Psalm, 105

¹ Give thanks to Jehovah, call on his name, Make his deeds known among the peoples!

² Sing to him, sing praises^*1 to him, Ponder over^*2 all his wonderful works.

³ Boast about his holy name. Let the hearts of those seeking Jehovah rejoice.

⁴ Search for Jehovah and his strength. Seek his face^*1 constantly.

⁵ Remember the wonderful works he has performed, His miracles and the judgments he has pronounced,

⁶ You offspring^*1 of Abraham his servant, You sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.

⁷ He is Jehovah our God. His judgments are throughout the earth.

⁸ He remembers his covenant forever, The promise he made,^*1 to a thousand generations,

⁹ The covenant he made with Abraham, And the oath he swore to Isaac,

¹⁰ Which he established as a decree to Jacob And as a lasting covenant to Israel,

¹¹ Saying, “I will give you the land of Caʹnaan As your allotted inheritance.”

¹² This was when they were few in number, Yes, very few, and they were foreigners in the land.

¹³ They walked about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people.

¹⁴ He did not allow any man to oppress them, But on their account he reproved kings,

¹⁵ Saying, “Do not touch my anointed ones, And to my prophets do nothing bad.”

¹⁶ He called down a famine on the land; He cut off their supply of bread.^*1

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

¹⁸ With fetters they bound^*1 his feet, His neck was put in irons;^*2

¹⁹ Until the time that his word proved true, The saying of Jehovah is what refined him.

²⁰ The king sent to release him, The ruler of the peoples set him free.

²¹ He made him master of his household, Ruler over all his property,

²² To have authority over^*1 his princes as he pleased^*2 And to teach his elders wisdom.

²³ Then Israel came into Egypt, And Jacob lived as a foreigner in the land of Ham.

²⁴ God made his people very fruitful; He made them mightier than their adversaries,

²⁵ Whose hearts he let change to hate his people, To plot against his servants.

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

²⁷ They performed his signs among them, His miracles in the land of Ham.

²⁸ He sent darkness and the land became dark; They did not rebel against his words.

²⁹ He changed their waters into blood And killed their fish.

³⁰ Their land swarmed with frogs, Even in the royal chambers.

³¹ He ordered the gadflies to invade And gnats in all their territories.

³² He turned their rain to hail And sent lightning^*1 on their land.

³³ He struck their vines and their fig trees And shattered the trees of their territory.

³⁴ He said that the locusts should invade, Young locusts without number.

³⁵ They devoured all the vegetation in the land, And they devoured the produce of the ground.

³⁶ Then he struck down every firstborn in their land, The beginning of their procreative power.

³⁷ He brought his people out with silver and gold; And no one among his tribes stumbled.

³⁸ Egypt rejoiced when they left, For the dread of Israel^*1 had fallen on them.

³⁹ He spread a cloud to screen them off And fire to give light by night.

⁴⁰ They asked, and he brought quail; He kept satisfying them with bread from heaven.

⁴¹ He opened a rock, and waters flowed out; These flowed through the desert like a river.

⁴² For he remembered the holy promise he had made to Abraham his servant.

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

⁴⁴ He gave them the lands of nations; They inherited what other peoples had worked hard to produce,

⁴⁵ So that they would keep his decrees And observe his laws. Praise Jah!^*1