Psalms105

¹ Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done.

² Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts.

³ Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.

⁴ Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always.

⁵ Remember the wonders he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced,

⁶ you his servants, the descendants of Abraham, his chosen ones, the children of Jacob.

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

⁸ He remembers his covenant forever, the promise he made, for a thousand generations,

⁹ the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac.

¹⁰ He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:

¹¹ “To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion you will inherit.”

¹² When they were but few in number, few indeed, and strangers in it,

¹³ they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

¹⁴ He allowed no one to oppress them; for their sake he rebuked kings:

¹⁵ “Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm.”

¹⁶ He called down famine on the land and destroyed all their supplies of food;

¹⁷ and he sent a man before them— Joseph, sold as a slave.

¹⁸ They bruised his feet with shackles, his neck was put in irons,

¹⁹ till what he foretold came to pass, till the word of the Lord proved him true.

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

²¹ He made him master of his household, ruler over all he possessed,

²² to instruct his princes as he pleased and teach his elders wisdom.

²³ Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob resided as a foreigner in the land of Ham.

²⁴ The Lord made his people very fruitful; he made them too numerous for their foes,

²⁵ whose hearts he turned to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.

²⁶ He sent Moses his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

²⁷ They performed his signs among them, his wonders in the land of Ham.

²⁸ He sent darkness and made the land dark— for had they not rebelled against his words?

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

³⁰ Their land teemed with frogs, which went up into the bedrooms of their rulers.

³¹ He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats throughout their country.

³² He turned their rain into hail, with lightning throughout their land;

³³ he struck down their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their country.

³⁴ He spoke, and the locusts came, grasshoppers without number;

³⁵ they ate up every green thing in their land, ate up the produce of their soil.

³⁶ Then he struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their manhood.

³⁷ He brought out Israel, laden with silver and gold, and from among their tribes no one faltered.

³⁸ Egypt was glad when they left, because dread of Israel had fallen on them.

³⁹ He spread out a cloud as a covering, and a fire to give light at night.

⁴⁰ They asked, and he brought them quail; he fed them well with the bread of heaven.

⁴¹ He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.

⁴² For he remembered his holy promise given to his servant Abraham.

⁴³ He brought out his people with rejoicing, his chosen ones with shouts of joy;

⁴⁴ he gave them the lands of the nations, and they fell heir to what others had toiled for—

⁴⁵ that they might keep his precepts and observe his laws. Praise the Lord.