Psalm 106, side by side

¹Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.

¹Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

²Who can describe the mighty acts of the LORD or fully proclaim His praise?

²Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? who can shew forth all his praise?

³Blessed are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times.

³Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.

⁴Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,

⁴Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;

⁵that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, and give glory with Your inheritance.

⁵That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.

⁶We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.

⁶We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

⁷Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.

⁷Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.

⁸Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.

⁸Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.

⁹He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.

⁹He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.

¹⁰He saved them from the hand that hated them; He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

¹⁰And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹The waters covered their foes; not one of them remained.

¹¹And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.

¹²Then they believed His promises and sang His praise.

¹²Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.

¹³Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.

¹³They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:

¹⁴They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.

¹⁴But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

¹⁵So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them.

¹⁵And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.

¹⁶In the camp they envied Moses, as well as Aaron, the holy one of the LORD.

¹⁶They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.

¹⁷The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.

¹⁷The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

¹⁸Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked.

¹⁸And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

¹⁹At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.

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

²⁰They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.

²⁰Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

²¹They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,

²¹They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;

²²wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.

²²Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.

²³So He said He would destroy them— had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.

²³Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

²⁴They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.

²⁴Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:

²⁵They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

²⁵But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.

²⁶So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,

²⁶Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:

²⁷to disperse their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

²⁷To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.

²⁸They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.

²⁸They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

²⁹So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

²⁹Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.

³⁰But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.

³⁰Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.

³¹It was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.

³¹And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.

³²At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them.

³²They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:

³³For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.

³³Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.

³⁴They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,

³⁴They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:

³⁵but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.

³⁵But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.

³⁶They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.

³⁶And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

³⁷They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

³⁷Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,

³⁸They shed innocent blood— the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.

³⁸And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

³⁹They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

³⁹Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

⁴⁰So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.

⁴⁰Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.

⁴¹He delivered them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴¹And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them.

⁴²Their enemies oppressed them, and subdued them under their hand.

⁴²Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

⁴³Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.

⁴³Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

⁴⁴Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.

⁴⁴Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:

⁴⁵And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

⁴⁵And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

⁴⁶He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.

⁴⁶He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.

⁴⁷Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.

⁴⁷Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.

⁴⁸Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Hallelujah!

⁴⁸Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.