Psalms 106:28-46

28They joined themselves also to [the idol] Baal of Peor, And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

29Thus they provoked Him to anger with their practices, And a plague broke out among them.

30Then Phinehas [the priest] stood up and interceded, And so the plague was halted.

31And that was credited to him for righteousness, To all generations forever.

32They provoked Him to anger at the waters of Meribah, So that it went hard with Moses on their account;

33Because they were rebellious against His Spirit, Moses spoke recklessly with his lips.

34They did not destroy the [pagan] peoples [in Canaan], As the Lord commanded them,

35But they mingled with the [idolatrous] nations And learned their ways,

36And served their idols, Which became a [dreadful] snare to them.

37They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons

38And 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.

39In 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”].

40Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against His people And He detested His own inheritance.

41He gave them into the hands of the nations, And those who hated them ruled over them.

42Their enemies also oppressed them, And they were subdued under the [powerful] hand of their enemies.

43Many times He rescued them; But they were rebellious in their counsel, And sank down in their wickedness.

44Nevertheless He looked [sympathetically] at their distress When He heard their cry;

45And 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],

46He also made them objects of compassion Among those who had carried them away captive.