Psalm

105 Give thanks to Jehovah,+ call on his name,

Make his deeds known among the peoples!+

 2 Sing to him, sing praises* to him,

Ponder over* all his wonderful works.+

 5 Remember the wonderful works he has performed,

His miracles and the judgments he has pronounced,+

 6 You offspring* of Abraham his servant,+

You sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.+

 8 He remembers his covenant forever,+

The promise he made,* 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.*

17 He sent ahead of them a man

Who was sold to be a slave, Joseph.+

18 With fetters they bound* his feet,+

His neck was put in irons;*

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* his princes as he pleased*

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* 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* had fallen on them.+

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.+

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.