28 And they yoked themselves to Baal-Peor, And ate the sacrifices of dead [gods]; 29 And they provoked Him by their doings, And a plague broke in upon them; 30 And Phinehas stood up and did judgment, And the plague was stayed; 31 And it was reckoned to him for righteousness, To generation after generation, for ever. 32 And they moved indignation at the waters of Meribah, And it fared ill with Moses on their account. 33 For they rebelled against [His] Spirit, And he spoke rashly with his lips. 34 They destroyed not the peoples [Of] whom Jehovah spoke to them; 35 And they mixed themselves with the nations And learned their works; 36 And they served their idols And they became to them a snare; 37 And they sacrificed their sons And their daughters to demons; 38 And they shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, And the land was profaned by bloodshed. 39 And they became unclean through their works, And committed whoredom through their doings. 40 And the anger of Jehovah kindled on His people, And He abhorred His inheritance; 41 And He gave them into the hand of the nations, And their haters lorded it over them; 42 And their enemies oppressed them, And they were bowed down under their hand. 43 Many times did He deliver them, And they--they rebelliously followed their own counsel, And were brought low through their iniquity; 44 And He looked on their distress When He heard their cry; 45 And He remembered for them His covenant, And repented according to the multitude of His loving-kindness, 46 And caused them to find compassion, In the presence of all their captors. 47 Save us, Jehovah, our God, And gather us from among the nations, That we may thank Thy holy name, That we may make our boast in Thy praise. 48 Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, From everlasting and to everlasting, And let all the people say Amen. Hallelujah! The history of God's past is a record of continuous mercies, the history of man's, one of as continuous sin. The memory of the former quickened the psalmist into his sunny song of thankfulness in the previous psalm. That of the latter moves him to the confessions in this one. They are complements of each other, and are connected not only as being both retrospective, but by the identity of their beginnings and the difference of their points of view. The parts of the early history dealt with in the one are lightly touched or altogether omitted in the other. The key-note of Psalm cv. is, "Remember His mighty deeds"; that of Psalm cvi. is, "They forgot His mighty deeds."