Psalm 106:6-48 - Heartlight

⁶We have sinned like our fathers;

we have done wrong and acted wickedly.

⁷Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders

or remember Your abundant kindness;

but they rebelled by the sea,

there at the Red Sea.

⁸Yet He saved them for the sake of His name,

to make His power known.

⁹He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;

He led them through the depths as through a desert.

¹⁰He saved them from the hand that hated them;

He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹The waters covered their foes;

not one of them remained.

¹²Then they believed His promises

and sang His praise.

¹³Yet they soon forgot His works

and failed to wait for His counsel.

¹⁴They craved intensely in the wilderness

and tested God in the desert.

¹⁵So He granted their request,

but sent a wasting disease upon them.

¹⁶In the camp they envied Moses,

as well as Aaron, the holy one of the LORD.

¹⁷The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;

it covered the assembly of Abiram.

¹⁸Then fire blazed through their company;

flames consumed the wicked.

¹⁹At Horeb they made a calf

and worshiped a molten image.

²⁰They exchanged their Glory

for the image of a grass-eating ox.

²¹They forgot God their Savior,

who did great things in Egypt,

²²wondrous works in the land of Ham,

and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.

²³So 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.

²⁴They despised the pleasant land;

they did not believe His promise.

²⁵They grumbled in their tents

and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

²⁶So He raised His hand and swore

to cast them down in the wilderness,

²⁷to disperse their offspring among the nations

and scatter them throughout the lands.

²⁸They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor

and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.

²⁹So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds,

and a plague broke out among them.

³⁰But Phinehas stood and intervened,

and the plague was restrained.

³¹It was credited to him as righteousness

for endless generations to come.

³²At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD,

and trouble came to Moses because of them.

³³For they rebelled against His Spirit,

and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴They did not destroy the peoples

as the LORD had commanded them,

³⁵but they mingled with the nations

and adopted their customs.

³⁶They worshiped their idols,

which became a snare to them.

³⁷They sacrificed their sons

and their daughters to demons.

³⁸They 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.

³⁹They defiled themselves by their actions

and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

⁴⁰So the anger of the LORD burned against His people,

and He abhorred His own inheritance.

⁴¹He delivered them into the hand of the nations,

and those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴²Their enemies oppressed them,

and subdued them under their hand.

⁴³Many times He rescued them,

but they were bent on rebellion

and sank down in their iniquity.

⁴⁴Nevertheless He heard their cry;

He took note of their distress.

⁴⁵And He remembered His covenant with them,

and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

⁴⁶He made them objects of compassion

to all who held them captive.

⁴⁷Save 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.

⁴⁸Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel,

from everlasting to everlasting.

Let all the people say, “Amen!”

Hallelujah!

— Psalm 106:6-48

(BSB)

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