Psalms 106:15-48

15he ^agave them what they asked,
but sent ^ba wasting disease among them.
16 When men in the camp ^cwere jealous of Moses
and Aaron, ^dthe holy one of the Lord,
17 ^ethe earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
and covered the company of Abiram.
18 ^fFire also broke out in their company;
the flame burned up the wicked.
19 They ^gmade a calf in Horeb
and worshiped a metal image.
20They ^hexchanged the glory of God ▼

▼Hebrew  exchanged their glory

for the image of an ox that eats grass.
21They ^jforgot God, their Savior,
who had done great things in Egypt,
22wondrous works in ^kthe land of Ham,
and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
23Therefore ^lhe said he would destroy them—
had not Moses, his ^mchosen one,
ⁿstood in the breach before him,
to turn away his wrath from destroying them.
24 Then they ^odespised ^pthe pleasant land,
having ^qno faith in his promise.
25They ^rmurmured in their tents,
and did not obey the voice of the Lord.
26Therefore he ^sraised his hand and swore to them
that he would make them fall in the wilderness,
27and would make their offspring fall among the nations,
^tscattering them among the lands.
28 Then they ^uyoked themselves to the ^vBaal of Peor,
and ate sacrifices offered to ^wthe dead;
29they provoked the Lord to anger with their deeds,
and a plague broke out among them.
30Then ^xPhinehas stood up and intervened,
and the plague was stayed.
31And that was ^ycounted to him as righteousness
from generation to generation forever.
32 They ^zangered him at the waters of Meribah,
and it went ill with Moses on their account,
33for they ^aamade his spirit bitter, ▼

▼Or  they rebelled against God’s Spirit

and he ^acspoke rashly with his lips.
34 They did not ^addestroy the peoples,
^aeas the Lord commanded them,
35but they ^afmixed with the nations
and learned to do as they did.
36They served their idols,
which became ^aga snare to them.
37They ^ahsacrificed their sons
and their daughters to ^aithe demons;
38they poured out innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
and the land was ^ajpolluted with blood.
39Thus they ^akbecame unclean by their acts,
and ^alplayed the whore in their deeds.
40 Then ^amthe anger of the Lord was kindled against ^anhis people,
and he abhorred his ^aoheritage;
41he ^apgave them into the hand of the nations,
so that those who hated them ruled over them.
42Their enemies ^aqoppressed them,
and they were brought into subjection under their power.
43 ^arMany times he delivered them,
but they were rebellious in their ^aspurposes
and were ^atbrought low through their iniquity.
44 Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress,
when he ^auheard their cry.
45For their sake he ^avremembered his covenant,
and ^awrelented according to ^axthe abundance of his steadfast love.
46He caused them to be ^aypitied
by all those who held them captive.
47 ^azSave us, O Lord our God,
and ^bagather us from among the nations,
that we may give thanks to your holy name
and glory in your praise.
48 ^bbBlessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting!
^bcAnd let all the people say, “Amen!”
^bdPraise the Lord!

Book Five

1 Corinthians 10:5-10

5Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for ^bethey were overthrown ▼

▼Or  were laid low

in the wilderness.

6Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as ^bgthey did. 7 ^bhDo not be idolaters ^bias some of them were; as it is written, ^bj“The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.” 8 ^bkWe must not indulge in sexual immorality ^blas some of them did, and ^bmtwenty-three thousand fell in a single day. 9We must not put Christ ▼

▼Some manuscripts the Lord

to the test, ^boas some of them did and ^bpwere destroyed by serpents, 10nor grumble, ^bqas some of them did and ^brwere destroyed by ^bsthe Destroyer.