CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Psalm 106</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/106.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmc//psalms/106-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/psalms/">Psalm</a> > Psalm 106</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/105.htm" title="Psalm 105">◄</a> Psalm 106 <a href="../psalms/107.htm" title="Psalm 107">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/psalms/106.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/psalms/106.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/psalms/106.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/psalms/106.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/psalms/106.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/psalms/106.htm">NAS</a></div> <div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/psalms/106.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a>Give Thanks to the LORD, for He Is Good<a href="/psalms/106-1.htm">1</a>Hallelujah!<a href="#fn">a</a> Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever. <A name="3"></a><a href="/psalms/106-2.htm">2</a>Who can describe the mighty acts of the LORD or fully proclaim His praise? <A name="4"></a><a href="/psalms/106-3.htm">3</a>Blessed are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times. <A name="5"></a><a href="/psalms/106-4.htm">4</a>Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation, <A name="6"></a><a href="/psalms/106-5.htm">5</a>that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, and give glory with Your inheritance. <A name="7"></a><a href="/psalms/106-6.htm">6</a>We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly. <A name="8"></a><a href="/psalms/106-7.htm">7</a>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.<a href="#fn">b</a> <A name="9"></a><a href="/psalms/106-8.htm">8</a>Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known. <A name="10"></a><a href="/psalms/106-9.htm">9</a>He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert. <A name="11"></a><a href="/psalms/106-10.htm">10</a>He saved them from the hand that hated them; He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. <A name="12"></a><a href="/psalms/106-11.htm">11</a>The waters covered their foes; not one of them remained. <A name="13"></a><a href="/psalms/106-12.htm">12</a>Then they believed His promises and sang His praise. <A name="14"></a><a href="/psalms/106-13.htm">13</a>Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel. <A name="15"></a><a href="/psalms/106-14.htm">14</a>They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert. <A name="16"></a><a href="/psalms/106-15.htm">15</a>So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them. <A name="17"></a><a href="/psalms/106-16.htm">16</a>In the camp they envied Moses, as well as Aaron, the holy one of the LORD. <A name="18"></a><a href="/psalms/106-17.htm">17</a>The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram. <A name="19"></a><a href="/psalms/106-18.htm">18</a>Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked. <A name="20"></a><a href="/psalms/106-19.htm">19</a>At Horeb<a href="#fn">c</a> they made a calf and worshiped a molten image. <A name="21"></a><a href="/psalms/106-20.htm">20</a>They exchanged their Glory<a href="#fn">d</a> for the image of a grass-eating ox. <A name="22"></a><a href="/psalms/106-21.htm">21</a>They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt, <A name="23"></a><a href="/psalms/106-22.htm">22</a>wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea. <A name="24"></a><a href="/psalms/106-23.htm">23</a>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. <A name="25"></a><a href="/psalms/106-24.htm">24</a>They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise. <A name="26"></a><a href="/psalms/106-25.htm">25</a>They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD. <A name="27"></a><a href="/psalms/106-26.htm">26</a>So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness, <A name="28"></a><a href="/psalms/106-27.htm">27</a>to disperse<a href="#fn">e</a> their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands. <A name="29"></a><a href="/psalms/106-28.htm">28</a>They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods. <A name="30"></a><a href="/psalms/106-29.htm">29</a>So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them. <A name="31"></a><a href="/psalms/106-30.htm">30</a>But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained. <A name="32"></a><a href="/psalms/106-31.htm">31</a>It was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come. <A name="33"></a><a href="/psalms/106-32.htm">32</a>At the waters of Meribah<a href="#fn">f</a> they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them. <A name="34"></a><a href="/psalms/106-33.htm">33</a>For they rebelled against His Spirit,<a href="#fn">g</a> and Moses spoke rashly with his lips. <A name="35"></a><a href="/psalms/106-34.htm">34</a>They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them, <A name="36"></a><a href="/psalms/106-35.htm">35</a>but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs. <A name="37"></a><a href="/psalms/106-36.htm">36</a>They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them. <A name="38"></a><a href="/psalms/106-37.htm">37</a>They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons. <A name="39"></a><a href="/psalms/106-38.htm">38</a>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. <A name="40"></a><a href="/psalms/106-39.htm">39</a>They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds. <A name="41"></a><a href="/psalms/106-40.htm">40</a>So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance. <A name="42"></a><a href="/psalms/106-41.htm">41</a>He delivered them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them. <A name="43"></a><a href="/psalms/106-42.htm">42</a>Their enemies oppressed them, and subdued them under their hand. <A name="44"></a><a href="/psalms/106-43.htm">43</a>Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity. <A name="45"></a><a href="/psalms/106-44.htm">44</a>Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress. <A name="46"></a><a href="/psalms/106-45.htm">45</a>And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion. <A name="47"></a><a href="/psalms/106-46.htm">46</a>He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive. <A name="48"></a><a href="/psalms/106-47.htm">47</a>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. <A name=""></a><a href="/psalms/106-48.htm">48</a>Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Hallelujah!<A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"> Footnotes: 1 a Or Hallelu YAH , meaning Praise the LORD ; also in verse 48 7 b Or the Sea of Reeds ; also in verses 9 and 22 19 c That is, Mount Sinai, or possibly a mountain in the range containing Mount Sinai 20 d Or their glorious God  27 e Or cast down  or cause to fall  32 f Meribah  means quarreling ; see <a href="../exodus/17.htm#7">Exodus 17:7</a>. 33 g Or they provoked His Spirit  </div> </div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. Used by Permission. All rights Reserved. Free <a href=http://berean.bible/downloads.htm>downloads</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible/licensing.htm>licensing</a> available. See also the <a href=http://literalbible.com>Berean Literal Bible</a> and <a href=http://interlinearbible.com>Berean Interlinear Bible</a>. <a href=/>Bible Hub</a> </div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../psalms/105.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 105"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 105" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/107.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 107"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 107" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>