Psalms 106
106
God Is Good
1Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!
Everyone thank God, for he is good and easy to please.
Your tender love for us, Lord, continues on forever.
2Who could ever fully describe your glorious miracles?
Yahweh, who could ever praise you enough?
3The happiest one on earth is the one who keeps your word
and clings to righteousness every moment.
4So remember me, Lord, as you take joy in your people.
And when you come to bring the blessings of salvation,
don’t forget me!
5Let me share in the wealth and beauty of all your devoted lovers,
rejoice with your nation in all their joys,
and let me share in the glory you give to your chosen ones.
6We have all sinned so much, just like our fathers.
“Guilty” is written over our lives.
7Our fathers who were delivered from Egypt
didn’t fully understand your wonders,
and they took you for granted.
Over and over you showed them such tender love and mercy!
Yet they were barely beyond the Red Sea
when they rebelled against you.
8Nonetheless, you saved them more than once
so they would know how powerful you are,
showing them the honor of your name.
9You roared over the waters of the Red Sea,
making a dry path for your people to cross through.
10You freed them from the strong power
of those who oppressed them
and rescued them from bondage.
11Then the waters rushed over their enemies and drowned them all—
not one survived.
12Seeing this, the people believed your words,
and they all broke out with songs of praise!
13Yet how quickly they forgot your miracles of power.
They wouldn’t wait for you to act when they were hungry,
14but demanded you satisfy their cravings and give them food!
They tested you to the breaking point.
15So you gave them what they wanted to eat,
but their souls starved away to nothing.
16They became envious of Moses and Aaron, your holy ones.
17You split open the earth, and it swallowed up
Dathan and Abiram along with their followers.
18Fire fell from heaven and burnt up all the band of rebels,
turning them to ashes.
19They made an idol of a calf at Sinai
and bowed to worship their man-made statue.
20They preferred the image of a grass-eating ox
to the presence of the glory-filled God.
21-22They totally forgot it was you who saved them
by the wonders and awesome miracles you worked in Egypt.
23So you decided to destroy them.
But Moses, your chosen leader,
stood in the gap between you and the people
and made intercession on their behalf
to turn away your wrath from killing them all.
24Yet they still didn’t believe your words
and they despised the land of delight you gave to them.
25They grumbled and found fault with everything
and closed their hearts to your voice.
26So you solemnly swore to them
that they would all die in the desert.
27And you scattered their children to distant lands to die as exiles.
28Then our fathers joined the worshipers
of the false god named “Lord of the Pit.”
They even ate the sacrifices offered to the dead!
29All they did made you burn with anger.
It made you so angry that a plague broke out among them!
30It continued until Phineas intervened and executed
the guilty for causing judgment to fall upon them. # 106:30 This is implicit information found in the story of Phineas (Num. 25:7–9).
31Because of this deed of righteousness
Phineas will be remembered forever.
32Your people also provoked you to wrath
at the stream called Strife. # 106:32 The word used here is Meribah, the Hebrew word for “strife” (Num. 20:1–13).
This is where Moses got into serious trouble!
33Because the people were rebellious against you,
Moses exploded in anger and spoke to them out of his bitterness.
34Neither did our fathers destroy the enemies in the land,
as you had commanded them.
35But they mingled themselves with their enemies
and learned to copy their works of darkness.
36They began to serve their gods and bow before their idols.
All of this led them away from you
and brought about their downfall.
37They even sacrificed their little children to the demon spirits,
38-39shedding the innocent blood of their sons and daughters.
These dark practices greatly defiled the land and their own souls,
through the murder and bloodshed of their own babies!
Their sins made them spiritual adulterers before you.
40This is why you were furious.
As your anger burned hot against them,
you couldn’t even stand to look
at your very own people any longer!
41So you turned them over to the crushing hands of other nations,
and those who hated them became tyrants over them.
42Oppressive enemies subdued them,
ruling over them with their tyranny.
43Many times you would have come to rescue them,
but they continued in their rebellious ways,
choosing to ignore your warnings.
Then they sank lower and lower, destroyed by their depravity.
44-45Yet even so, you waited and waited,
watching to see if they would turn
and cry out to you for a father’s help.
And then, when you heard their cry,
you relented and you remembered your covenant,
and you turned your heart toward them again,
according to your abundant, overflowing, and limitless love.
46Then you caused even their oppressors
to pity them and show them compassion.
47Do it again, Lord! Save us, O Lord, our God!
Gather us from our exile and unite us together
so that we will give our great and joyous thanks to you again
and bring you glory by our praises.
48Blessed be our Lord God forever and ever.
And let everyone everywhere say, “Hallelujah!”
Amen! Faithful is our King!
