LEB PSA Chapter 106

Praise to Yahweh for His Faithfulness in Israel’s History

• for his loyal love is forever.
• 2 Who can utter the mighty deeds of Yahweh, or proclaim all his praise?
• 3 Blessed are those who observe justice, he who does righteousness at all times.
• 4 Remember me, O Yahweh, when you show favor to your people. Look after me when you deliver,
• 5 that I may see the good done your chosen ones, to be glad in the joy of your nation,
• to glory together with your inheritance.
• 6 We have sinned along with our ancestors.[fn] We have committed iniquity; we have incurred guilt.
• 7 Our ancestors[fn] in Egypt did not understand your wonderful works. They did not remember your many acts of loyal love,
• and so they rebelled by the sea at the Red Sea .[fn]
• 8 Yet he saved them for the sake of his name, to make known his might.
• 9 So he rebuked the Red Sea ,[fn] and it dried up, and he led them through the deep as through a desert.
• 10 Thus he saved them from the hand of the hater and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
• 11 But waters covered their adversaries; not one of them survived.
• 12 Then they believed his words; they sang his praise.
• 13 They quickly forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.
• 14 And they craved intensely[fn] in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert.
• 15 So he gave to them their request, but he sent leanness into their souls.[fn]
• 16 And they were jealous of Moses in the camp, and of Aaron, the holy one of Yahweh.
• 17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and it covered over the gang of Abiram.
• 18 Also fire burned in their assembly; the flame devoured the wicked.
• 19 They made a calf at Horeb and bowed down to a cast image.
• 20 And so they exchanged their glory for an image of an ox that eats grass.
• 21 They forgot God their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,
• 22 wonders in the land of Ham, awesome deeds by the Red Sea .[fn]
• 23 So he said he would exterminate them, had not Moses, his chosen one,
• stood in the breach before him,
• to reverse his wrath from destroying them.
• 24 Then they refused the desirable land; they did not believe his word,
• 25 but grumbled in their tents. They did not obey the voice of Yahweh.
• 26 So he made an oath[fn] against them, to make them drop in the wilderness,
• 27 and to disperse[fn] their descendants[fn] among the nations and to scatter them among the lands.
• 28 They also attached themselves to Baal of Peor, and they ate sacrifices offered to the dead.[fn]
• 29 Thus they provoked to anger by their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
• 30 Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, and so the plague was stopped,
• 31 and it was reckoned to him as righteousness throughout all generations .[fn]
• 32 They also angered God at the waters of Meribah, and it went badly for Moses on account of them,
• 33 because they rebelled against his Spirit,[fn] and he spoke thoughtlessly with his lips.
• 34 They did not exterminate the peoples, as Yahweh had commanded them,[fn]
• 35 but they mingled with the nations and learned their works,
• 36 and served their idols, which became[fn] a snare to them.
• 37 They even sacrificed their sons and daughters to the demons,
• 38 and they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters,
• whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
• and so the land was defiled with the blood.[fn]
• 39 And they became unclean by their works, and were unfaithful in their deeds.
• 40 So Yahweh’s anger burned against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance.
• 41 Then he gave them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.
• 42 And their enemies oppressed them, and they were subdued under their hand.
• 43 Many times he delivered them, but they rebelled in their counsel,
• and were brought low by their iniquity.
• 44 Yet he looked upon their distress when he heard their cry.
• 45 And he remembered his covenant with them, and relented based on the abundance of his loyal love.
• 46 And he let them find compassion[fn] before all their captors.
• 47 Save us, O Yahweh our God, and gather us from the nations,
• so that we may give thanks to your holy name
• and boast in your praise.
• 48 Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting.
• And let all the people say, “Amen!”
• Praise Yah.[fn]