Psalm 106
English translation got from website: https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo
- Hallelujah. Give thanks to the Lord for He is good, for His kindness is forever.
- Who can narrate the mighty deeds of the Lord? [Who] can make heard all His praise?
- Fortunate are those who keep justice, who perform righteousness at all times.
- Remember me, O Lord, when You favor Your people; be mindful of me with Your salvation.
- To see the goodness of Your chosen ones, to rejoice with the joy of Your nation, to boast with Your inheritance.
- We sinned with our forefathers; we committed iniquity and wickedness.
- Our forefathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders; they did not remember Your manifold deeds of kindness, and they were rebellious by the sea, by the Sea of Reeds.
- And He saved them for His name’s sake, to make known His might.
- And He rebuked the Sea of Reeds, and it dried up, and He led them in the depths as [in] a desert.
- He saved them from the hand of the enemy, and He redeemed them from the hand of the foe.
- And the water covered their adversaries; not one of them survived.
- And they believed His words; they sang His praise.
- Quickly, they forgot His deeds; they did not await His counsel.
- They craved a lust in the desert, and they tried God in the wasteland.
- He gave them their request, but He sent emaciation into their soul.
- They angered Moses in the camp, Aaron, the holy man of the Lord.
- The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan and covered the congregation of Abiram.
- And fire burned in their congregation; a flame burned the wicked.
- They made a calf in Horeb and prostrated themselves to a molten image.
- They exchanged their glory for the likeness of an ox eating grass.
- They forgot God, their Savior, Who wrought great deeds in Egypt.
- Wonders in the land of Ham, awesome deeds by the Sea of Reeds.
- He intended to destroy them [and would have] were it not that Moses, His chosen one, stood before Him in the breech to return His wrath from destroying.
- They rejected the desirable land; they did not believe His word.
- They complained in their tents; they did not hearken to the voice of the Lord.
- He raised His hand to them to cast them down in the desert,
- And to cast their seed among the nations and to scatter them in the lands.
- They became attached to Baal Pe’or and ate sacrifices of the dead.
- They provoked [God] with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
- Phinehas stood up and executed justice, and the plague was stopped.
- It was accounted for him as a merit, for generation to generation to eternity.
- They provoked [God] by the waters of Meribah, and Moses suffered because of them.
- For they rebelled against His spirit, and He uttered with His lips.
- They did not destroy the peoples whom the Lord had told them [to destroy].
- And they mingled with the nations and learned their deeds.
- They worshipped their idols, which became a snare for them.
- They slaughtered their sons and daughters to the demons.
- They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters whom they slaughtered to the idols of Canaan, and the land became polluted with the blood.
- And they became unclean through their deeds, and they went astray with their acts.
- And the Lord’s wrath was kindled against His people and He detested His inheritance.
- And He delivered them into the hands of nations, and their enemies ruled over them.
- And their foes oppressed them, and they were humbled under their hand.
- Many times He saved them, but they were rebellious with their counsel, and they were humbled because of their iniquity.
- But He looked upon their distress when He heard their cries.
- And He remembered His covenant for them, and He relented in accordance with His abundant kindness.
- And He caused them to be pitied by all their captors.
- Save us, O Lord, our God, and gather us from the nations, to give thanks to Your holy name, to boast with Your praise.
- Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from world to world, and all the people shall say, « Amen. » Hallelujah!