Psalms · 48 verses
Psalms 106
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The wilderness petition is answered, but the answer arrives with a wasting disease attached.
The sea, and the memory that would not stay putvv. 1–15
The song opens with praise too large for a full description, then turns its face towards the family history: sin repeated, wonders forgotten, kindness overlooked. In Egypt, the fathers rebelled beside the Red Sea; nevertheless the sea dried at the rebuke, the enemy vanished beneath it, and belief briefly appeared, complete with singing. It did not last. Soon the people forgot the works, demanded what they craved in the wilderness, and received the request with a wasting disease tucked inside it—a rather severe parcel.
An ox where Glory had beenvv. 16–33
In the camp, envy fastened upon Moses and Aaron. The earth dealt with Dathan and the assembly of Abiram, while fire consumed the wicked. Then at Horeb came the calf: not merely an idol, but an image of a grass-eating ox exchanged for divine Glory, which is an astonishingly specific downgrade. Moses stood in the breach when destruction was threatened. Later, at Meribah, the people rebelled against the Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips; the trouble, unusually, came to Moses because of them.
The long descent, and the cry heard at lastvv. 34–48
The people did not destroy the peoples as commanded. Instead they mingled with the nations, adopted their customs, worshiped idols, and sacrificed sons and daughters to demons; the land was polluted with blood. The result was captivity and oppression, though rescue came many times and rebellion followed many times. Yet the cry of distress was heard. The covenant was remembered, loving devotion relented, and the captives became objects of compassion. The closing plea asks for gathering from the nations, ending not with an explanation but with praise, Amen, and Hallelujah.
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Ps 106:1Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
Ps 106:2Who can describe the mighty acts of the LORD or fully proclaim His praise?
Ps 106:3Blessed are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times.
Ps 106:4Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,
Ps 106:5that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, and give glory with Your inheritance.
Ps 106:6We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
Ps 106:7Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.
Ps 106:8Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.
Ps 106:9He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.
Ps 106:10He saved them from the hand that hated them; He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
Ps 106:11The waters covered their foes; not one of them remained.
Ps 106:12Then they believed His promises and sang His praise.
Ps 106:13Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.
Ps 106:14They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.
Ps 106:15So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them.
Ps 106:16In the camp they envied Moses, as well as Aaron, the holy one of the LORD.
Ps 106:17The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.
Ps 106:18Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked.
Ps 106:19At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.
Ps 106:20They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.
Ps 106:21They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,
Ps 106:22wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
Ps 106:23So 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.
Ps 106:24They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.
Ps 106:25They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.
Ps 106:26So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,
Ps 106:27to disperse their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.
Ps 106:28They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
Ps 106:29So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
Ps 106:30But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.
Ps 106:31It was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.
Ps 106:32At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them.
Ps 106:33For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.
Ps 106:34They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,
Ps 106:35but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
Ps 106:36They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.
Ps 106:37They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
Ps 106:38They 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.
Ps 106:39They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
Ps 106:40So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.
Ps 106:41He delivered them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.
Ps 106:42Their enemies oppressed them and subdued them under their hand.
Ps 106:43Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.
Ps 106:44Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.
Ps 106:45And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.
Ps 106:46He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.
Ps 106:47Save 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.
Ps 106:48Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Hallelujah!
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Where this is echoed
Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 508 passages were voted onto 48 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.
- 11 Thessalonians 5:18Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
- 4Psalms 119:132Turn to me and show me mercy, as You do to those who love Your name.
- 4Luke 23:42Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when You come into Your kingdom!”
- 11 Chronicles 16:34Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
- 1Psalms 105:1Give thanks to the LORD, call upon His name; make known His deeds among the nations.
- 4Nehemiah 13:14Remember me for this, O my God, and do not blot out my deeds of loving devotion for the house of my God and for its services.
- 4Nehemiah 13:31I also arranged for contributions of wood at the appointed times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, with favor.
- 4Psalms 25:7Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellious acts; remember me according to Your loving devotion, because of Your goodness, O LORD.
- 8Exodus 9:16But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
- 13Psalms 78:11They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.
- 30Numbers 25:6–8Just then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and the whole congregation of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
- 13Exodus 15:24So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”
- 3Psalms 15:2He who walks with integrity and practices righteousness, who speaks the truth from his heart,
- 4Nehemiah 13:22Then I instructed the Levites to purify themselves and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember me for this as well, O my God, and show me mercy according to Your abundant loving devotion.
- 8Ezekiel 20:9But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Israel by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
- 9Psalms 18:15The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at Your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
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