Psalms 106

1 Hallelujah! Give thanks to the Lord for his goodness, for his kindness endures forever.

Praise ye Yah, Give ye thanks to Yahweh—For he is good, For age-abiding, is his lovingkindness.

2 Who can describe his heroic deeds, or publish all his praise?

Who can relate the mighty deeds of Yahweh? can cause to be heard, all his praise?

3 Happy they who act justly, and do righteousness evermore.

How happy! They who observe justice, He that executeth righteousness at all times.

4 Remember me, Lord, as you remember your people, and visit me with your gracious help.

Remember me, O Yahweh, when thou acceptest thy people, Visit me, with thy salvation;

5 May I see the good fortune of your elect, may I share in the joy of your nation, and in the pride of your heritage.

That I may look upon the welfare of thy chosen ones, That I may rejoice in the joy of thy nation, That I may glory, with thine inheritance.

6 We, like our fathers, have sinned, we have done perversely and wickedly

We have sinned—with our fathers, We have acted perversely, we have committed lawlessness;

7 In the land of Egypt our fathers, all heedless of your wonders, and unmindful of your great kindness, at the Red Sea defied the Most High.

Our fathers, in Egypt, understood not thy wonders, They remembered not the abounding of thy lovingkindnesses, but rebelled by the sea—at the Red Sea.

8 But true to his name he saved them, in order to show his might.

Yet he saved them, for the sake of his Name, to make known his mighty power;

9 He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried; they marched through the depths as through desert,

So he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up, And he led them through deeps, as pasture-land;

10 saved from the hand of the hostile, redeemed from the hand of the foe.

And saved them from the hand of one full of hatred, And redeemed them out of the hand of the foe;

11 The waters covered their enemies: not one of them was left.

So the waters covered their adversaries, Not one from among them, was left.

12 So then they believed in his words, and began to sing his praise.

They believed therefore in his words, They sang his praise.

13 But soon they forgot his deeds: they did not wait for his counsel.

Soon forgat they his works, —They waited not for his counsel;

14 Their greed was ravenous in the desert; they put God to the test in the wilderness.

But lusted a lust in the desert, and tested GOD in the waste.

15 He gave them the thing they had asked for, but sent wasting disease among them.

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

16 The camp grew jealous of Moses and of Aaron, holy one of the Lord.

And they became jealous of Moses in the camp, —of Aaron the holy one of Yahweh;

17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered Abiram’s company.

The earth opened and engulfed Dathan, and covered up the assembly of Abiram;

18 Fire broke out on their company, flame kindled upon the wicked.

Then was kindled a fire in their assembly, —a flame, consumed the lawless ones.

19 They made a calf in Horeb, and bowed to the molten image.

They made a calf in Horeb, —and bowed down to a molten image;

20 They exchanged their glorious God for the image of ox that eats grass.

Thus changed they my glory, for the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

21 They forgot the God who had saved them by mighty deeds in Egypt

They forgat GOD their saviour, who had done great things in Egypt:

22 Wonders in the land of Ham, terrors by the Red Sea.

Wonders in the land of Ham, Terrible things by the Red Sea.

23 So he vowed, and would have destroyed them, but for Moses his elect, who stepped into the breach before him, to divert his deadly wrath.

Then would he have bidden to destroy them, —had not Moses his chosen, stood in the breach before him, To turn back his wrath from destroying.

24 They spurned the delightsome land, they refused to believe in his word.

And they refused the delightful land, They believed not his word;

25 They grumbled in their tents, would not listen to the voice of the Lord.

But murmured in their tents, —They hearkened not unto the voice of Yahweh.

26 So he swore with uplifted hand to lay them low in the wilderness;

So he lifted up his hand unto them, that he would let them fall in the desert;

27 to disperse their seed among heathen, to scatter them over the world.

And would disperse their seed among the nations, and would scatter them throughout the lands.

28 Then they joined them to Baal of Peor, and ate what was offered the dead.

Yet they let themselves be bound to Baal-peor, —and did eat sacrifices to the dead:

29 They provoked him to wrath by their deeds, and plague broke out among them.

So they provoked to anger by their doings, and a plague, made a breach among them.

30 Then Phinehas stood between, and so the plague was stayed;

Then stood up Phinehas, and interposed, and stayed was the plague:

31 and it was counted to him for righteousness unto all generations forever.

So it was counted unto him, for righteousness, To generation after generation, unto times age abiding.

32 They angered him at the waters of Meribah, through them it went ill with Moses.

And they provoked by the waters of Meribah, —And it fared ill with Moses, for their sakes;

33 They rebelled against his spirit, and he uttered speech that was rash.

For they embittered his spirit, and he spake rashly with his lips.

34 They did not destroy the nations, as the Lord had commanded them;

They destroyed not the peoples of which Yahweh had spoken to them;

35 but they mingled with the heathen, and learned to do as they did.

But had fellowship with the nations, and learned their doings;

36 Their idol gods they worshipped, and they were ensnared by them.

Yea they served their idols, and they became to them a snare:

37 They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons.

Yea they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to mischievous demons;

38 They poured out innocent blood the blood of their sons and daughters whom they offered to Canaan’s idols, and the land was polluted with blood.

And poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, And the land was polluted with blood-shed;

39 They became unclean by their works, and adulterous in their deeds.

And they became unclean by their works, and became unchaste in their doings.

40 Then the Lord’s fury was on his people, filled with horror at his inheritance.

Then was kindled the anger of Yahweh with his people, and he abhorred his own inheritance.

41 He delivered them to the heathen, to the sway of those who hated them.

So he delivered them up into the hand of the nations, And they who hated them, had dominion over them;

42 Their enemies oppressed them, and subdued them under their hand.

And their enemies oppressed them, And they were bowed down under their hand.

43 Many a time he saved them, but they rebelled at his counsel, and were brought low by their wrongdoing.

Many times, did he rescue them, —But, they, rebelled by their counsel, and sank low in their iniquity.

44 Yet he looked upon their distress, when he heard their cry.

Then looked he on the distress which befell them, —when he heard their loud cry;

45 He remembered his covenant, and, in his great kindness, relented.

Then remembered he, for them, his covenant, and was moved to pity, according to the abounding of his lovingkindnesses;

46 He caused them to be pitied by all who carried them captive.

And granted them compassion before all their captors.

47 Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us out of the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, and to make our boast of your praise.

Save us, O Yahweh our God, and gather us from among the nations, That we may give thanks unto thy holy Name, That we may triumph aloud in thy praise.

48 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. And let all the people say “Amen.” Praise the Lord.

Blessed be Yahweh, God of Israel, from one age even unto another, And all the people, shall say, Amen! Praise ye Yah!