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Let me share in the prosperity of your
chosen ones.
Let me rejoice in the joy of your people;
let me praise you with those who are
your heritage.
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Like our ancestors, we have sinned.
We have done wrong! We have acted
wickedly!
Our ancestors in Egypt
were not impressed by the Lord’s
miraculous deeds.
They soon forgot his many acts of kindness
to them.
Instead, they rebelled against him at the
Red Sea.*
Even so, he saved them—
to defend the honor of his name
and to demonstrate his mighty power.
He commanded the Red Sea* to dry up.
He led Israel across the sea as if it were
a desert.
So he rescued them from their enemies
and redeemed them from their foes.
Then the water returned and covered
their enemies;
not one of them survived.
Then his people believed his promises.
Then they sang his praise.
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Yet how quickly they forgot what he
had done!
They wouldn’t wait for his counsel!
In the wilderness their desires ran wild,
testing God’s patience in that dry
wasteland.
So he gave them what they asked for,
but he sent a plague along with it.
The people in the camp were jealous
of Moses
and envious of Aaron, the Lord’s
holy priest.
Because of this, the earth opened up;
it swallowed Dathan
and buried Abiram and the other rebels.
Fire fell upon their followers;
a flame consumed the wicked.
The people made a calf at Mount Sinai*;
they bowed before an image made of gold.
They traded their glorious God
for a statue of a grass-eating bull.
They forgot God, their savior,
who had done such great things
in Egypt—
such wonderful things in the land of Ham,
such awesome deeds at the Red Sea.
So he declared he would destroy them.
But Moses, his chosen one, stepped
between the Lord and the people.
He begged him to turn from his anger and
not destroy them.
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The people refused to enter the pleasant
land,
for they wouldn’t believe his promise
to care for them.
Instead, they grumbled in their tents
and refused to obey the Lord.
Therefore, he solemnly swore
that he would kill them in the wilderness,
that he would scatter their descendants*
among the nations,
exiling them to distant lands.
Then our ancestors joined in the worship
of Baal at Peor;
they even ate sacrifices offered to
the dead!
They angered the Lord with all these
things,
so a plague broke out among them.
But Phinehas had the courage to intervene,
and the plague was stopped.
So he has been regarded as a righteous man
ever since that time.
At Meribah, too, they angered the Lord,
causing Moses serious trouble.
They made Moses angry,*
and he spoke foolishly.
Israel failed to destroy the nations in
the land,
as the Lord had commanded them.
Instead, they mingled among the pagans
and adopted their evil customs.
They worshiped their idols,
which led to their downfall.
They even sacrificed their sons
and their daughters to the demons.
They shed innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters.
By sacrificing them to the idols of Canaan,
they polluted the land with murder.
They defiled themselves by their evil deeds,
and their love of idols was adultery in the
Lord’s sight.
That is why the Lord’s anger burned against
his people,
and he abhorred his own special
possession.
He handed them over to pagan nations,
and they were ruled by those who
hated them.
Their enemies crushed them
and brought them under their cruel power.
Again and again he rescued them,
but they chose to rebel against him,
and they were finally destroyed by
their sin.
106:7 Hebrew at the sea, the sea of reeds. 106:9 Hebrew sea
of reeds; also in 106:22. 106:19 Hebrew at Horeb, another
name for Sinai. 106:27 As in Syriac version; Hebrew reads he
would cause their descendants to fall. 106:33 Hebrew They
embittered his spirit.