Psalm 106:1-48 Book# 4 of Psalms

Psalm 106:1-48            Book# 4 of Psalms [in Smaller Chunks]

O give thanks to the Lord & praise you the Lord. For He is God & His mercy endures forever. [Jeremiah 33:11-12 The [sound] of joy & gladness & the voice of the bridegroom & the bride. [Their] voices shall say, Praise the Lord of Hosts: for the Lord is good & His mercy endures forever. And of [those] shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the [Lord's] house.

For I will cause [those] of the land [held in] captivity to return, as at the [beginning,] says the Lord. The Lord of Hosts [says this;] In this place & in all [its] cities, which [are] desolate, without man & without [animals,] shall again be a habitation [for] shepherds [having] their sheep lie down.]

Who can [express] the mighty acts of the Lord? [Genesis 12:17 And the Lord plagued Pharaoh & his house with great plagues, because of Sarai, [a.k.a. Sarah, the wife of] Abram, [a.k.a. Abraham.]

Who can [declare] all His praise? Blessed are [those who] keep [justice] & he [who] does [what is righteous] at all times. Remember me, O Lord, with the favor that You [delivered] to Your people.

O visit me with Your Salvation, [so] that I may see the good of Your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation & that I may [glorify] with Your inheritance. [Psalm 119:132 [Lord,] look upon me & be merciful to me, [like] You used to do to those [who] love Your Name.]

We have sinned with our [forefathers] & have committed [sins] & have done wickedly. [Exodus 20:4-6 Thou shall not make [for yourselves] any [carved] image, or any likeness of anything that is in the heaven above, or that is in the earth [below,] or that is in the water under the earth.

You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a Jealous God, visiting the [sin] of the children [people until] the 3rd & 4th generation of [those who] hate Me. And [showing] mercy to 1,000's of [those who] love Me.]

Our [forefathers didn't understand] Your wonders in Egypt. They [didn't remember] the multitude of Your mercies; but [provoked] Him at the sea, even at the Red Sea. [Exodus 14:10-12 And when Pharaoh drew [near,] the children [people] of Israel lifted up their eyes & [saw] the Egyptians marched after them.

And they were [very] afraid & the children [people] of Israel cried out to the Lord. And they said to Moses, Have you taken us away to die in the wilderness, because there were no graves in Egypt?

[For what reason,] have you dealt [like this] with us, to carry us [forward] out of Egypt? [Didn' we tell you in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, [so] that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.]

[Still,] He saved them for His Name's sake, [so] He might make His mighty power known. [Exodus 9:14-16 For I will at this time, send all My plagues upon your heart & upon your servants & your people; [so] that you may know that there is none like Me in all the earth.

For now, I will stretch out My hand, [so] that I will [strike] you & your people with pestilence & you shall be cut off from the earth. And [indeed,] for this very [reason,] I have raised you up, [in order] to show you My power & that My Name may be declared throughout the earth.]

Also, He rebuked the Red Sea & it was dried up: so He led them through the depths, [like] through the wilderness. [Exodus 14:21-22 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea & the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night & made the sea dry land & the waters were divided.

And the children [people] of Israel went into the midst of the [Red] Sea upon the dry ground & the waters were a wall to them on their right hand & on their left.]

And He saved them from the hand of him, [who] hated them & redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. And the waters covered their enemies. There wasn't one of them left. Then, they believed His Words & they sang His praise.

[Exodus 14:30-31 [Like this,] the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians & Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore. And Israel saw that great work [that] the Lord did upon the Egyptians & the people feared [respected] the Lord & believed the Lord & His servant, Moses.]

They soon [forgot] His works & they [didn't wait] for His [advice;] but exceedingly lusted in the wilderness & [tested] God in the desert. And He gave them their request; but sent [emptiness] into their [souls.]

[Numbers 11:31 -32 And there a wind went [out] from the Lord & brought quails from the sea & let them fall by the camp, [like] it were a day's journey on [every] side [around] the camp & [like] it [was] 2 cubits high upon the [surface] of the earth.

And the people stood up all that day & night & they gathered the quails. He [who] gathered the least, gathered 10 homers & they spread them all [around] for themselves [around] the camp.]

Also, they envied Moses in the camp & Aaron, the [Lord's] saint. [Numbers 16:2-3 And they rose up against Moses, with [some] of the children [people] of Israel & 250 princes [from] the assembly, famous men of [distinction] in the congregation.

And they gathered themselves together against Moses & Aaron & said to them, You take too much upon  [yourselves, since] all the congregation are holy, everyone of them. [For what reason,] then [do] you lift yourselves above the [Lord's] congregation?]

The earth opened & swallowed up Dathan & covered the company of Abiram. And the fire was kindled in their company & the flame burned up the wicked. They made a calf in Horeb & worshiped the [molded] image.

[Exodus 32:3-5 And all the people [broke] off the golden earrings in their ears & brought them to Aaron. And he received them [from] their hand & fashioned it with an [engraving] tool, after he had made it a [molded] calf.

