox that eats grass.
²¹ They forgot the God who saved them
    by doing great things in Egypt,
²²     wonders in the land of Ham,
    awesome deeds beside the Red Sea.

²³ So he said he would destroy them.
But Moses, his chosen one, stood between God and the people
    to turn aside his wrath, so it did not destroy them.

²⁴ Then they refused the pleasant land.
They did not believe his word.
²⁵ They grumbled in their tents.
They did not listen to the voice of the Lord.
²⁶ So he lifted up his hand and swore to them
    that he would make them fall in the wilderness,
²⁷     and make their descendants fall among the nations,
    and he would scatter them throughout the lands.
²⁸ Then they yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor,
and they ate sacrifices offered to dead gods.
²⁹ They provoked the Lord by their actions,
and a plague broke out among them.
³⁰ But Phinehas stood up and interceded for them,
and the plague was restrained.
³¹ So this was credited to him as righteousness
for generation after generation, to eternity.

³² Again by the waters of Meribah they provoked the Lord,
and trouble came on Moses because of them.
³³ Because they rebelled against his Spirit, ^[2]
Moses spoke recklessly with his lips.

Footnotes

1. Psalm 106:1 Hebrew hallelu Yah
2. Psalm 106:33 Or made his spirit bitter