Psalms105

¹ Give thanks to the Lord, call upon His name; Make His deeds known among the peoples.

² Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; Tell of all His wonders.

³ Boast in His holy name; May the heart of those who seek the Lord be joyful.

⁴ Seek the Lord and His strength; Seek His face continually.

⁵ Remember His wonders which He has done, His marvels and the judgments spoken by His mouth,

⁶ You descendants of Abraham, His servant, You sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!

⁷ He is the Lord our God; His judgments are in all the earth.

⁸ He has remembered His covenant forever, The word which He commanded to a thousand generations,

⁹ The covenant which He made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac.

¹⁰ Then He confirmed it to Jacob as a statute, To Israel as an everlasting covenant,

¹¹ Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan As the portion of your inheritance,”

¹² When they were only a few people in number, Very few, and strangers in it.

¹³ And they wandered from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people,

¹⁴ He allowed no one to oppress them, And He rebuked kings for their sakes, saying,

¹⁵ “Do not touch My anointed ones, And do not harm My prophets.”

¹⁶ And He called for a famine upon the land; He broke the whole staff of bread.

¹⁷ He sent a man before them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

¹⁸ They forced his feet into shackles, He was put in irons;

¹⁹ Until the time that his word came to pass, The word of the Lord refined him.

²⁰ The king sent and released him, The ruler of peoples, and set him free.

²¹ He made him lord of his house, And ruler over all his possessions,

²² To imprison his high officials at will, That he might teach his elders wisdom.

²³ Israel also came into Egypt; So Jacob lived in the land of Ham.

²⁴ And He made His people very fruitful, And made them stronger than their enemies.

²⁵ He turned their heart to hate His people, To deal cunningly with His servants.

²⁶ He sent His servant Moses, And Aaron, whom He had chosen.

²⁷ They performed His wondrous acts among them, And miracles in the land of Ham.

²⁸ He sent darkness and made it dark; And they did not rebel against His words.

²⁹ He turned their waters into blood, And caused their fish to die.

³⁰ Their land swarmed with frogs Even in the chambers of their kings.

³¹ He spoke, and a swarm of flies And gnats invaded all their territory.

³² He gave them hail for rain, And flaming fire in their land.

³³ He also struck their vines and their fig trees, And smashed the trees of their territory.

³⁴ He spoke, and locusts came, And creeping locusts, beyond number,

³⁵ And they ate all the vegetation in their land, And ate the fruit of their ground.

³⁶ He also fatally struck all the firstborn in their land, The first fruits of all their vigor.

³⁷ Then He brought the Israelites out with silver and gold, And among His tribes there was not one who stumbled.

³⁸ Egypt was glad when they departed, For the dread of them had fallen upon the Egyptians.

³⁹ He spread out a cloud as a covering, And fire to illumine by night.

⁴⁰ They asked, and He brought quail, And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

⁴¹ He opened the rock and water flowed out; It ran in the dry places like a river.

⁴² For He remembered His holy word With His servant Abraham;

⁴³ And He led out His people with joy, His chosen ones with a joyful shout.

⁴⁴ He also gave them the lands of the nations, So that they might take possession of the fruit of the peoples’ labor,

⁴⁵ And that they might keep His statutes And comply with His laws; Praise the Lord!