Psalms 106

• 1. Praise the LORD! Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever.
• 2. Who can list the glorious miracles of the LORD? Who can ever praise him half enough?
• 3. Happy are those who deal justly with others and always do what is right.
• 4. Remember me, too, LORD, when you show favor to your people; come to me with your salvation.
• 5. Let me share in the prosperity of your chosen ones. Let me rejoice in the joy of your people; let me praise you with those who are your heritage.
• 6. Both we and our ancestors have sinned. We have done wrong! We have acted wickedly!
• 7. Our ancestors in Egypt were not impressed by the LORD's miracles. They soon forgot his many acts of kindness to them. Instead, they rebelled against him at the Red Sea.
• 8. Even so, he saved them--to defend the honor of his name and to demonstrate his mighty power.
• 9. He commanded the Red Sea to divide, and a dry path appeared. He led Israel across the sea bottom that was as dry as a desert.
• 10. So he rescued them from their enemies and redeemed them from their foes.
• 11. Then the water returned and covered their enemies; not one of them survived.
• 12. Then at last his people believed his promises. Then they finally sang his praise.
• 13. Yet how quickly they forgot what he had done! They wouldn't wait for his counsel!
• 14. In the wilderness, their desires ran wild, testing God's patience in that dry land.
• 15. So he gave them what they asked for, but he sent a plague along with it.
• 16. The people in the camp were jealous of Moses and envious of Aaron, the LORD's holy priest.
• 17. Because of this, the earth opened up; it swallowed Dathan and buried Abiram and the other rebels.
• 18. Fire fell upon their followers; a flame consumed the wicked.
• 19. The people made a calf at Mount Sinai; they bowed before an image made of gold.
• 20. They traded their glorious God for a statue of a grass-eating ox!
• 21. They forgot God, their savior, who had done such great things in Egypt--
• 22. such wonderful things in that land, such awesome deeds at the Red Sea.
• 23. So he declared he would destroy them. But Moses, his chosen one, stepped between the LORD and the people. He begged him to turn from his anger and not destroy them.
• 24. The people refused to enter the pleasant land, for they wouldn't believe his promise to care for them.
• 25. Instead, they grumbled in their tents and refused to obey the LORD.
• 26. Therefore, he swore that he would kill them in the wilderness,
• 27. that he would scatter their descendants among the nations, exiling them to distant lands.
• 28. Then our ancestors joined in the worship of Baal at Peor; they even ate sacrifices offered to the dead!
• 29. They angered the LORD with all these things, so a plague broke out among them.
• 30. But Phinehas had the courage to step in, and the plague was stopped.
• 31. So he has been regarded as a righteous man ever since that time.
• 32. At Meribah, too, they angered the LORD, causing Moses serious trouble.
• 33. They made Moses angry, and he spoke foolishly.
• 34. Israel failed to destroy the nations in the land, as the LORD had told them to.
• 35. Instead, they mingled among the pagans and adopted their evil customs.
• 36. They worshiped their idols, and this led to their downfall.
• 37. They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons.
• 38. They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters. By sacrificing them to the idols of Canaan, they polluted the land with murder.
• 39. They defiled themselves by their evil deeds, and their love of idols was adultery in the LORD's sight.
• 40. That is why the LORD's anger burned against his people, and he abhorred his own special possession.
• 41. He handed them over to pagan nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.
• 42. Their enemies crushed them and brought them under their cruel power.
• 43. Again and again he delivered them, but they continued to rebel against him, and they were finally destroyed by their sin.
• 44. Even so, he pitied them in their distress and listened to their cries.
• 45. He remembered his covenant with them and relented because of his unfailing love.
• 46. He even caused their captors to treat them with kindness.
• 47. O LORD our God, save us! Gather us back from among the nations, so we can thank your holy name and rejoice and praise you.
• 48. Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Let all the people say, "Amen!" Praise the LORD!