Book 5
The Deuteronomy Psalms
Psalms of praise and the Word
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106
1Praise Hashem! O give thanks unto Hashem; for He is tov; for His chesed endureth l'olam.
2Who can speak of the gevurot (mighty acts) of Hashem? Who can show forth all His tehillah (praise)?
3Ashrei (happy, blessed) are they who are shomrei mishpat, and he that doeth tzedakah at all times.
4Remember me, Hashem, with the favor that Thou bearest unto Thy people; O visit me with Thy Yeshu'ah (salvation);
5That I may see the good of Bechireicha (Thy chosen ones), that I may rejoice in the simchah of Thy nation, that I may glory with Thine nachalah (the people of Thy inheritance).
6We have sinned with Avoteinu, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
7Avoteinu had no seichal concerning Thy nifla'ot (wonders) in Mitzrayim; they remembered not the multitude of Thy mercies but provoked Him at the yam, even at the Yam Suf.
8Nevertheless He saved them for the sake of Shmo, that He might make His gevu'rot (mighty power) to be known.
9He rebuked the Yam Suf also, and it dried up; so He led them through the tehomot, as through the midbar.
10And He saved them from the yad of him that hated them, and He acted to make the go'el redemption from the yad of the oyev (enemy).
11And the mayim covered their enemies; there was not echad (one) of them left surviving.
12Then believed they in His Devarim; they sang His tehillah.
13Then they hurried, they forgot His ma'asim; they waited not for His etzah (counsel, advice, wisdom);
14But lusted exceedingly in the midbar, and tempted G-d in the desert.
15And He gave them their she'elah (request); but sent leanness into their nefesh.
16They envied Moshe also in the machaneh, and Aharon the kadosh Hashem (Aharon the holy one of Hashem).
17Eretz opened and swallowed up Datan and covered over the Adat Aviram (the company of Aviram).
18And an eish was kindled in their edah (assembly); the flame burned up the resha'im.
19They made an egel (a calf) in Chorev, and worshiped a massekhah (molden image).
20Thus they exchanged their kavod for a tavnit shor (likeness of an ox) that eateth esev (grass).
21They forgot G-d their Moshi'a, Who had done gedolot in Mitzrayim;
22Nifla'ot (wondrous works) in Eretz Cham, and nora'ot (awesome things) by the Yam Suf.
23Therefore He said that He would destroy them, had not Moshe His bechir (chosen one) stood before Him in the peretz (breach), to turn away His wrath, lest He should destroy them.
24Then they despised the eretz chemdah (desirable land); they believed not His Devar;
25But murmured in their ohalim, and paid heed not unto the kol (voice) of Hashem.
26Therefore#106:26 in oath He lifted up His yad against them, that He would overthrow them in the midbar;
27To make their zera fall also among the Goyim, and to scatter them among the aratzot (lands).
28They joined themselves also unto Ba'al-Pe'or, and ate the zivkhei mesim (sacrifices offered to the dead).
29Thus they provoked Him to anger with their inventions; and the magefah (plague) broke out among them.
30Then stood up Pinchas, and interposed; and so the magefah (plague) was halted.
31And that was counted unto him for tzedakah l'dor vador ad olam.
32They angered Him also at the waters of Merivah, so that it went ill with Moshe on their account;
33Because they provoked His Ruach#106:33 Hakodesh and he#106:33 Moshe spoke unadvisedly with his sfatayim (lips).
34They did not destroy the amim (peoples), as Hashem commanded them;
35But they mingled with the Goyim, and learned their ma'asim (works, customs).
36And they served their atzabim (idols); which were a mokesh (snare) unto them.
37And, they sacrificed their banim and their banot unto shedim (demons),
38And they shed dahm naki (innocent blood), even the dahm of their banim and of their banot, whom they sacrificed unto the atzabei Kena'an (idols of Canaan); and HaAretz was polluted with blood-guilt.
39Thus they made themselves tameh with their own ma'asim, and went a-whoring with their own inventions.
40Therefore was the wrath of Hashem kindled against His people, insomuch that He abhorred His own nachalah.
41And He gave them into the yad Goyim; and they that hated them ruled over them.
42Their oyevim also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their yad.
43Many times did He deliver them; but they provoked Him with their etzah (counsel), and so perished in their avon (iniquity).
44Nevertheless He regarded their affliction, when He heard their rinnah (cry of grief);
45And He remembered for their sake His Brit, and relented according to the multitude of His chasadim (lovingkindnesses).
46He made them also to be pitied with rachamim by all those that carried them away as captives.
47Hoshieini (save us), Hashem Eloheinu, and gather us from among the Goyim, to give thanks unto Thy Shem Kadosh, and to glory in Thy tehillah (praise).
48Baruch Hashem Elohei Yisroel min haOlam v'ad haOlam; and let kol HaAm say, Omein. Praise Hashem!
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