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		Ps 106:1 Praise the LORD! (Hallelujah!) Oh give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; For His mercy and lovingkindness endure forever! [1 Chr 16:34]
		Ps 106:2 Who can put into words the mighty deeds of the LORD? Or who can proclaim all His praise [that is due Him]?
		Ps 106:3 Blessed are those who observe justice [by honoring God's precepts], Who practice righteousness at all times.
		Ps 106:4 ¶ Remember me, O LORD, when You favor Your people. Visit me with Your salvation [when You rescue them],
		Ps 106:5 That I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, That I may glory with Your inheritance.
		Ps 106:6 ¶ We have sinned like our fathers; We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly. [Lev 26:40-42]
		Ps 106:7 Our fathers in Egypt did not understand nor appreciate Your miracles; They did not remember the abundance of Your mercies nor imprint Your lovingkindnesses on their hearts, But they were rebellious at the sea, at the Red Sea. [Ex 14:21]
		Ps 106:8 Nevertheless He saved them for His name's sake, That He might make His [supreme] power known.
		Ps 106:9 He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; And He led them through the depths as through a pasture. [Ex 14:21]
		Ps 106:10 So He saved them from the hand of the one that hated them, And redeemed them from the hand of the [Egyptian] enemy. [Ex 14:30]
		Ps 106:11 And the waters covered their adversaries; Not one of them was left. [Ex 14:27, 28; 15:5]
		Ps 106:12 Then Israel believed in [the validity of] His words; They sang His praise.
		Ps 106:13 ¶ But they quickly forgot His works; They did not [patiently] wait for His counsel and purpose [to be revealed regarding them],
		Ps 106:14 But lusted intensely in the wilderness And tempted God [with their insistent desires] in the desert. [Num 11:4]
		Ps 106:15 So He gave them their request, But sent a wasting disease among them. [Ps 78:29-31]
		Ps 106:16 ¶ They envied Moses in the camp, And Aaron [the high priest], the holy one of the LORD, [Num 16:1-32]
		Ps 106:17 Therefore the earth opened and swallowed Dathan, And engulfed the company of Abiram. [Num 16:31, 32]
		Ps 106:18 And a fire broke out in their company; The flame consumed the wicked. [Num 16:35, 46]
		Ps 106:19 ¶ They made a calf in Horeb (Sinai) And worshiped a cast image. [Ex 32:4]
		Ps 106:20 Thus they exchanged [the true God who was] their glory For the image of an ox that eats grass.
		Ps 106:21 They forgot God their Savior, Who had done such great things in Egypt,
		Ps 106:22 Wonders in the land of Ham, Awesome things at the Red Sea.
		Ps 106:23 Therefore He said He would destroy them, [And He would have done so] had not Moses, His chosen one, stepped into the gap before Him, To turn away His wrath from destroying them. [Ex 32:10, 11, 32]
		Ps 106:24 Then they despised the pleasant land [of Canaan]; They did not believe in His word nor rely on it,
		Ps 106:25 But they sulked and complained in their tents; They did not listen to the voice of the LORD.
		Ps 106:26 Therefore He lifted up His hand [swearing] to them, That He would cause them to fall in the wilderness,
		Ps 106:27 And that He would cast out their descendants among the nations And scatter them in the lands [of the earth].
		Ps 106:28 ¶ They joined themselves also to [the idol] Baal of Peor, And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
		Ps 106:29 Thus they provoked Him to anger with their practices, And a plague broke out among them.
		Ps 106:30 Then Phinehas [the priest] stood up and interceded, And so the plague was halted. [Num 25:7, 8]
		Ps 106:31 And that was credited to him for righteousness, To all generations forever.
		Ps 106:32 ¶ They provoked Him to anger at the waters of Meribah, So that it went hard with Moses on their account; [Num 20:3-13]
		Ps 106:33 Because they were rebellious against His Spirit, Moses spoke recklessly with his lips.
		Ps 106:34 ¶ They did not destroy the [pagan] peoples [in Canaan], As the LORD commanded them,
		Ps 106:35 But they mingled with the [idolatrous] nations And learned their ways,
		Ps 106:36 And served their idols, Which became a [dreadful] snare to them.
		Ps 106:37 They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons [Deut 32:17; 2 Kin 16:3]
		Ps 106:38 And shed innocent blood, Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with their blood.
		Ps 106:39 In this way they became unclean in their practices; They played the prostitute in their own deeds [by giving their worship, which belongs to God alone, to other "gods"].
		Ps 106:40 ¶ Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against His people And He detested His own inheritance. [Deut 32:17]
		Ps 106:41 He gave them into the hands of the nations, And those who hated them ruled over them.
		Ps 106:42 Their enemies also oppressed them, And they were subdued under the [powerful] hand of their enemies.
		Ps 106:43 Many times He rescued them; But they were rebellious in their counsel, And sank down in their wickedness.
		Ps 106:44 ¶ Nevertheless He looked [sympathetically] at their distress When He heard their cry;
		Ps 106:45 And He remembered His covenant for their sake, And relented [rescinding their sentence] according to the greatness of His lovingkindness [when they cried out to Him],
		Ps 106:46 He also made them objects of compassion Among those who had carried them away captive. [2 Kin 25:27-30]
		Ps 106:47 ¶ Save us, O LORD our God, And gather us from among the nations, That we may give thanks to Your holy name And glory in praising You.
		Ps 106:48 Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, From everlasting even to everlasting. And let all the people say, "Amen." Praise the LORD! (Hallelujah!) [1 Chr 16:35, 36]

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