Chronological
Psalm 106[a]
106 Praise the Lord.
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,
and his loyal love endures.[b]
2 Who can adequately recount the Lord’s mighty acts,
or relate all his praiseworthy deeds?[c]
3 How blessed are those who promote justice,
and do what is right all the time.
4 Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people.
Pay attention to me, when you deliver,
5 so I may see the prosperity[d] of your chosen ones,
rejoice along with your nation,[e]
and boast along with the people who belong to you.[f]
6 We have sinned like[g] our ancestors;[h]
we have done wrong, we have done evil.
7 Our ancestors in Egypt failed to appreciate your miraculous deeds.
They failed to remember your many acts of loyal love,
and they rebelled at the sea, by the Red Sea.[i]
8 Yet he delivered them for the sake of his reputation,[j]
that he might reveal his power.
9 He shouted at[k] the Red Sea and it dried up;
he led them through the deep water as if it were a desert.
10 He delivered them from the power[l] of the one who hated them,
and rescued[m] them from the power[n] of the enemy.
11 The water covered their enemies;
not even one of them survived.[o]
12 They believed his promises;[p]
they sang praises to him.
13 They quickly forgot what he had done;[q]
they did not wait for his instructions.[r]
14 In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving[s] for meat;[t]
they challenged God[u] in the wastelands.
15 He granted their request,
then struck them with a disease.[v]
16 In the camp they resented[w] Moses,
and Aaron, the Lord’s holy priest.[x]
17 The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;
it engulfed[y] the group led by Abiram.[z]
18 Fire burned their group;
the flames scorched the wicked.[aa]
19 They made an image of a calf at Horeb,
and worshiped a metal idol.
20 They traded their majestic God[ab]
for the image of an ox that eats grass.
21 They rejected[ac] the God who delivered them,
the one who performed great deeds in Egypt,
22 amazing feats in the land of Ham,
mighty acts[ad] by the Red Sea.
23 He threatened[ae] to destroy them,
but[af] Moses, his chosen one, interceded with him[ag]
and turned back his destructive anger.[ah]
24 They rejected the fruitful land;[ai]
they did not believe his promise.[aj]
25 They grumbled in their tents;[ak]
they did not obey[al] the Lord.
26 So he made a solemn vow[am]
that he would make them die[an] in the wilderness,
27 make their descendants[ao] die[ap] among the nations,
and scatter them among foreign lands.[aq]
28 They worshiped[ar] Baal of Peor,
and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.[as]
29 They made the Lord angry[at] by their actions,
and a plague broke out among them.
30 Phinehas took a stand and intervened,[au]
and the plague subsided.
31 This was credited to Phinehas as a righteous act
for all generations to come.[av]
32 They made him angry by the waters of Meribah,
and Moses suffered[aw] because of them,
33 for they aroused[ax] his temper,[ay]
and he spoke rashly.[az]
34 They did not destroy the nations,[ba]
as the Lord had commanded them to do.
35 They mixed in with the nations
and learned their ways.[bb]
36 They worshiped[bc] their idols,
which became a snare to them.[bd]
37 They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.[be]
38 They shed innocent blood—
the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan.
The land was polluted by bloodshed.[bf]
39 They were defiled by their deeds,
and unfaithful in their actions.[bg]
40 So the Lord was angry with his people[bh]
and despised the people who belonged to him.[bi]
41 He handed them over to[bj] the nations,
and those who hated them ruled over them.
42 Their enemies oppressed them;
they were subject to their authority.[bk]
43 Many times he delivered[bl] them,
but they had a rebellious attitude,[bm]
and degraded themselves[bn] by their sin.
44 Yet he took notice of their distress,
when he heard their cry for help.
45 He remembered his covenant with them,
and relented[bo] because of his great loyal love.
46 He caused all their conquerors[bp]
to have pity on them.
47 Deliver us, O Lord, our God.
Gather us from among the nations.
