Psalm 106-108 - Heartlight

¹Hallelujah!

Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good;

His loving devotion endures forever.

²Who can describe the mighty acts of the LORD

or fully proclaim His praise?

³Blessed are those who uphold justice,

who practice righteousness at all times.

⁴Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people;

visit me with Your salvation,

⁵that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones,

and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation,

and give glory with Your inheritance.

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!

¹Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good;

His loving devotion endures forever.

²Let the redeemed of the LORD say so,

whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy

³and gathered from the lands,

from east and west, from north and south.

⁴Some wandered in desert wastelands,

finding no path to a city in which to dwell.

⁵They were hungry and thirsty;

their soul fainted within them.

⁶Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble,

and He delivered them from their distress.

⁷He led them on a straight path

to reach a city where they could live.

⁸Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion

and His wonders to the sons of men.

⁹For He satisfies the thirsty

and fills the hungry with good things.

¹⁰Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,

prisoners in affliction and chains,

¹¹because they rebelled against the words of God

and despised the counsel of the Most High.

¹²He humbled their hearts with hard labor;

they stumbled, and there was no one to help.

¹³Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble,

and He saved them from their distress.

¹⁴He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death

and broke away their chains.

¹⁵Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion

and His wonders to the sons of men.

¹⁶For He has broken down the gates of bronze

and cut through the bars of iron.

¹⁷Fools, in their rebellious ways,

and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.

¹⁸They loathed all food

and drew near to the gates of death.

¹⁹Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble,

and He saved them from their distress.

²⁰He sent forth His word and healed them;

He rescued them from the Pit.

²¹Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion

and His wonders to the sons of men.

²²Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving

and declare His works with rejoicing.

²³Others went out to sea in ships,

conducting trade on the mighty waters.

²⁴They saw the works of the LORD,

and His wonders in the deep.

²⁵For He spoke and raised a tempest

that lifted the waves of the sea.

²⁶They mounted up to the heavens, then sunk to the depths;

their courage melted in their anguish.

²⁷They reeled and staggered like drunkards,

and all their skill was useless.

²⁸Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble,

and He brought them out of their distress.

²⁹He calmed the storm to a whisper,

and the waves of the sea were hushed.

³⁰They rejoiced in the silence,

and He guided them to the harbor they desired.

³¹Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion

and His wonders to the sons of men.

³²Let them exalt Him in the assembly of the people

and praise Him in the council of the elders.

³³He turns rivers into deserts,

springs of water into thirsty ground,

³⁴and fruitful land into fields of salt,

because of the wickedness of its dwellers.

³⁵He turns a desert into pools of water

and a dry land into flowing springs.

³⁶He causes the hungry to settle there,

that they may establish a city in which to dwell.

³⁷They sow fields and plant vineyards

that yield a fruitful harvest.

³⁸He blesses them, and they multiply greatly;

He does not let their herds diminish.

³⁹When they are decreased and humbled

by oppression, evil, and sorrow,

⁴⁰He pours out contempt on the nobles

and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

⁴¹But He lifts the needy from affliction

and increases their families like flocks.

⁴²The upright see and rejoice,

and all iniquity shuts its mouth.

⁴³Let him who is wise pay heed to these things

and consider the loving devotion of the LORD.

¹My heart is steadfast, O God;

I will sing and make music with all my being.

²Awake, O harp and lyre!

I will awaken the dawn.

³I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations;

I will sing Your praises among the peoples.

⁴For Your loving devotion extends beyond the heavens,

and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

⁵Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;

may Your glory cover all the earth.

⁶Respond and save us with Your right hand,

that Your beloved may be delivered.

⁷God has spoken from His sanctuary:

“I will triumph!

I will parcel out Shechem

and apportion the Valley of Succoth.

⁸Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine;

Ephraim is My helmet, Judah is My scepter.

⁹Moab is My washbasin;

upon Edom I toss My sandal;

over Philistia I shout in triumph.”

¹⁰Who will bring me to the fortified city?

Who will lead me to Edom?

¹¹Have You not rejected us, O God?

Will You no longer march out, O God, with our armies?

¹²Give us aid against the enemy,

for the help of man is worthless.

¹³With God we will perform with valor,

and He will trample our enemies.

— Psalm 106-108

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