Give Thanks to the Lord, for He Is Good
1 [See Ps. 105:45above] Praise the Lord!
See Ps. 105:1Oh give thanks to the Lord, See Ps. 100:5for he is good,
See 1 Chr. 16:34,41for his steadfast love endures forever!
2 Who can utter the mighty deeds of the Lord,
or declare all his praise?
3 Blessed are they who observe justice,
who [Ps. 15:2]do righteousness at all times!
4 [Ps. 119:132]Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people;
help me when you save them,106:4 Or Remember me, O Lord, with the favor you show to your people; help me with your salvation
5 that I may look upon the prosperity of your Ps. 105:6,43chosen ones,
that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation,
that I may glory with your inheritance.
6 1 Kgs. 8:47;Ezra 9:6;Neh. 1:6,7;9:16;Jer. 3:25;14:20;Dan. 9:5Both we and Ps. 79:8;Lev. 26:40our fathers have sinned;
we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness.
7 Our fathers, when they were in Egypt,
did not consider your wondrous works;
they [ver. 13, 21] did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love,
but Ex. 14:11,12rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.
8 Yet he saved them Ezek. 20:9,14for his name’s sake,
Ex. 9:16that he might make known his mighty power.
9 He [Ps. 18:15;104:7] rebuked the Red Sea, and it Ex. 14:21;[Isa. 50:2;51:10] became dry,
and he Isa. 63:13led them through the deep as through a desert.
10 So he Ex. 14:30saved them from the hand of the foe
and Ps. 107:2redeemed them from the power of the enemy.
11 And Ex. 14:28;15:5the waters covered their adversaries;
not one of them was left.
12 Then Ex. 14:31they believed his words;
they See Ex. 15:1-21sang his praise.
13 But they soon Ps. 78:11;[Ex. 15:24;16:2;17:2] forgot his works;
they did not wait for [Ps. 107:11]his counsel.
14 But they had Num. 11:4;1 Cor. 10:6;[Ps. 78:18] a wanton craving in the wilderness,
and Ex. 17:2;1 Cor. 10:9put God to the test in the desert;
15 he Ps. 78:29gave them what they asked,
but sent Isa. 10:16a wasting disease among them.
16 When men in the camp See Num. 16:1-3were jealous of Moses
and Aaron, Deut. 33:2;Zech. 14:5;Jude 14the holy one of the Lord,
17 Num. 16:31,32;Deut. 11:6the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
and covered the company of Abiram.
18 Num. 16:35Fire also broke out in their company;
the flame burned up the wicked.
19 They Ex. 32:4;Deut. 9:8;Acts 7:41made a calf in Horeb
and worshiped a metal image.
20 They Jer. 2:11;[Rom. 1:23]exchanged the glory of God106:20 Hebrew exchanged their glory
for the image of an ox that eats grass.
21 They ver. 7, 13;Ps. 78:11;Deut. 32:18forgot God, their Savior,
who had done great things in Egypt,
22 wondrous works in Ps. 105:23,27;[Ps. 78:51]the land of Ham,
and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
23 Therefore Ex. 32:10;Deut. 9:14;Ezek. 20:8he said he would destroy them—
had not Moses, his Ps. 105:6chosen one,
Ezek. 22:30stood in the breach before him,
to turn away his wrath from destroying them.
24 Then they Num. 14:31despised Zech. 7:14the pleasant land,
having Deut. 1:32;9:23no faith in his promise.
25 They Num. 14:2;Deut. 1:27murmured in their tents,
and did not obey the voice of the Lord.
26 Therefore he Ex. 6:8;Num. 14:30;Deut. 32:40;Ezek. 20:6,15,23;[Ps. 95:11]raised his hand and swore to them
that he would make them fall in the wilderness,
27 and would make their offspring fall among the nations,
See Ps. 44:11scattering them among the lands.
28 Then they Num. 25:3;Hos. 9:10yoked themselves to the Num. 25:3;Hos. 9:10Baal of Peor,
and ate sacrifices offered to Isa. 8:19the dead;
29 they provoked the Lord to anger with their deeds,
and a plague broke out among them.
30 Then Num. 25:7,8Phinehas stood up and intervened,
and the plague was stayed.
31 And that was [Gen. 15:6]; See Num. 25:10-13counted to him as righteousness
from generation to generation forever.
32 They See Num. 20:2-13;Deut. 1:37angered him at the waters of Meribah,
and it went ill with Moses on their account,
33 for they Ps. 107:11;[Ps. 78:40;Isa. 63:10] made his spirit bitter,106:33 Or they rebelled against God’s Spirit
and he Num. 20:10spoke rashly with his lips.
34 They did not See Judg. 1:21,27-36destroy the peoples,
Deut. 7:2,16;Judg. 2:2as the Lord commanded them,
35 but they Judg. 3:5,6;[Ezra 9:2]mixed with the nations
and learned to do as they did.
36 They served their idols,
which became Ex. 23:33;Deut. 7:16;Judg. 2:3a snare to them.
37 They 2 Kgs. 16:3;Isa. 57:5;Ezek. 16:20;20:26sacrificed their sons
and their daughters to Deut. 32:17;[1 Cor. 10:20]the demons;
38 they poured out innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
and the land was Isa. 24:5polluted with blood.
39 Thus they Ezek. 20:18,30,31became unclean by their acts,
and See Ps. 73:27played the whore in their deeds.
40 Then Ps. 78:59,62;Judg. 2:14the anger of the Lord was kindled against See Ps. 28:9his people,
and he abhorred his See Ps. 28:9heritage;
41 he Neh. 9:27gave them into the hand of the nations,
so that those who hated them ruled over them.
42 Their enemies Judg. 4:3;10:12oppressed them,
and they were brought into subjection under their power.
43 Judg. 2:16Many times he delivered them,
but they were rebellious in their See Ps. 81:12purposes
and were Lev. 26:39brought low through their iniquity.
44 Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress,
when he Judg. 3:9;4:3;6:7;10:10heard their cry.
45 For their sake he Ps. 105:8;Lev. 26:42remembered his covenant,
and See Ps. 90:13relented according to ver. 7;Ps. 51:1;69:16;Isa. 63:7;Lam. 3:32the abundance of his steadfast love.
46 He caused them to be 1 Kgs. 8:50;2 Chr. 30:9;Ezra 9:9;Neh. 1:11;Jer. 42:12pitied
by all those who held them captive.
47 For ver. 47, 48, see 1 Chr. 16:35,36Save us, O Lord our God,
and See Ps. 107:3gather us from among the nations,
that we may give thanks to your holy name
and glory in your praise.
48 See Ps. 41:13Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting!
See Ps. 41:13And let all the people say, "Amen!"
See Ps. 104:35Praise the Lord!