Salmos 106:18-28

18 ateou-se um fogo no meio da congregação; e chama abrasou os ímpios.

19 Fizeram um bezerro em Horebe, e adoraram uma imagem de fundição.

20 Assim trocaram a sua glória pela figura de um boi que come erva.

21 Esqueceram-se de Deus seu Salvador, que fizera grandes coisas no Egito,

22 maravilhas na terra de Cão, coisas tremendas junto ao Mar Vermelho.

23 Pelo que os teria destruído, como dissera, se Moisés, seu escolhido, não se tivesse interposto diante dele, para desviar a sua indignação, a fim de que não os destruísse.

24 Também desprezaram a terra aprazível; não confiaram na sua promessa;

25 antes murmuraram em suas tendas e não deram ouvidos � voz do Senhor.

26 Pelo que levantou a sua mão contra eles, afirmando que os faria cair no deserto;

27 que dispersaria também a sua descendência entre as nações, e os espalharia pelas terras.

28 Também se apegaram a Baal-Peor, e comeram sacrifícios oferecidos aos mortos.

Salmos 106:18-28 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 106

This psalm is without the name of its author, as the Syriac interpreter observes. Aben Ezra, on Ps 106:47, says, that one of the wise men of Egypt (perhaps Maimonides) was of opinion that it was written in the time of the judges, when there was no king in Israel; and another, he says, thought it was written in Babylon: but he was of opinion it was wrote under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, or by a prophetic spirit, concerning their present captivity; and so Kimchi. The petition in Ps 106:47, "gather us from among the Heathen", has led most interpreters to conclude that it was written either in the Babylonish captivity, or, as some, in the times of Antiochus: but by comparing it with 1Ch 16:7, it appears that it was written by David, at the time of the bringing up of the ark to Zion; since the first and two last verses of it are there expressly mentioned, in the psalm he gave Asaph to sing on that occasion, Ps 106:34-36, who therein might have respect to the Israelites that had been taken captive by some of their neighbours, as the Philistines, and still retained; though there is no difficulty in supposing that David, under a prophetic spirit, foresaw future captivities, and represents those that were in them. As the preceding psalm treats of the mercies and favours God bestowed upon Israel, this of their sins and provocations amidst those blessings, and of the goodness of God unto them; that notwithstanding he did not destroy them from being a people; for which they had reason to be thankful.