Psalms 107

• 1. Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever.
• 2. Has the LORD redeemed you? Then speak out! Tell others he has saved you from your enemies.
• 3. For he has gathered the exiles from many lands, from east and west, from north and south.
• 4. Some wandered in the desert, lost and homeless.
• 5. Hungry and thirsty, they nearly died.
• 6. "LORD, help!" they cried in their trouble, and he rescued them from their distress.
• 7. He led them straight to safety, to a city where they could live.
• 8. Let them praise the LORD for his great love and for all his wonderful deeds to them.
• 9. For he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.
• 10. Some sat in darkness and deepest gloom, miserable prisoners in chains.
• 11. They rebelled against the words of God, scorning the counsel of the Most High.
• 12. That is why he broke them with hard labor; they fell, and no one helped them rise again.
• 13. "LORD, help!" they cried in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress.
• 14. He led them from the darkness and deepest gloom; he snapped their chains.
• 15. Let them praise the LORD for his great love and for all his wonderful deeds to them.
• 16. For he broke down their prison gates of bronze; he cut apart their bars of iron.
• 17. Some were fools in their rebellion; they suffered for their sins.
• 18. Their appetites were gone, and death was near.
• 19. "LORD, help!" they cried in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress.
• 20. He spoke, and they were healed--snatched from the door of death.
• 21. Let them praise the LORD for his great love and for all his wonderful deeds to them.
• 22. Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and sing joyfully about his glorious acts.
• 23. Some went off in ships, plying the trade routes of the world.
• 24. They, too, observed the LORD's power in action, his impressive works on the deepest seas.
• 25. He spoke, and the winds rose, stirring up the waves.
• 26. Their ships were tossed to the heavens and sank again to the depths; the sailors cringed in terror.
• 27. They reeled and staggered like drunkards and were at their wits' end.
• 28. "LORD, help!" they cried in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress.
• 29. He calmed the storm to a whisper and stilled the waves.
• 30. What a blessing was that stillness as he brought them safely into harbor!
• 31. Let them praise the LORD for his great love and for all his wonderful deeds to them.
• 32. Let them exalt him publicly before the congregation and before the leaders of the nation.
• 33. He changes rivers into deserts, and springs of water into dry land.
• 34. He turns the fruitful land into salty wastelands, because of the wickedness of those who live there.
• 35. But he also turns deserts into pools of water, the dry land into flowing springs.
• 36. He brings the hungry to settle there and build their cities.
• 37. They sow their fields, plant their vineyards, and harvest their bumper crops.
• 38. How he blesses them! They raise large families there, and their herds of cattle increase.
• 39. When they decrease in number and become impoverished through oppression, trouble, and sorrow,
• 40. the LORD pours contempt on their princes, causing them to wander in trackless wastelands.
• 41. But he rescues the poor from their distress and increases their families like vast flocks of sheep.
• 42. The godly will see these things and be glad, while the wicked are stricken silent.
• 43. Those who are wise will take all this to heart; they will see in our history the faithful love of the LORD.

Psalms 108

• 1. My heart is confident in you, O God; no wonder I can sing your praises! Wake up, my soul!
• 2. Wake up, O harp and lyre! I will waken the dawn with my song.
• 3. I will thank you, LORD, in front of all the people. I will sing your praises among the nations.
• 4. For your unfailing love is higher than the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
• 5. Be exalted, O God, above the highest heavens. May your glory shine over all the earth.
• 6. Use your strong right arm to save me, and rescue your beloved people.
• 7. God has promised this by his holiness: "I will divide up Shechem with joy. I will measure out the valley of Succoth.
• 8. Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim will produce my warriors, and Judah will produce my kings.
• 9. Moab will become my lowly servant, and Edom will be my slave. I will shout in triumph over the Philistines."
• 10. But who will bring me into the fortified city? Who will bring me victory over Edom?
• 11. Have you rejected us, O God? Will you no longer march with our armies?
• 12. Oh, please help us against our enemies, for all human help is useless.
• 13. With God's help we will do mighty things, for he will trample down our foes.

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