Psalm 106:16-33

In the camp they grew envious of Moses
    and of Aaron, who was consecrated to the Lord.
The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;
    it buried the company of Abiram.
Fire blazed among their followers;
    a flame consumed the wicked.
At Horeb they made a calf
    and worshiped an idol cast from metal.
They exchanged their glorious God
    for an image of a bull, which eats grass.
They forgot the God who saved them,
    who had done great things in Egypt,
miracles in the land of Ham
    and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
So he said he would destroy them—
    had not Moses, his chosen one,
stood in the breach before him
    to keep his wrath from destroying them.

Then they despised the pleasant land;
    they did not believe his promise.
They grumbled in their tents
    and did not obey the Lord.
So he swore to them with uplifted hand
    that he would make them fall in the wilderness,
make their descendants fall among the nations
    and scatter them throughout the lands.

They yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor
    and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods;
they aroused the Lord's anger by their wicked deeds,
    and a plague broke out among them.
But Phinehas stood up and intervened,
    and the plague was checked.
This was credited to him as righteousness
    for endless generations to come.
By the waters of Meribah they angered the Lord,
    and trouble came to Moses because of them;
for they rebelled against the Spirit of God,
    and rash words came from Moses' lips.