Psalm 106:7

Translations

Modern

Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.

Traditional

Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.

Literal

Our fathers in Egypt did not consider Your wonders; they did not remember the abundance of Your kindness; and they rebelled by the sea—at the Sea of Reeds.

Latin

Patres nostri in Ægypto non intellexerunt mirabilia tua; non fuerunt memores multitudinis misericordiæ tuæ. Et irritaverunt ascendentes in mare, mare Rubrum;

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Hebrew

English

Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.

Notes

Psalms 106:6–13

The community joins together to confess their sins and their ancestors’ many acts of unbelief.

Psalms 106:1–48

The Israelite community in exile confessed the Lord’s goodness and justice and their own past sins. From their humble state in exile, they asked for redemption and restoration. They hoped to be gathered back from all the places the Lord had scattered them in his anger.
The psalm ends with a memory of the Lord’s past mercy and hope for renewed mercy (Psalm 106:44–48). Israel failed, but the Lord remains constant.
Verses 1, 47–48 (along with Psalms 96; 105:1–15) are included in David’s song of praise recorded in 1 Chronicles 16:1–43.

Theme notes and profiles

David God Works through Prayer God’s Love for Israel

Related verses

Exodus 14:11–12
They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?
Psalm 78:42
They did not remember His power—the day He redeemed them from the adversary,
Proverbs 1:22
“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
Psalm 78:11
They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.
2 Thessalonians 2:10–12
…and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.
Mark 4:12
…so that, ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven.’”
Isaiah 44:18
They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.
Psalm 105:5
Remember the wonders He has done, His marvels, and the judgments He has pronounced,
Psalm 5:7
But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temple.
Psalm 51:1
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
Ephesians 2:11
Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—
Deuteronomy 32:28–29
Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them.

Places

Egypt: Ancient nation; Israelites enslaved there; plagues and Exodus Red Sea: Sea crossed by Israelites in the Exodus

Glossary

David Exodus, the Memorial Music Psalms, Book of Red Sea Savior

Topics

Forgetting God is Forgetting His: Benefits Forgetting God: Benefits Ingratitude of Man to God Ingratitude to God: Guilt of Journey of Israel Through The Desert: Marked by Constant Murmurings and Rebellions Miracles: The Wicked: do not Understand Prayer: Confession In Red Sea: Israelites Cross; Pharaoh and his Army Drowned In Unbelief: General Scriptures Concerning

Psalm 106:7

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