‏ Psalms 105

Psalm 105

1 Give thanks to the Lord, call on his name:
make known his deeds among the nations.
2Sing to him, make music to him,
tell of all his wondrous works.
3Make your boast in his holy name,
be glad at heart, you who seek the Lord.
4Seek after the Lord and his strength,
seek his face evermore.
5Remember the wonders he did,
his portents, the judgments he uttered.

7He is the Lord our God:
in all the earth are his judgments.
8He remembers forever his covenant,
his promise for a thousand generations
9The covenant he made with Abraham,
the oath he swore to Isaac,
10and confirmed as a statute to Jacob,
a pact everlasting to Israel
11to give them the land of Canaan
as the lot which they should inherit.

12And when they were very few,
few and but pilgrims therein,
13wandering from nation to nation,
journeying from people to people,
14he allowed no one to oppress them,
even punishing kings for their sakes.
15He forbade them to touch his anointed,
or do any hurt to his prophets.

16When he called down famine on the land,
and cut off the bread which sustained them,
17he sent before them a man,
Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
18His feet were galled with fetters,
he was laid in chains of iron,
19till the time that his word came to pass,
the word of the Lord that had tried him.

20The king sent and freed him,
the ruler of nations released him.
21He made him lord of his household,
and ruler of all his possessions,
22to admonish his princes at will
and instruct his elders in wisdom.

23Thus Israel came into Egypt,
Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
24His people he made very fruitful,
and mightier than their foes.
25He inspired them to hate his people,
and to deal with his servants craftily.

26He sent his servant Moses,
and Aaron whom he had chosen,
27portents he wrought in Egypt,
and signs in the land of Ham.
28Darkness he sent, and it fell:
yet they gave no heed to his word.

29He turned their waters into blood,
thus causing their fish to die.
30Their land was alive with frogs,
swarming even in the royal chambers.
31At his command came flies,
and lice in all their borders.
32He gave them hail for rain
and fire that flashed through the land,
33smiting their vines and figs,
breaking the trees of their border.

34At his command came locusts,
young locusts beyond all counting,
35which ate every herb in the land,
ate up, too, the fruit of their ground.
36He struck down in their land all the first-born,
the firstlings of all their strength
37Then forth he led Israel with silver and gold,
and among his tribes not one was weary.

38Egypt was glad when they left,
for terror had fallen upon them.
39He spread out a cloud to screen them,
and fire to give light in the night.
40He sent quails at their entreaty,
and heavenly bread in abundance.
41He opened the rock; waters gushed:
in the desert they ran like a river.
42For he remembered his holy promise
to Abraham his servant.

43So he led out his people with joy,
his elect with a ringing cry.
44And he gave them the lands of the nations,
the fruit of their toil for possession,
45that so they might keep his statutes,
and be of his laws observant.
Hallelujah.