King James VersionPsalms106

Psalms

1 Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mer­cy endureth for ev­er.
2 Who can ut­ter the mighty acts of the LORD? who can shew forth all his praise?
3 Blessed are they that keep judg­ment, and he that doeth righ­teous­ness at all times.
4 Re­mem­ber me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bear­est unto thy peo­ple: O vis­it me with thy sal­va­tion;
5 That I may see the good of thy cho­sen, that I may re­joice in the glad­ness of thy na­tion, that I may glo­ry with thine in­her­i­tance.
6 We have sinned with our fa­thers, we have com­mit­ted in­iq­ui­ty, we have done wicked­ly.
7 Our fa­thers un­der­stood not thy won­ders in Egypt; they re­mem­bered not the mul­ti­tude of thy mer­cies; but pro­voked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
8 Nev­er­the­less he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty pow­er to be known.
9 He re­buked the Red sea al­so, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilder­ness.
10 And he saved them from the hand of him that hat­ed them, and re­deemed them from the hand of the en­e­my.
11 And the wa­ters cov­ered their en­e­mies: there was not one of them left.
12 Then be­lieved they his words; they sang his praise.
13 They soon for­gat his works; they wait­ed not for his coun­sel:
14 But lust­ed ex­ceed­ing­ly in the wilder­ness, and tempt­ed God in the desert.
15 And he gave them their re­quest; but sent lean­ness into their soul.
16 They en­vied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.
17 The earth opened and swal­lowed up Dathan, and cov­ered the com­pa­ny of Abi­ram.
18 And a fire was kin­dled in their com­pa­ny; the flame burned up the wicked.
19 They made a calf in Horeb, and wor­shipped the molten im­age.
20 Thus they changed their glo­ry into the simil­i­tude of an ox that eateth grass.
21 They for­gat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
22 Won­drous works in the land of Ham, and ter­ri­ble things by the Red sea.
23 There­fore he said that he would de­stroy them, had not Moses his cho­sen stood be­fore him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should de­stroy them.
24 Yea, they de­spised the pleas­ant land, they be­lieved not his word:
25 But mur­mured in their tents, and hear­kened not unto the voice of the LORD.
26 There­fore he lift­ed up his hand against them, to over­throw them in the wilder­ness:
27 To over­throw their seed also among the na­tions, and to scat­ter them in the lands.
28 They joined them­selves also unto Baalpe­or, and ate the sac­ri­fices of the dead.
29 Thus they pro­voked him to anger with their in­ven­tions: and the plague brake in upon them.
30 Then stood up Phine­has, and ex­e­cut­ed judg­ment: and so the plague was stayed.
31 And that was count­ed unto him for righ­teous­ness unto all gen­er­a­tions for ev­er­more.
32 They an­gered him also at the wa­ters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:
33 Be­cause they pro­voked his spir­it, so that he spake un­ad­vis­ed­ly with his lips.
34 They did not de­stroy the na­tions, con­cern­ing whom the LORD com­mand­ed them:
35 But were min­gled among the hea­then, and learned their works.
36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
37 Yea, they sac­ri­ficed their sons and their daugh­ters unto dev­ils,
38 And shed in­no­cent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daugh­ters, whom they sac­ri­ficed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was pol­lut­ed with blood.
39 Thus were they de­filed with their own works, and went a whor­ing with their own in­ven­tions.
40 There­fore was the wrath of the LORD kin­dled against his peo­ple, in­so­much that he ab­horred his own in­her­i­tance.
41 And he gave them into the hand of the hea­then; and they that hat­ed them ruled over them.
42 Their en­e­mies also op­pressed them, and they were brought into sub­jec­tion un­der their hand.
43 Many times did he de­liv­er them; but they pro­voked him with their coun­sel, and were brought low for their in­iq­ui­ty.
44 Nev­er­the­less he re­gard­ed their af­flic­tion, when he heard their cry:
45 And he re­mem­bered for them his covenant, and re­pent­ed ac­cord­ing to the mul­ti­tude of his mer­cies.
46 He made them also to be pitied of all those that car­ried them cap­tives.
47 Save us, O LORD our God, and gath­er us from among the hea­then, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to tri­umph in thy praise.
48 Blessed be the LORD God of Is­rael from ev­er­last­ing to ev­er­last­ing: and let all the peo­ple say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.