Psalms 106:13

Soon forgat. Verses 13–33 are the confession of Israel’s sins in the wilderness: their lust for flesh, their revolt against Moses and Aaron, the sin of the golden calf, the incident of the spies, the sin at Baal-peor, and the murmuring at Meribah.

The successive sins recalled in the psalm follow without formal transition. This tendency to pass immediately from episode to episode without expressed connection is an example of the rhetorical figure called asyndeton. It is a characteristic of Ps. 106 (see vs. 6, 7, 13, 24, etc.). The effect of the asyndeton is to leave the impression of an almost breathless recollection upon recollection of the historic mistakes of the nation of Israel, as if the people were hastening to make a full confession.

Waited not. They ran ahead of God’s plan for them. Whenever we fail to wait for God to reveal His plan for us, we fall into trouble.