Psalm 105

¹Give thanks to the Lord and call upon his Name; *make known his deeds among the peoples.

²Sing to him, sing praises to him, *and speak of all his marvelous works.

³Glory in his holy Name; *let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.

⁴Search for the Lord and his strength; *continually seek his face.

⁵Remember the marvels he has done, *his wonders and the judgments of his mouth,

⁶O offspring of Abraham his servant, *O children of Jacob his chosen.

⁷He is the Lord our God; *his judgments prevail in all the world.

⁸He has always been mindful of his covenant, *the promise he made for a thousand generations:

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

¹⁰Which he established as a statute for Jacob, *an everlasting covenant for Israel,

¹¹Saying, “To you will I give the land of Canaan *to be your allotted inheritance.”

¹²When they were few in number, *of little account, and sojourners in the land,

¹³Wandering from nation to nation *and from one kingdom to another,

¹⁴He let no one oppress them *and rebuked kings for their sake,

¹⁵Saying, “Do not touch my anointed *and do my prophets no harm.”

¹⁶Then he called for a famine in the land *and destroyed the supply of bread.

¹⁷He sent a man before them, *Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

¹⁸They bruised his feet in fetters; *his neck they put in an iron collar.

¹⁹Until his prediction came to pass, *the word of the Lord tested him.

²⁰The king sent and released him; *the ruler of the peoples set him free.

²¹He set him as a master over his household, *as a ruler over all his possessions,

²²To instruct his princes according to his will *and to teach his elders wisdom.

²³Israel came into Egypt, *and Jacob became a sojourner in the land of Ham.

²⁴The Lord made his people exceedingly fruitful; *he made them stronger than their enemies;

²⁵Whose heart he turned, so that they hated his people, *and dealt unjustly with his servants.

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

²⁷They worked his signs among them, *and portents in the land of Ham.

²⁸He sent darkness, and it grew dark; *but the Egyptians rebelled against his words.

²⁹He turned their waters into blood *and caused their fish to die.

³⁰Their land was overrun by frogs, *in the very chambers of their kings.

³¹He spoke, and there came swarms of insects *and gnats within all their borders.

³²He gave them hailstones instead of rain, *and flames of fire throughout their land.

³³He blasted their vines and their fig trees *and shattered every tree in their country.

³⁴He spoke, and the locust came, *and young locusts without number,

³⁵Which ate up all the green plants in their land *and devoured the fruit of their soil.

³⁶He struck down the firstborn of their land, *the firstfruits of all their strength.

³⁷He led out his people with silver and gold; *in all their tribes there was not one that stumbled.

³⁸Egypt was glad of their going, *because they were afraid of them.

³⁹He spread out a cloud for a covering *and a fire to give light in the night season.

⁴⁰They asked, and quails appeared, *and he satisfied them with bread from heaven.

⁴¹He opened the rock, and water flowed, *so the river ran in the dry places.

⁴²For God remembered his holy word *and Abraham his servant.

⁴³So he led forth his people with gladness, *his chosen with shouts of joy.

⁴⁴He gave his people the lands of the nations, *and they took the fruit of others’ toil,

⁴⁵That they might keep his statutes *and observe his laws. Hallelujah!