Psalms, 105

¹ GIVE thanks to Jehovah, call upon his name, Make known among the peoples his dealings.

² Sing to him, make melody to him, Concern yourselves with all his wonderful works.

³ Make YOUR boast in his holy name. Let the heart of those seeking Jehovah rejoice.

⁴ Search for Jehovah and his strength. Seek his face constantly.

⁵ Remember his wonderful works that he has performed, His miracles and the judicial decisions of his mouth,

⁶ O YOU seed of Abraham his servant, YOU sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.

⁷ He is Jehovah our God. His judicial decisions are in all the earth.

⁸ He has remembered his covenant even to time indefinite, The word that he commanded, to a thousand generations,

⁹ Which [covenant] he concluded^*1 with Abraham, And his sworn statement to Isaac,

¹⁰ And which [statement]^*1 he kept standing as a regulation even to Jacob, As an indefinitely lasting covenant even to Israel,

¹¹ Saying: “To you I shall give the land of Caʹnaan As the allotment of YOUR inheritance.”

¹² [This was] when they^*1 happened to be few in number, Yes, very few, and alien residents in it.

¹³ And they kept walking about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people.

¹⁴ He did not allow any human^*1 to defraud them, But on their account he reproved kings,

¹⁵ [Saying:] “Do not YOU men touch my anointed ones,^*1 And to my prophets do nothing bad.”

¹⁶ And he proceeded to call for a famine upon the land; He broke every rod around which ring-shaped loaves were suspended.^*1

¹⁷ He sent ahead of them a man^*1 Who was sold to be a slave, Joseph.

¹⁸ With fetters they afflicted his feet, Into irons his soul came;

¹⁹ Until the time that his word^*1 came, The saying^*2 of Jehovah itself refined him.

²⁰ The king sent that he might release him, The ruler of the peoples, that he might let him loose.

²¹ He set him as master to his household And as ruler over all his property,

²² To bind his princes agreeably to his soul^*1 And that he might teach wisdom to even his elderly men.

²³ And Israel proceeded to come into Egypt, And Jacob himself resided as an alien in the land of Ham.

²⁴ And he kept making his people very fruitful, And gradually made them mightier than their adversaries.

²⁵ He let their heart change to hate his people, To behave cunningly against his servants.

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

²⁷ They^*1 set among them the matters of his signs, And the miracles in the land of Ham.

²⁸ He sent darkness and so made it dark; And they did not rebel against his words.

²⁹ He changed their waters into blood, And proceeded to put their fish to death.

³⁰ Their land swarmed with frogs, In the interior rooms of their kings.

³¹ He said that the gadflies should come in, Gnats in all their territories.

³² He made their downpours hail, A flaming fire on their land.

³³ And he proceeded to strike their vines and their fig trees And to break the trees of their territory.

³⁴ He said that the locusts should come in, And a species of locust,^*1 even without number.

³⁵ And they went eating all the vegetation in their land; They also went eating the fruitage of their ground.

³⁶ And he proceeded to strike down every firstborn in their land, The beginning of all their generative power.

³⁷ And he began to bring them out with silver and gold; And among his tribes there was no one stumbling along.

³⁸ Egypt rejoiced when they went out, For the dread of them had fallen upon them.

³⁹ He spread out a cloud for a screen, And fire to give light by night.

⁴⁰ They^*1 asked, and he proceeded to bring quails, And with bread from heaven he kept satisfying them.

⁴¹ He opened a rock, and waters began to flow out; These went through the waterless regions as a river.

⁴² For he remembered his holy word^*1 with Abraham his servant.

⁴³ So he brought out his people with exultation, His chosen ones even with a joyful cry.

⁴⁴ And gradually he gave them the lands of the nations, And they kept taking possession of the product of the hard work of national groups,

⁴⁵ To the end that they might keep his regulations And observe his own laws. Praise Jah, YOU people!