Psalms 106:13-23

13Yet how quickly they forgot what he had done! They wouldn’t wait for his counsel!

14In the wilderness their desires ran wild, testing God’s patience in that dry wasteland.

15So he gave them what they asked for, but he sent a plague along with it.

16The people in the camp were jealous of Moses and envious of Aaron, the Lord’s holy priest.

17Because of this, the earth opened up; it swallowed Dathan and buried Abiram and the other rebels.

18Fire fell upon their followers; a flame consumed the wicked.

19The people made a calf at Mount Sinai; they bowed before an image made of gold.

20They traded their glorious God for a statue of a grass-eating bull.

21They forgot God, their savior, who had done such great things in Egypt—

22such wonderful things in the land of Ham, such awesome deeds at the Red Sea.

23So 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.