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Psalms 106 (CEV)

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¹ We will celebrate and praise you, LORD! You are good to us, and your love never fails. ² No one can praise you enough for all of the mighty things you have done. ³ You bless those people who are honest and fair in everything they do. ⁴ Remember me, LORD, when you show kindness by saving your people. ⁵ Let me prosper with the rest of your chosen ones, as they celebrate with pride because they belong to you. ⁶ We and our ancestors have sinned terribly. ⁷ When they were in Egypt, they paid no attention to your marvelous deeds or your wonderful love. And they turned against you at the Red Sea. ⁸ But you were true to your name, and you rescued them to prove how mighty you are. ⁹ You said to the Red Sea, "Dry up!" Then you led your people across on land as dry as a desert. ¹⁰ You saved all of them ¹¹ and drowned every one of their enemies. ¹² Then your people trusted you and sang your praises. ¹³ But they soon forgot what you had done and rejected your advice. ¹⁴ They became greedy for food and tested you there in the desert. ¹⁵ So you gave them what they wanted, but later you destroyed them with a horrible disease. ¹⁶ Everyone in camp was jealous of Moses and of Aaron, your chosen priest. ¹⁷ Dathan and Abiram rebelled, and the earth opened up and swallowed them. ¹⁸ Then fire broke out and destroyed all of their followers. ¹⁹ At Horeb your people made and worshiped the statue ²⁰ of a bull, instead of you, their glorious God. ²¹ You worked powerful miracles to save them from Egypt, but they forgot about you ²² and the fearsome things you did at the Red Sea. ²³ You were angry and started to destroy them, but Moses, your chosen leader, begged you not to do it. ²⁴ They would not trust you, LORD, and they did not like the promised land. ²⁵ They would not obey you, and they grumbled in their tents. ²⁶ So you threatened them by saying, "I'll kill you out here in the desert! ²⁷ I'll scatter your children everywhere in the world." ²⁸ Your people became followers of a god named Baal Peor, and they ate sacrifices offered to the dead. ²⁹ They did such terrible things that you punished them with a deadly disease. ³⁰ But Phinehas helped them, and the sickness stopped. ³¹ Now he will always be highly honored. ³² At Meribah Spring they turned against you and made you furious. ³³ Then Moses got into trouble for speaking in anger. ³⁴ Our LORD, they disobeyed you by refusing to destroy the nations. ³⁵ Instead they were friendly with those foreigners and followed their customs. ³⁶ Then they fell into the trap of worshiping idols. ³⁷ They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons ³⁸ and to the gods of Canaan. Then they poured out the blood of these innocent children and made the land filthy. ³⁹ By doing such gruesome things, they also became filthy. ⁴⁰ Finally, LORD, you were angry and terribly disgusted with your people. ⁴¹ So you put them in the power of nations that hated them. ⁴² They were mistreated and abused by their enemies, ⁴³ but you saved them time after time. They were determined to rebel, and their sins caused their downfall. ⁴⁴ You answered their prayers when they were in trouble. ⁴⁵ You kept your agreement and were so merciful ⁴⁶ that their enemies had pity on them. ⁴⁷ Save us, LORD God! Bring us back from among the nations. Let us celebrate and shout in praise of your holy name. ⁴⁸ LORD God of Israel, you deserve to be praised forever and ever. Let everyone say, "Amen! Shout praises to the LORD!"