Psalms 106 · Verse 21

Psalms 106:21

They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
Psalms 106:21, King James Version

Psalms 106:21 in other translations

BSBThey forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,
WEBThey forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,
ASVThey forgat God their Saviour, Who had done great things in Egypt,
YLTThey have forgotten God their saviour, The doer of great things in Egypt,
DARBYThey forgot God their Saviour, who had done great things in Egypt,
BBEThey had no memory of God their saviour, who had done great things in Egypt;
WebsterThey forgot God their savior, who had done great things in Egypt;

What does Psalms 106:21 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 106:19-23

19-23. From indirect setting God at naught, they pass to direct. made--though prohibited in Ex 20:4, 5 to make a likeness, even of the true God. calf--called so in contempt. They would have made an ox or bull, but their idol turned out but a calf; an imitation of the divine symbols, the cherubim; or of the sacred bull of Egyptian idolatry. The idolatry was more sinful in view of their recent experience of God's…

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 106:13-33

Those that will not wait for God's counsel, shall justly be given up to their own hearts' lusts, to walk in their own counsels. An undue desire, even for lawful things, becomes sinful. God showed his displeasure for this. He filled them with uneasiness of mind, terror of conscience, and self-reproach. Many that fare deliciously every day, and whose bodies are healthful, have leanness in their souls: no love to God…

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Psalms 106:21 in the original Hebrew

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שָׁ֭כְחוּshakh.chuthey forgotH7911
אֵ֣ל'elGodH410
מוֹשִׁיעָ֑םmo.shi.'Amdeliverer theirH3467
עֹשֶׂ֖ה'o.Seh[who] didH6213
גְדֹל֣וֹתge.do.Lotgreat [things]H1419
בְּמִצְרָֽיִם\׃be.mitz.Ra.yimin EgyptH4714

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Cross references for Psalms 106:21

  • Psalms 78:42-51

    They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. …

  • Jeremiah 2:32

    Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

  • Psalms 106:13

    They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:

  • Deuteronomy 32:17-18

    They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

  • Psalms 78:11-12

    And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them. Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

  • Psalms 135:9

    Who sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants.

  • Deuteronomy 10:21

    He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.

  • Titus 3:4-6

    But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

  • Deuteronomy 4:34

    Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

  • Isaiah 45:21

    Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the Lord? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.

  • Isaiah 12:2

    Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.

  • Nehemiah 9:10-11

    And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day. And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
forgat.
13; 78:11,12,42-51; De 32:17,18; Jer 2:32
God.
Isa 12:2; 45:21; 63:8; Ho 1:7; Lu 1:47; Tit 1:3; 2:10; 3:4-6
which.
74:13,14; 135:9; De 4:34; 6:22; 7:18,19; Ne 9:10,11

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Context

  • Psalms 106:20

    Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

  • Psalms 106:21

    They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;

  • Psalms 106:22

    Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.

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Psalms 106:21 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Olvidaron al Dios de su salud, que había hecho grandezas en Egipto;
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Ils oublièrent ✶Dieu, leur sauveur, qui avait fait de grandes choses en Égypte,
German
Elberfelder 1871
Sie vergaßen Gottes, ihres Retters, der Großes getan in Ägypten,
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Confiteantur Domino misericordiæ ejus, et mirabilia ejus filiis hominum.