Psalm 106:1-48 GNT

[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 burned up those wicked people. [19] They made a gold bull-calf at Sinai and worshiped 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 kept his anger from destroying them. [24] Then they rejected the pleasant land, because they did not believe God's promise. [25] They stayed in their tents and grumbled and would not listen to the LORD. [26] So he have 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 favor 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 worshiped 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 forever! Let everyone say, "Amen!" Praise the LORD!