Psalms 105

Psalms 105

¹Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name!

Make his doings known among the peoples.

²Sing to him, sing praises to him!

Tell of all his marvelous works.

³Glory in his holy name.

Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.

⁴Seek Yahweh and his strength.

Seek his face forever more.

⁵Remember his marvelous works that he has done;

his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,

⁶you seed of Abraham, his servant,

you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

⁷He is Yahweh, our God.

His judgments are in all the earth.

⁸He has remembered his covenant forever,

the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

⁹the covenant which he made with Abraham,

his oath to Isaac,

¹⁰and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute;

to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

¹¹saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan,

the lot of your inheritance;”

¹²when they were but a few men in number,

yes, very few, and foreigners in it.

¹³They went about from nation to nation,

from one kingdom to another people.

¹⁴He allowed no one to do them wrong.

Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,

¹⁵“Don’t touch my anointed ones!

Do my prophets no harm!”

¹⁶He called for a famine on the land.

He destroyed the food supplies.

¹⁷He sent a man before them.

Joseph was sold for a slave.

¹⁸They bruised his feet with shackles.

His neck was locked in irons,

¹⁹until the time that his word happened,

and Yahweh’s word proved him true.

²⁰The king sent and freed him;

even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

²¹He made him lord of his house,

and ruler of all of his possessions;

²²to discipline his princes at his pleasure,

and to teach his elders wisdom.

²³Israel also came into Egypt.

Jacob lived in the land of Ham.

²⁴He increased his people greatly,

and made them stronger than their adversaries.

²⁵He turned their heart to hate his people,

to conspire against his servants.

²⁶He sent Moses, his servant,

and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

²⁷They performed miracles among them,

and wonders in the land of Ham.

²⁸He sent darkness, and made it dark.

They didn’t rebel against his words.

²⁹He turned their waters into blood,

and killed their fish.

³⁰Their land swarmed with frogs,

even in the rooms of their kings.

³¹He spoke, and swarms of flies came,

and lice in all their borders.

³²He gave them hail for rain,

with lightning in their land.

³³He struck their vines and also their fig trees,

and shattered the trees of their country.

³⁴He spoke, and the locusts came,

and the grasshoppers, without number,

³⁵ate up every plant in their land;

and ate up the fruit of their ground.

³⁶He struck also all the firstborn in their land,

the first fruits of all their manhood.

³⁷He brought them forth with silver and gold.

There was not one feeble person among his tribes.

³⁸Egypt was glad when they departed,

for the fear of them had fallen on them.

³⁹He spread a cloud for a covering,

fire to give light in the night.

⁴⁰They asked, and he brought quails,

and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.

⁴¹He opened the rock, and waters gushed out.

They ran as a river in the dry places.

⁴²For he remembered his holy word,

and Abraham, his servant.

⁴³He brought forth his people with joy,

his chosen with singing.

⁴⁴He gave them the lands of the nations.

They took the labor of the peoples in possession,

⁴⁵that they might keep his statutes,

and observe his laws.

Praise Yah!