Psalm 106:1-33

Amplified Bible

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Remember me, O Lord, when You favor Your people.
Visit me with Your salvation [when You rescue them],
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That I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones,
That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation,
That I may glory with Your inheritance.

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We have sinned like our fathers;
We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.^(B)
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Our fathers in Egypt did not understand nor appreciate Your miracles;
They did not remember the abundance of Your mercies nor imprint Your lovingkindnesses on their hearts,
But they were rebellious at the sea, at the ^[a]Red Sea.^(C)
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Nevertheless He saved them for His name’s sake,
That He might make His [supreme] power known.
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He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;
And He led them through the depths as through a pasture.^(D)
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So He saved them from the hand of the one that hated them,
And redeemed them from the hand of the [Egyptian] enemy.^(E)
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And the waters covered their adversaries;
Not one of them was left.^(F)
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Then Israel believed in [the validity of] His words;
They sang His praise.

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But they quickly forgot His works;
They did not [patiently] wait for His counsel and purpose [to be revealed regarding them],
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But lusted intensely in the wilderness
And tempted God [with their insistent desires] in the desert.^(G)
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So He gave them their request,
But sent a wasting disease among them.^(H)

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They envied Moses in the camp,
And Aaron [the high priest], the holy one of the Lord,^(I)
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Therefore the earth opened and swallowed Dathan,
And engulfed the company of Abiram.^(J)
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And a fire broke out in their company;
The flame consumed the wicked.^(K)

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They made a calf in Horeb (Sinai)
And worshiped a cast image.^(L)
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Thus they exchanged [the true God who was] their glory
For the image of an ox that eats grass.
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They forgot God their Savior,
Who had done such great things in Egypt,
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Wonders in the land of Ham,
Awesome things at the Red Sea.
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Therefore He said He would destroy them,
[And He would have done so] had not Moses, His chosen one, stepped into the gap before Him,
To turn away His wrath from destroying them.^(M)
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Then they despised the pleasant land [of Canaan];
They did not believe in His word nor rely on it,
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But they sulked and complained in their tents;
They did not listen to the voice of the Lord.
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Therefore He lifted up His hand [swearing] to them,
That He would cause them to fall in the wilderness,
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And that He would cast out their descendants among the nations
And scatter them in the lands [of the earth].

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They joined themselves also to [the idol] Baal of Peor,
And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
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Thus they provoked Him to anger with their practices,
And a plague broke out among them.
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Then Phinehas [the priest] stood up and ^[b]interceded,
And so the plague was halted.^(N)
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And that was credited to him for righteousness,
To all generations forever.

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They provoked Him to anger at the waters of ^[c]Meribah,
So that it went hard with Moses on their account;^(O)
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Because they were rebellious against His Spirit,
Moses spoke recklessly with his lips.