Psalm 106:13-31

New King James Version

^13 (A)They soon forgot His works;
They did not wait for His counsel,
^14 (B)But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,
And tested God in the desert.
^15 (C)And He gave them their request,
But ^(D)sent leanness into their soul.

¹⁶ When ^(E)they envied Moses in the camp,
And Aaron the saint of the Lord,
^17 (F)The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan,
And covered the faction of Abiram.
^18 (G)A fire was kindled in their company;
The flame burned up the wicked.

^19 (H)They made a calf in Horeb,
And worshiped the molded image.
²⁰ Thus ^(I)they changed their glory
Into the image of an ox that eats grass.
²¹ They forgot God their Savior,
Who had done great things in Egypt,
²² Wondrous works in the land of Ham,
Awesome things by the Red Sea.
^23 (J)Therefore He said that He would destroy them,
Had not Moses His chosen one ^(K)stood before Him in the breach,
To turn away His wrath, lest He destroy them.

²⁴ Then they despised ^(L)the pleasant land;
They ^(M)did not believe His word,
^25 (N)But complained in their tents,
And did not heed the voice of the Lord.
^26 (O)Therefore He raised His hand in an oath against them,
^(P)To ^[a]overthrow them in the wilderness,
^27 (Q)To ^[b]overthrow their descendants among the ^[c]nations,
And to scatter them in the lands.

^28 (R)They joined themselves also to Baal of Peor,
And ate sacrifices ^[d]made to the dead.
²⁹ Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds,
And the plague broke out among them.
^30 (S)Then Phinehas stood up and intervened,
And the plague was stopped.
³¹ And that was accounted to him ^(T)for righteousness
To all generations forevermore.