Mazmur 106:4-9

106:4 Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people!

Pay attention to me, when you deliver,

106:5 so I may see the prosperity ¹  of your chosen ones,

rejoice along with your nation, ² 

and boast along with the people who belong to you. ³ 

106:6 We have sinned like ⁴  our ancestors; ⁵ 

we have done wrong, we have done evil.

106:7 Our ancestors in Egypt failed to appreciate your miraculous deeds,

they failed to remember your many acts of loyal love,

and they rebelled at the sea, by the Red Sea. ⁶ 

106:8 Yet he delivered them for the sake of his reputation, ⁷ 

that he might reveal his power.

106:9 He shouted at ⁸  the Red Sea and it dried up;

he led them through the deep water as if it were a desert.

[106:5]  ¹ tn Heb “good.”

[106:5]  ² tn Heb “in order that [I may] rejoice with the rejoicing of your nation.”

[106:5]  ³ tn Heb “with your inheritance.”

[106:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “with.”

[106:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 7).

[106:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “Reed Sea” (also in vv. 9, 22). “Reed Sea” (or “Sea of Reeds”) is a more accurate rendering of the Hebrew expression יָם סוּף (yam suf), traditionally translated “Red Sea.” See the note on the term “Red Sea” in Exod 13:18.

[106:7]  sn They rebelled. The psalmist recalls the people’s complaint recorded in Exod 14:12.

[106:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “his name,” which here stands metonymically for God’s reputation.

[106:9]  ⁸ tn Or “rebuked.”