Psalms 106:5-31

⁵May I see the good fortune of your elect, may I share in the joy of your nation, and in the pride of your heritage.

⁶We, like our fathers, have sinned, we have done perversely and wickedly

⁷In the land of Egypt our fathers, all heedless of your wonders, and unmindful of your great kindness, at the Red Sea defied the Most High.

⁸But true to his name he saved them, in order to show his might.

⁹He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried; they marched through the depths as through desert,

¹⁰saved from the hand of the hostile, redeemed from the hand of the foe.

¹¹The waters covered their enemies: not one of them was left.

¹²So then they believed in his words, and began to sing his praise.

¹³But soon they forgot his deeds: they did not wait for his counsel.

¹⁴Their greed was ravenous in the desert; they put God to the test in the wilderness.

¹⁵He gave them the thing they had asked for, but sent wasting disease among them.

¹⁶The camp grew jealous of Moses and of Aaron, holy one of the Lord.

¹⁷The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered Abiram's company.

¹⁸Fire broke out on their company, flame kindled upon the wicked.

¹⁹They made a calf in Horeb, and bowed to the molten image.

²⁰They exchanged their glorious God for the image of ox that eats grass.

²¹They forgot the God who had saved them by mighty deeds in Egypt

²²Wonders in the land of Ham, terrors by the Red Sea.

²³So he vowed, and would have destroyed them, but for Moses his elect, who stepped into the breach before him, to divert his deadly wrath.

²⁴They spurned the delightsome land, they refused to believe in his word.

²⁵They grumbled in their tents, would not listen to the voice of the Lord.

²⁶So he swore with uplifted hand to lay them low in the wilderness;

²⁷to disperse their seed among heathen, to scatter them over the world.

²⁸Then they joined them to Baal of Peor, and ate what was offered the dead.

²⁹They provoked him to wrath by their deeds, and plague broke out among them.

³⁰Then Phinehas stood between, and so the plague was stayed;

³¹and it was counted to him for righteousness unto all generations forever.