Psalms 106:5-31

⁵Let me see your chosen people prosperous; let me be happy together with your nation; let me share in being proud of you with those who belong to you.

⁶We have sinned just like our forefathers. We have done wrong. We are guilty.

⁷They didn't pay attention to the wonderful things you did. They didn't keep in mind how much you loved them, but chose to rebel at the sea, the Red Sea.

⁸Even so he saved them because of the kind of person he is, and to show his power

⁹He gave his order to the Red Sea, and it dried up. He led his people across the seabed as if it were a desert.

¹⁰He rescued them from those who hated them; he saved them from their enemies' power.

¹¹The water drowned their enemies—none of them survived,

¹²Then his people trusted in what he promised, and sang his praises.

¹³But they quickly forgot what he had done for them, and they didn't listen to his advice.

¹⁴They were filled with desperate cravings in the wilderness; they provoked God in the desert.

¹⁵He gave them what they wanted, but sent them a plague as well.

¹⁶In the camp the people became jealous of Moses, and of Aaron, the Lord's holy priest.

¹⁷The earth split open and swallowed up Dathan; it buried Abiram and his followers.

¹⁸Fire broke out among them—a flame that burned them up.

¹⁹At Mount Sinai they made a calf, they bowed down before a metal idol.

²⁰They replaced their God of glory with a bull that eats grass!

²¹They forgot God, their Savior, who had done marvelous things in Egypt;

²²performing miracles in the land of Ham, doing amazing things at the Red Sea.

²³So he said he was going to destroy them But Moses, his chosen leader, placed himself between the Lord and the people to persuade the Lord not to destroy them in his anger.

²⁴Later the people refused to enter the Promised Land; they didn't trust him to do as he'd promised.

²⁵They complained in their tents about the Lord, and refused to obey what he told them.

²⁶So he raised his hand to give them a serious warning that he would bring them down in the wilderness,

²⁷that he would disperse their descendants among the heathen nations, scattering them among countries far away.

²⁸They gave their allegiance to Baal Peor, and ate food sacrificed to the dead.

²⁹They provoked the Lord by what they did, making him angry, so a plague broke out among them.

³⁰But Phinehas took a stand for the Lord and intervened, and the plague was stopped in its tracks.

³¹He has been considered as a man who lived right from that time on and for all generations.