Psalm

105 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* with Abraham,+

And his sworn statement to Isaac,+

10 And which [statement]* 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* 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* to defraud them,+

But on their account he reproved kings,+

15 [Saying:] “Do not YOU men touch my anointed ones,*+

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.*+

17 He sent ahead of them a man*

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* came,+

The saying* 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*+

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* 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,* 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* 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.+

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!+