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. |
105:42 | 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; |
105:44 | 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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