- Psalm 106:1-24 The Psalmist recalls the goodness and kindness but very soon they forget all what He did for them and committed grave sins in the eyes of the Lord vs 20;
- Abomination acts-sacrificed their children to demons Psalm 106:38;
- Rebellion and wasting away their lives in sin vs 43;
- God was angry and handed them over to their enemies vs 41;
- Plague broke out vs 29, and how it was stopped vs30;
- God heard their cries vs 44, remembered His convenant and out of his great love he relented. vs 45.
Psalms 106:1-24
[1]Praise the Lord! Give thanks to the Lord, because he is good; his love is eternal.
[2]Who can tell all the great things he has done? Who can praise him enough?
[3]Happy are those who obey his commands, who always do what is right.
[4]Remember me, Lord, when you help your people; include me when you save them.
[5]Let me see the prosperity of your people and share in the happiness of your nation, in the glad pride of those who belong to you.
[6]We have sinned as our ancestors did; we have been wicked and evil.
[7]Our ancestors in Egypt did not understand God’s wonderful acts; they forgot the many times he showed them his love, and they rebelled against the Almighty at the Red Sea.
[8]But he saved them, as he had promised, in order to show his great power.
[9]He gave a command to the Red Sea, and it dried up; he led his people across on dry land.
[10]He saved them from those who hated them; he rescued them from their enemies.
[11]But the water drowned their enemies; not one of them was left.
[12]Then his people believed his promises and sang praises to him.
[13]But they quickly forgot what he had done and acted without waiting for his advice.
[14]They were filled with craving in the desert and put God to the test;
[15]so he gave them what they asked for, but also sent a terrible disease among them.
[16]There in the desert they were jealous of Moses and of Aaron, the Lord’s holy servant.
[17]Then the earth opened up and swallowed Dathan and buried Abiram and his family;
[18]fire came down on their followers and burnt up those wicked people.
[19]They made a gold bull calf at Sinai and worshipped that idol;
[20]they exchanged the glory of God for the image of an animal that eats grass.
[21]They forgot the God who had saved them by his mighty acts in Egypt.
[22]What wonderful things he did there! What amazing things at the Red Sea!
[23]When God said that he would destroy his people, his chosen servant, Moses, stood up against God and prevented his anger from destroying them.
[24]Then they rejected the pleasant land, because they did not believe God’s promise.
Psalms 106:25-48
[25]They stayed in their tents and grumbled and would not listen to the Lord.
[26]So he gave them a solemn warning that he would make them die in the desert
[27]and scatter their descendants among the heathen, letting them die in foreign countries.
[28]Then at Peor, God’s people joined in the worship of Baal, and ate sacrifices offered to dead gods.
[29]They stirred up the Lord’s anger by their actions, and a terrible disease broke out among them.
[30]But Phinehas stood up and punished the guilty, and the plague was stopped.
[31]This has been remembered in his favour ever since and will be for all time to come.
[32]At the springs of Meribah the people made the Lord angry, and Moses was in trouble on their account.
[33]They made him so bitter that he spoke without stopping to think.
[34]They did not kill the heathen, as the Lord had commanded them to do,
[35]but they intermarried with them and adopted their pagan ways.
[36]God’s people worshipped idols, and this caused their destruction.
[37]They offered their own sons and daughters as sacrifices to the idols of Canaan.
[38]They killed those innocent children, and the land was defiled by those murders.
[39]They made themselves impure by their actions and were unfaithful to God.
[40]So the Lord was angry with his people; he was disgusted with them.
[41]He abandoned them to the power of the heathen, and their enemies ruled over them.
[42]They were oppressed by their enemies and were in complete subjection to them.
[43]Many times the Lord rescued his people, but they chose to rebel against him and sank deeper into sin.
[44]Yet the Lord heard them when they cried out, and he took notice of their distress.
[45]For their sake he remembered his covenant, and because of his great love he relented.
[46]He made all their oppressors feel sorry for them.
[47]Save us, O Lord our God, and bring us back from among the nations, so that we may be thankful and praise your holy name.
[48]Praise the Lord, the God of Israel; praise him now and for ever! Let everyone say, “Amen!” Praise the Lord!