Psalms 105

Psalms 105:1  
Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples.

Psalms 105:2  
Sing to him, sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works.

Psalms 105:3  
Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.

Psalms 105:4  
Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

Psalms 105:5  
Remember his marvelous works that he has done: his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,

Psalms 105:6  
you offspring of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

Psalms 105:7  
He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.

Psalms 105:8  
He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

Psalms 105:9  
the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,

Psalms 105:10  
and confirmed it to Jacob for a statute; to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

Psalms 105:11  
saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance,”

Psalms 105:12  
when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.

Psalms 105:13  
They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

Psalms 105:14  
He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,

Psalms 105:15  
“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”

Psalms 105:16  
He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.

Psalms 105:17  
He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.

Psalms 105:18  
They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,

Psalms 105:19  
until the time that his word happened, and Yahweh’s word proved him true.

Psalms 105:20  
The king sent and freed him, even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

Psalms 105:21  
He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions,

Psalms 105:22  
to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.

Psalms 105:23  
Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob lived in the land of Ham.

Psalms 105:24  
He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.

Psalms 105:25  
He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.

Psalms 105:26  
He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

Psalms 105:27  
They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

Psalms 105:28  
He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words.

Psalms 105:29  
He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish.

Psalms 105:30  
Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the rooms of their kings.

Psalms 105:31  
He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders.

Psalms 105:32  
He gave them hail for rain, with lightning in their land.

Psalms 105:33  
He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.

Psalms 105:34  
He spoke, and the locusts came with the grasshoppers, without number.

Psalms 105:35  
They ate up every plant in their land, and ate up the fruit of their ground.

Psalms 105:36  
He struck also all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their manhood.

Psalms 105:37  
He brought them out with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes.

Psalms 105:38  
Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen on them.

Psalms 105:39  
He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.

Psalms 105:40  
They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.

Psalms 105:41  
He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.

Psalms 105:42  
For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.

Psalms 105:43  
He brought his people out with joy, his chosen with singing.

Psalms 105:44  
He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,

Psalms 105:45  
that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!


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