Psalm 106:13–29

¹³Yet they soon forgot His works

and failed to wait for His counsel.

¹⁴They craved intensely in the wilderness

and tested God in the desert.

¹⁵So He granted their request,

but sent a wasting disease upon them.

¹⁶In the camp they envied Moses,

as well as Aaron, the holy one of the LORD.

¹⁷The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;

it covered the assembly of Abiram.

¹⁸Then fire blazed through their company;

flames consumed the wicked.

¹⁹At Horeb^c they made a calf

and worshiped a molten image.

²⁰They exchanged their Glory^d

for the image of a grass-eating ox.

²¹They forgot God their Savior,

who did great things in Egypt,

²²wondrous works in the land of Ham,

and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.

²³So He said He would destroy them—

had not Moses His chosen one

stood before Him in the breach

to divert His wrath from destroying them.

²⁴They despised the pleasant land;

they did not believe His promise.

²⁵They grumbled in their tents

and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

²⁶So He raised His hand and swore

to cast them down in the wilderness,

²⁷to disperse^e their offspring among the nations

and scatter them throughout the lands.

²⁸They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor

and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.

²⁹So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds,

and a plague broke out among them.