Psalms 106 · Clearspring

Give Thanks to the LORD, for He Is Good

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!+

Give Thanks to the LORD, for He Is Good

Study Psalm 106