Psalms 106:8 Explained in Context

Read It With

• Psalms 106:6–12
• Psalms 106:1–48

Read Psalms 106:8 with 106:6–12 and 106:1–48. Read alone, “Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make…” could lose the communal voice, the parallel line or movement it develops, and the psalm's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Within Psalms 106:6–12, the communal voice carries the movement “Confession and rescue at the sea” 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 106:6–12 answers or redirects “Praise and a plea to share in salvation” within Psalm 106 by carrying “Confession and rescue at the sea.” The turn from “That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy…” to “We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly” explains why this movement occurs here. Within that relationship, Psalm 106:8 turns the movement by contrasting what precedes it with “Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty….”