Then we will give thanks[bq] to your holy name,
and boast about your praiseworthy deeds.[br]
48 The Lord God of Israel deserves praise,[bs]
in the future and forevermore.[bt]
Let all the people say, “We agree![bu] Praise the Lord!”[bv]
Book 5 (Psalms 107-150)
Psalm 107[bw]
107 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,
and his loyal love endures.[bx]
2 Let those delivered by the Lord speak out,[by]
those whom he delivered[bz] from the power[ca] of the enemy,
3 and gathered from foreign lands,[cb]
from east and west,
from north and south.
4 They wandered through the wilderness, in a wasteland;[cc]
they found no road to a city in which to live.
5 They were hungry and thirsty;
they fainted from exhaustion.[cd]
6 They cried out to the Lord in their distress;
he delivered them from their troubles.
7 He led them on a level road,[ce]
that they might find a city in which to live.
8 Let them give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love,
and for the amazing things he has done for people.[cf]
9 For he has satisfied those who thirst,[cg]
and those who hunger he has filled with food.[ch]
10 They sat in utter darkness,[ci]
bound in painful iron chains,[cj]
11 because they had rebelled against God’s commands,[ck]
and rejected the instructions of the Most High.[cl]
12 So he used suffering to humble them;[cm]
they stumbled and no one helped them up.
13 They cried out to the Lord in their distress;
he delivered them from their troubles.
14 He brought them out of the utter darkness,[cn]
and tore off their shackles.
15 Let them give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love,
and for the amazing things he has done for people.[co]
16 For he shattered the bronze gates,
and hacked through the iron bars.[cp]
17 They acted like fools in their rebellious ways,[cq]
and suffered because of their sins.
18 They lost their appetite for all food,[cr]
and they drew near the gates of death.
19 They cried out to the Lord in their distress;
he delivered them from their troubles.
20 He sent them an assuring word[cs] and healed them;
he rescued them from the pits where they were trapped.[ct]
21 Let them give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love,
and for the amazing things he has done for people.[cu]
22 Let them present thank offerings,
and loudly proclaim what he has done.[cv]
23 [cw] Some traveled on[cx] the sea in ships,
and carried cargo over the vast waters.[cy]
24 They witnessed the acts of the Lord,
his amazing feats on the deep water.
25 He gave the order for a windstorm,[cz]
and it stirred up the waves of the sea.[da]
26 They[db] reached up to the sky,
then dropped into the depths.
The sailors’ strength[dc] left them[dd] because the danger was so great.[de]
27 They swayed[df] and staggered like drunks,
and all their skill proved ineffective.[dg]
28 They cried out to the Lord in their distress;
he delivered them from their troubles.
29 He calmed the storm,[dh]
and the waves[di] grew silent.
30 The sailors[dj] rejoiced because the waves[dk] grew quiet,
and he led them to the harbor[dl] they desired.
31 Let them give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love,
and for the amazing things he has done for people.[dm]
32 Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people.
Let them praise him in the place where the leaders preside.[dn]
33 He turned[do] streams into a desert,
springs of water into arid land,
34 and a fruitful land into a barren place,[dp]
because of the sin of its inhabitants.
35 As for his people,[dq] he turned[dr] a desert into a pool of water,
and a dry land into springs of water.
36 He allowed the hungry to settle there,
and they established a city in which to live.
37 They cultivated[ds] fields,
and planted vineyards,
which yielded a harvest of fruit.[dt]
38 He blessed[du] them so that they became very numerous.
He would not allow their cattle to decrease in number.[dv]
39 As for their enemies,[dw] they decreased in number and were beaten down,
because of painful distress[dx] and suffering.
40 He would pour[dy] contempt upon princes,
and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road.
41 Yet he protected[dz] the needy from oppression,
and cared for his families like a flock of sheep.
42 When the godly see this, they rejoice,
and every sinner[ea] shuts his mouth.
43 Whoever is wise, let him take note of these things.
Let them consider the Lord’s acts of loyal love.
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