And they said, These [are] your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt. And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made [a] proclamation & said, Tomorrow is a feast to the Lord.]

[Like this,] they changed their glory into the [shape] of an ox that eats grass. [Jeremiah 1:16 And I will utter My judgments against them [about] all their wickedness, [those] who have [abandoned] Me & have burned incense to other gods & worshiped the works [made] of their own hands.]

They [forgot] God, their Savior, [Who] had done great things in Egypt: wondrous works in the land of Ham & [terribly awesome] things by the Red Sea. Therefore, He said that He would destroy them [if] Moses, His chosen, hadn't stood [in front of] Him in the [torn relationship,] to turn away His [fury,] lest He should destroy them.

[Yes,] they despised the pleasant land & they [didn't] believe His Word, but [grumbled] in their tents & [didn't pay attention] to the voice of the Lord. [Numbers 14:2-3 And all the children [people] of Israel [grumbled] against Moses & Aaron.

And the whole congregation said to them, [We wanted] God, that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would [rather] God, that we had died in this wilderness! And [why] has the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, [so] that our wives & our children [are] prey? [Wouldn't] it not [be] better for us to return to Egypt?]

Therefore, He lifted up His hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness & to also overthrow their [descendants] among the nations & to scatter them in the lands. They also joined themselves to Baal Peor & ate the sacrifices of the dead.

[Numbers 25:2-3 And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods & the people [ate] & bowed down to their gods. And Israel joined [itself] to Baal Peor & the anger of the Lord [grew] against Israel.]

[By this,] they provoked Him to anger with their inventions & the plague [broke out] upon them. Then, Phinehas stood up & [delivered] judgment & so the plague was [stopped.] And that was [considered for Phinehas as] righteousness [for] all generations forever more.

They also angered Him at the waters of strife, so that it went [poorly for] Moses for their sakes; because they provoked [Moses'] spirit, so that he [spoke impulsively] with his [mouth.]

[Numbers 20:10-12 And Moses & Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock & he said to them, Hear now, you rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock? And Moses lifted up his hand & he [struck] the rock twice with his rod & the water came out abundantly & the congregation & their [animals] drank.

And the Lord [spoke] to Moses & Aaron, Because you [didn't] believe Me, to sanctify Me in the eyes of the children of Israel. Therefore, you shall not bring this congregation into the land [that] I have promised them.]

They didn't destroy the nations, [about] whom the Lord commanded them. [Judges 1:21 And the children [people] of Benjamin didn't drive out the Jebusites, [who] inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites [live] with the children [people] of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.]

But were [mixed] among the heathen & learned their works. And they served their idols, which were a snare to them. [Yes,] they sacrificed their sons & their daughters to [demons] & shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons & daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan.

And the land was polluted with [bloodshed.] They were defiled [like this] with their own works & went [like unfaithful harlots] with their own inventions.

[Isaiah 45:20 Assemble yourselves & come. Draw near together, you [who have] escaped [from] the nations. They have no knowledge, [who put] up the wood of their [carved] image & pray to a god that cannot save.]

Therefore, the [fury] of the Lord [grew] against His people, [in that] He [loathed] His own inheritance. And He gave them into the hand of the heathen. [Judges 2:14-15 And they [abandoned] the Lord God of their [forefathers, Who] brought them out of the land of Egypt & followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were [around] them. And bowed themselves to them & provoked the Lord to anger. And they [abandoned] the Lord & served Baal & Ashtaroth.]

And [those who] hated them, ruled over them. Also, their enemies oppressed them & they were brought under [the control of] their hand. Many times, He [delivered] them; but they provoked Him with their [advice] & were brought low for their [sins.]

[Judges 2:16-17 [However,] the Lord raised up judges, [who] delivered them out of the hand of those who [plundered] them. And [still] they wouldn't [pay attention] to their judges, but went [like an unfaithful harlot] after other gods & bowed themselves to them. They turned quickly [from] the [path] their [forefathers] walked, [of] obeying the commandments of the Lord, but they didn't [do] so.]

[Still,] when He heard their [out] cry, He [paid attention to] their affliction. [Judges 3:9 And when the children [people] of Israel cried [out] to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer [for] the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel, [Kenaz's] son, Caleb's younger brother.]

And He remembered His covenant [contract] for them & [withdrew,] according to the multitude of His mercies. [Judges 2:18 And when the Lord raised up judges [for] them, then the Lord was with the judge & delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For it [sorrowed] the Lord, because of their groanings, [because of those who] oppressed them & [harassed] them.]

He also made them to be pitied [by] all those [who] carried them [away as] captives. [2 Chronicles 30:9 For if you [return] again to the Lord, your brethren & your children shall find compassion before [those who] lead them [away] captive. So, that they shall come again into this land: for the Lord your God is gracious & merciful & will not turn His face away from you, if you return to Him.]

O Lord our God, Save us & gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks to Your Holy Name & to triumph in Your praise. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. And let all the people say, Amen. Praise you the Lord.