Psalm 105
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v1
Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples.
v2
Sing to him, sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works.
v3
Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
v4
Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
v5
Remember his marvelous works that he has done: his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
v6
you offspring of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
v7
He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.
v8
He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
v9
the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,
v10
and confirmed it to Jacob for a statute; to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
v11
saying, โTo you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance,โ
v12
when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
v13
They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.
v14
He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
v15
โDonโt touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!โ
v16
He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.
v17
He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.
v18
They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,
v19
until the time that his word happened, and Yahwehโs word proved him true.
v20
The king sent and freed him, even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.
v21
He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions,
v22
to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.
v23
Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob lived in the land of Ham.
v24
He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.
v25
He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.
v26
He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
v27
They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
v28
He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didnโt rebel against his words.
v29
He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish.
v30
Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the rooms of their kings.
v31
He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders.
v32
He gave them hail for rain, with lightning in their land.
v33
He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.
v34
He spoke, and the locusts came with the grasshoppers, without number,
v35
ate up every plant in their land, and ate up the fruit of their ground.
v36
He struck also all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their manhood.
v37
He brought them out with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes.
v38
Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen on them.
v39
He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.
v40
They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.
v41
He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.
v42
For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.
v43
He brought his people out with joy, his chosen with singing.
v44
He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
v45
that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!