Geneva1599 - Psalms - 106

106:1  Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord because he is good, for his mercie endureth for euer.

106:2  Who can expresse the noble actes of the Lord, or shewe forth all his prayse?

106:3  Blessed are they that keepe iudgement, and doe righteousnesse at all times.

106:4  Remember me, O Lord, with the fauour of thy people: visite me with thy saluation,

106:5  That I may see the felicitie of thy chosen, and reioyce in the ioy of thy people, and glorie with thine inheritance.

106:6  We haue sinned with our fathers: we haue committed iniquitie, and done wickedly.

106:7  Our fathers vnderstoode not thy wonders in Egypt, neither remembred they the multitude of thy mercies, but rebelled at the Sea, euen at the red sea.

106:8  Neuerthelesse he saued them for his Names sake, that he might make his power to be knowen.

106:9  And he rebuked the red Sea, and it was dryed vp, and he led them in the deepe, as in the wildernesse.

106:10  And he saued them from ye aduersaries hand, and deliuered them from ye hand of the enemie.

106:11  And the waters couered their oppressours: not one of them was left.

106:12  Then beleeued they his wordes, and sang prayse vnto him.

106:13  But incontinently they forgate his workes: they wayted not for his counsell,

106:14  But lusted with concupiscence in the wildernes, and tempted God in the desert.

106:15  Then he gaue them their desire: but he sent leannesse into their soule.

106:16  They enuied Moses also in the tentes, and Aaron the holy one of the Lord.

106:17  Therefore the earth opened and swallowed vp Dathan, and couered the companie of Abiram.

106:18  And the fire was kindled in their assembly: the flame burnt vp the wicked.

106:19  They made a calfe in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.

106:20  Thus they turned their glory into the similitude of a bullocke, that eateth grasse.

106:21  They forgate God their Sauiour, which had done great things in Egypt,

106:22  Wonderous woorkes in the lande of Ham, and fearefull things by the red Sea.

106:23  Therefore he minded to destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stand in the breach before him to turne away his wrath, least he shoulde destroy them.

106:24  Also they contemned that pleasant land, and beleeued not his worde,

106:25  But murmured in their tentes, and hearkened not vnto the voice of the Lord.

106:26  Therefore hee lifted vp his hande against them, to destroy them in the wildernesse,

106:27  And to destroy their seede among the nations, and to scatter them throughout the countries.

106:28  They ioyned themselues also vnto Baalpeor, and did eate the offrings of the dead.

106:29  Thus they prouoked him vnto anger with their owne inuentions, and the plague brake in vpon them.

106:30  But Phinehas stoode vp, and executed iudgement, and the plague was staied.

106:31  And it was imputed vnto him for righteousnes from generation to generation for euer.

106:32  They angred him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was punished for their sakes,

106:33  Because they vexed his spirite, so that hee spake vnaduisedly with his lippes.

106:34  Neither destroied they the people, as the Lord had commanded them,

106:35  But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their workes,

106:36  And serued their idoles, which were their ruine.

106:37  Yea, they offered their sonnes, and their daughters vnto deuils,

106:38  And shed innocent blood, euen the blood of their sonnes, and of their daughters, whome they offred vnto the idoles of Canaan, and the lande was defiled with blood.

106:39  Thus were they steined with their owne woorkes, and went a whoring with their owne inuentions.

106:40  Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and he abhorred his owne inheritance.

106:41  And hee gaue them into the hande of the heathen: and they that hated them, were lordes ouer them.

106:42  Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were humbled vnder their hand.

106:43  Many a time did hee deliuer them, but they prouoked him by their counsels: therefore they were brought downe by their iniquitie.

106:44  Yet hee sawe when they were in affliction, and he heard their crie.

106:45  And he remembred his couenant towarde them and repented according to the multitude of his mercies,

106:46  And gaue them fauour in the sight of all them that lead them captiues.

106:47  Saue vs, O Lord our God, and gather vs from among the heathen, that we may praise thine holy Name, and glorie in thy praise.

106:48  Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for euer and euer, and let all the people say, So be it. Praise yee the Lord.