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Psalm 106:39-41
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 106:39-41
New Catholic Bible
39 Thus, they defiled themselves by their actions
and prostituted themselves by their conduct.[a]
40 [b]Then the anger of the Lord flared up against his people,
and he abhorred his own heritage.
41 He handed them over to the nations,
and their foes became their rulers.
Footnotes
- Psalm 106:39 The people were made ritually unclean by the evils they practiced, and the land was also defiled by their wickedness (see Num 35:33f; Isa 24:5; Jer 3:1f, 9).
- Psalm 106:40 The psalmist recalls God’s tempered judgment mingling chastisements and mercies.
