| 105:1 |
Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done. |
| 105:2 |
Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts. |
| 105:3 |
Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice. |
| 105:4 |
Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always. |
| 105:5 |
Remember the wonders he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced, |
| 105:6 |
O descendants of Abraham his servant, O sons of Jacob, his chosen ones. |
| 105:7 |
He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth. |
| 105:8 |
He remembers his covenant forever, the word he commanded, for a thousand generations, |
| 105:9 |
the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac. |
| 105:10 |
He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant: |
| 105:11 |
"To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion you will inherit." |
| 105:12 |
When they were but few in number, few indeed, and strangers in it, |
| 105:13 |
they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another. |
| 105:14 |
He allowed no one to oppress them; for their sake he rebuked kings: |
| 105:15 |
"Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm." |
| 105:16 |
He called down famine on the land and destroyed all their supplies of food; |
| 105:17 |
and he sent a man before them--Joseph, sold as a slave. |
| 105:18 |
They bruised his feet with shackles, his neck was put in irons, |
| 105:19 |
till what he foretold came to pass, till the word of the LORD proved him true. |
| 105:20 |
The king sent and released him, the ruler of peoples set him free. |
| 105:21 |
He made him master of his household, ruler over all he possessed, |
| 105:22 |
to instruct his princes as he pleased and teach his elders wisdom. |
| 105:23 |
Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob lived as an alien in the land of Ham. |
| 105:24 |
The LORD made his people very fruitful; he made them too numerous for their foes, |
| 105:25 |
whose hearts he turned to hate his people, to conspire against his servants. |
| 105:26 |
He sent Moses his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen. |
| 105:27 |
They performed his miraculous signs among them, his wonders in the land of Ham. |
| 105:28 |
He sent darkness and made the land dark--for had they not rebelled against his words? |
| 105:29 |
He turned their waters into blood, causing their fish to die. |
| 105:30 |
Their land teemed with frogs, which went up into the bedrooms of their rulers. |
| 105:31 |
He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats throughout their country. |
| 105:32 |
He turned their rain into hail, with lightning throughout their land; |
| 105:33 |
he struck down their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their country. |
| 105:34 |
He spoke, and the locusts came, grasshoppers without number; |
| 105:35 |
they ate up every green thing in their land, ate up the produce of their soil. |
| 105:36 |
Then he struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their manhood. |
| 105:37 |
He brought out Israel, laden with silver and gold, and from among their tribes no one faltered. |
| 105:38 |
Egypt was glad when they left, because dread of Israel had fallen on them. |
| 105:39 |
He spread out a cloud as a covering, and a fire to give light at night. |
| 105:40 |
They asked, and he brought them quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven. |
| 105:41 |
He opened the rock, and water gushed out; like a river it flowed in the desert. |
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For he remembered his holy promise given to his servant Abraham. |
| 105:43 |
He brought out his people with rejoicing, his chosen ones with shouts of joy; |
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he gave them the lands of the nations, and they fell heir to what others had toiled for-- |
| 105:45 |
that they might keep his precepts and observe his laws. Praise the LORD. |
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