Psalms Chapter 106 Darby English Bible

Psalms 106:1

Hallelujah! Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever.

Psalms 106:2

Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah? [who] can shew forth all his praise?

Psalms 106:3

Blessed are they that keep justice, [and] he that doeth righteousness at all times.

Psalms 106:4

Remember me, O Jehovah, with [thy] favour toward thy people; visit me with thy salvation:

Psalms 106:5

That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the joy of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.

Psalms 106:6

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

Psalms 106:7

Our fathers in Egypt considered not thy wondrous works; they remembered not the multitude of thy loving-kindnesses; but they rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea.

Psalms 106:8

Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his might.

Psalms 106:9

And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; and he led them through the deeps as through a wilderness.

Psalms 106:10

And he saved them from the hand of him that hated [them], and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

Psalms 106:11

And the waters covered their oppressors: there was not one of them left.

Psalms 106:12

Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.

Psalms 106:13

They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:

Psalms 106:14

And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted ùGod in the desert.

Psalms 106:15

Then he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.

Psalms 106:16

And they envied Moses in the camp, [and] Aaron, the saint of Jehovah.

Psalms 106:17

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram;

Psalms 106:18

And fire was kindled in their company; a flame burned up the wicked.

Psalms 106:19

They made a calf in Horeb, and did homage to a molten image;

Psalms 106:20

And they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

Psalms 106:21

They forgot ùGod their Saviour, who had done great things in Egypt,

Psalms 106:22

Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.

Psalms 106:23

And he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the breach, to turn away his fury, lest he should destroy [them].

Psalms 106:24

And they despised the pleasant land; they believed not his word,

Psalms 106:25

But murmured in their tents: they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah.

Psalms 106:26

And he lifted up his hand to them, that he would make them fall in the wilderness;

Psalms 106:27

And that he would make their seed fall among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.

Psalms 106:28

And they joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead;

Psalms 106:29

And they provoked [him] to anger with their doings; and a plague broke out among them.

Psalms 106:30

Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment, and the plague was stayed;

Psalms 106:31

And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness, from generation to generation, for evermore.

Psalms 106:32

And they moved him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account;

Psalms 106:33

For they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.

Psalms 106:34

They did not destroy the peoples, as Jehovah commanded them;

Psalms 106:35

But they mingled with the nations, and learned their works;

Psalms 106:36

And they served their idols; and they were a snare unto them:

Psalms 106:37

And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,

Psalms 106:38

And shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.

Psalms 106:39

And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings.

Psalms 106:40

Then was the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance;

Psalms 106:41

And he gave them into the hand of the nations; and they that hated them ruled over them:

Psalms 106:42

And their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

Psalms 106:43

Often did he deliver them; but as for them they provoked [him] by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquity.

Psalms 106:44

But he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry;

Psalms 106:45

And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses;

Psalms 106:46

And he caused them to find compassion of all those that had carried them captives.

Psalms 106:47

Save us, Jehovah our God, and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks unto thy holy name, [and] to triumph in thy praise.

Psalms 106:48

Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, from eternity and to eternity! And let all the people say, Amen! Hallelujah!