Psalms 106:25 Explained in Context

Read It With

• Psalms 106:24–33
• Psalms 106:1–48

Read Psalms 106:25 with 106:24–33 and 106:1–48. Read alone, “But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of…” could lose the communal voice, the parallel line or movement it develops, and the psalm's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Within Psalms 106:24–33, the communal voice carries the movement “Refusal, Baal-peor, and Meribah” as part of “Confession retells rebellion and persistent mercy.” Its historical-communal-lament form and poetic parallelism hold the petitions, images, memories, or praise together before any single line is applied.

Why This Verse Appears Here

Psalms 106:24–33 contrasts with “Craving, jealousy, and the calf” within Psalm 106 by carrying “Refusal, Baal-peor, and Meribah.” The turn from “Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the…” to “Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word” explains why this movement occurs here. Within that relationship, Psalm 106:25 turns the movement by contrasting what precedes it with “But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.”