1750 Challoner Revision of the Douay-Rheims (DR)
Psalms 106
1 The psalmist exhorteth to praise God. 4 He prayeth for pardon of sin, as God did with the fathers. 7 The story of the people's rebellion, and God's mercy. 47 He concludeth with prayer and praise.
106:1 ¶
Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
106:2
Who shall declare the powers of the Lord? who shall set forth all his praises?
106:3
Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do justice at all times.
106:4
Remember us, O Lord, in the favour of thy people: visit us with thy salvation.
106:5
That we may see the good of thy chosen, that we may rejoice in the joy of thy nation: that thou mayst be praised with thy inheritance.
106:6
We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity.
106:7
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up to the sea, even the Red Sea.
106:8
And he saved them for his own name's sake: that he might make his power known.
106:9
And he rebuked the Red Sea and it was dried up: and he led them through the depths, as in a wilderness.
106:10
And he saved them from the hand of them that hated them: and he redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
106:11
And the water covered them that afflicted them: there was not one of them left.
106:12
And they believed his words: and they sang his praises.
106:13
They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they waited not for his counsel.
106:14
And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water.
106:15
And he gave them their request: and sent fulness into their souls.
106:16
And they provoked Moses in the camp, Aaron the holy one of the Lord.
106:17
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan: and covered the congregation of Abiron.
106:18
And a fire was kindled in their congregation: the flame burned the wicked.
106:19
They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven thing.
106:20
And they changed their glory into the likeness of a calf that eateth grass.
106:21
They forgot God, who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt,
106:22
Wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red Sea.
106:23
And 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.
106:24
And they set at nought the desirable land. They believed not his word,
106:25
And they murmured in their tents: they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord.
106:26
And he lifted up his hand over them: to overthrow them in the desert;
106:27
And to cast down their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the countries.
106:28
They also were initiated to Beelphegor: and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
106:29
And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was multiplied among them.
106:30
Then Phinees stood up, and pacified him: and the slaughter ceased.
106:31
And it was reputed to him unto justice, to generation and generation for evermore.
106:32
They provoked him also at the waters of contradiction: and Moses was afflicted for their sakes:
106:33
Because they exasperated his spirit. And he distinguished with his lips.
106:34
They did not destroy the nations of which the Lord spoke unto them.
106:35
And they were mingled among the heathens, and learned their works:
106:36
And served their idols, and it became a stumblingblock to them.
106:37
And they sacrificed their sons, and their daughters to devils.
106:38
And they shed innocent blood: the blood of their sons and of their daughters which they sacrificed to the idols of Chanaan. And the land was polluted with blood,
106:39
And was defiled with their works: and they went aside after their own inventions.
106:40
And the Lord was exceedingly angry with his people: and he abhorred his inheritance.
106:41
And he delivered them into the hands of the nations: and they that hated them had dominion over them.
106:42
And their enemies afflicted them: and they were humbled under their hands:
106:43
Many times did he deliver them. But they provoked him with their counsel: and they were brought low by their iniquities.
106:44
And he saw when they were in tribulation: and he heard their prayer.
106:45
And he was mindful of his covenant: and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
106:46
And he gave them unto mercies, in the sight of all those that had made them captives.
106:47
Save us, O Lord, our God: and gather us from among the nations: That we may give thanks to thy holy name, and may glory in thy praise.
106:48
Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say: So be it, so be it.
