Psalms 106-109

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.

1O God of my praise, be not silent.

2For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

3They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.

4In return for my love they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.

5They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

6Set over him a wicked man; let an accuser stand at his right hand.

7When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayer be regarded as sin.

8May his days be few; may another take his position.

9May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

10May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.

11May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

12May there be no one to extend kindness to him, and no one to favor his fatherless children.

13May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.

14May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

15May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.

16For he never thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted, even to their death.

17The cursing that he loved, may it fall on him; the blessing in which he refused to delight, may it be far from him.

18The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

19May it be like a robe wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.

20May this be the LORD’s reward to my accusers, to those who speak evil against me.

21But You, O GOD, the Lord, deal kindly with me for the sake of Your name; deliver me by the goodness of Your loving devotion.

22For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.

23I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

24My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.

25I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.

26Help me, O LORD my God; save me according to Your loving devotion.

27Let them know that this is Your hand, that You, O LORD, have done it.

28Though they curse, You will bless. When they rise up, they will be put to shame, but Your servant will rejoice.

29May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may they wear their shame like a robe.

30With my mouth I will thank the LORD profusely; I will praise Him in the presence of many.

31For He stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from the condemners of his soul.