Psalms 106:13-23

13But they soon forgot what the Lord had done to help them. They did not wait for him to tell them what to do.

14In the wilderness they wanted better food. They tested God to see what he would do.

15He gave them the food that they asked for, but he also sent a bad disease on them.

16The people became jealous of Moses, and Aaron, the Lord's special priest.

17So God made the earth break open, so that Dathan fell into it. It also destroyed Abiram and his people.

18Fire burned all their group, and it killed those wicked people.

19At Horeb, the Israelites used gold to make a cow, and they worshipped it.

20They turned away from their great God. Instead, they worshipped the statue of a cow, an animal that eats grass!

21They forgot the God who had saved them, when he did great miracles in Egypt.

22He had done powerful things in the land of Ham's descendants, and at the shore of the Red Sea. His people forgot about all that!

23So God said that he would destroy them. But God's servant, Moses, spoke on their behalf. He asked God not to be angry with his people, and God agreed.