Psalms 105
105
Psalm 105
The Lord’s Wonderful Works in Behalf of Israel.
1O give thanks to the Lord, call upon His name;
Make known His deeds among the people.
2Sing to Him, sing praises to Him;
Speak of all His wonderful acts and devoutly praise them.
3Glory in His holy name;
Let the hearts of those who seek and require the Lord [as their most essential need] rejoice.
4Seek and deeply long for the Lord and His strength [His power, His might];
Seek and deeply long for His face and His presence continually.
5Remember [with awe and gratitude] the wonderful things which He has done,
His amazing deeds and the judgments uttered by His mouth [on His enemies, as in Egypt], [Ps 78:43-51]
6O you offspring of Abraham, His servant,
O you sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!
7He is the Lord our God;
His judgments are in all the earth.
8¶He has remembered His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded and established to a #105:8 There were twenty-six recorded generations from Adam to Moses. The ancient rabbis took “thousand” here very literally and maintained that God originally planned to give the Law to the thousandth generation, but He foresaw that they would be wicked, so He declined to create 974 generations and gave the Law to the twenty-sixth generation (Moses) instead.thousand generations,
9 The covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His sworn oath to Isaac, [Luke 1:72, 73]
10Which He confirmed to Jacob as a statute,
To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
11Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
As the measured portion of your inheritance.”
12When there were only a few men in number,
Very few [in fact], and strangers in it;
13And they wandered from one nation to another,
From one kingdom to another people,
14He allowed no man to oppress them;
He rebuked kings for their sakes, saying, [Gen 12:17; 20:3-7]
15“Do not touch My anointed ones,
And do My prophets no harm.” [1 Chr 16:8-22]
16¶And He called for a famine upon the land [of Egypt];
He #105:16 Lit broke the whole rod of, referring to the fact that bread was stored as ring-shaped loaves on a rod. If the rod was broken, the loaves fell off and were lost or ruined.cut off every source of bread. [Gen 41:54]
17He sent a man before them,
Joseph, who was sold as a slave. [Gen 45:5; 50:20, 21]
18His feet they hurt with shackles;
# 105:18 Lit his soul came into. He was put in chains of iron,
19Until the time that his word [of prophecy regarding his brothers] came true,
The word of the Lord tested and refined him.
20The king sent and released him,
The ruler of the peoples [of Egypt], and set him free.
21He made Joseph lord of his house
And ruler of all his possessions, [Gen 41:40]
22To imprison his princes at his will,
That he might teach his elders wisdom.
23Israel also came into Egypt;
Thus Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. [Gen 46:6]
24There the Lord greatly increased [the number of] His people,
And made them more powerful than their enemies.
25¶He turned the heart [of the Egyptians] to hate His people,
To deal craftily with His servants.
26He sent Moses His servant,
And Aaron, whom He had chosen.
27They exhibited His wondrous signs among them,
Great miracles in the land of Ham (Egypt).
28He sent [thick, oppressive] darkness and made the land dark;
And Moses and Aaron did not rebel against His words. [Ex 10:22; Ps 99:7]
29He turned Egypt’s waters into blood
And caused their fish to die. [Ex 7:20, 21]
30Their land swarmed with frogs,
Even in the chambers of their kings. [Ex 8:6]
31He spoke, and there came swarms of flies
And gnats in all their territory. [Ex 8:17, 24]
32He gave them hail for rain,
With flaming fire in their land. [Ex 9:23, 25]
33He struck their vines also and their fig trees,
And shattered the [ice-laden] trees of their territory. [Ps 78:47]
34He spoke, and the [migratory] locusts came,
And the young locusts, even without number, [Ex 10:4, 13, 14]
35And ate up all the vegetation in their land,
And devoured the fruit of their ground.
36He also struck down all the firstborn in their land,
The first fruits and chief substance of all their strength. [Ex 12:29; Ps 78:51]
37¶He brought the sons of Israel out [of Egypt] with silver and gold,
And among their tribes there was not one who stumbled. [Ex 12:35]
38Egypt was glad when they departed,
For the dread and fear of them had fallen on the Egyptians. [Ex 12:33]
39The Lord spread a cloud as a covering [by day],
And a fire to illumine the night. [Ex 13:21]
40The Israelites asked, and He brought quail,
And satisfied them with the bread of heaven. [Ex 16:12-15]
41He opened the rock and water flowed out;
It ran in the dry places like a river. [Ex 17:6; Num 20:11]
42For He remembered His holy word
To Abraham His servant; [Gen 15:14]
43He brought out His people with joy,
And His chosen ones with a joyful shout,
44He gave them the lands of the nations [of Canaan],
So that they would possess the fruits of those peoples’ labor, [Deut 6:10, 11]
45So that they might observe His precepts
And keep His laws [obediently accepting and honoring and valuing them].
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)
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Psalms 105
105
God’s Fidelity to the Promise
I
1Give thanks to the Lord, invoke his name;#1 Chr 16:8–22.
make known among the peoples his deeds!#Ps 18:50; 96:3; 145:5; Is 12:4–5.
2Sing praise to him, play music;
proclaim all his wondrous deeds!
3Glory in his holy name;
let hearts that seek the Lord rejoice!
4Seek out the Lord and his might;
constantly seek his face.#Ps 24:6; 27:8.
5Recall the wondrous deeds he has done,
his wonders and words of judgment,
6You descendants of Abraham his servant,
offspring of Jacob the chosen one!
II
7He the Lord, is our God
whose judgments reach through all the earth.
8He remembers forever his covenant,
the word he commanded for a thousand generations,
9Which he made with Abraham,
and swore to Isaac,#Gn 15:1ff; 26:3.
10And ratified in a statute for Jacob,
an everlasting covenant for Israel:
11“To you I give the land of Canaan,
your own allotted inheritance.”#Gn 12:7; 15:18.
III
12When they were few in number,#Dt 4:27; 26:5.
a handful, and strangers there,
13Wandering from nation to nation,
from one kingdom to another people,
14He let no one oppress them;
for their sake he rebuked kings:#Kings: Pharaoh and Abimelech of Gerar, cf. Gn 12:17; 20:6–7.
15#My anointed ones…my prophets: the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who were “anointed” in the sense of being consecrated and recipients of God’s revelation.“Do not touch my anointed ones,
to my prophets do no harm.”
IV
16Then he called down a famine on the land,
destroyed the grain that sustained them.#The grain that sustained them: lit., every “staff of bread.”#Gn 41:54, 57.
17He had sent a man ahead of them,
Joseph, sold as a slave.#Gn 37:28, 36; 45:5.
18They shackled his feet with chains;
collared his neck in iron,#Gn 39:20.
19Till his prediction came to pass,
and the word of the Lord proved him true.#Gn 40–41.
20The king sent and released him;
the ruler of peoples set him free.#Gn 41:14.
21He made him lord over his household,
ruler over all his possessions,#Gn 41:41–44.
22To instruct his princes as he desired,
to teach his elders wisdom.
V
23Then Israel entered Egypt;#Gn 46:1–47:12; Acts 7:15.
Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.#105:23, 27] The land of Ham: a synonym for Egypt, cf. Gn 10:6.
24God greatly increased his people,
made them more numerous than their foes.#Ex 1:7; Acts 7:17.
25He turned their hearts to hate his people,
to treat his servants deceitfully.#Ex 1:8–14.
26He sent his servant Moses,
and Aaron whom he had chosen.#Ex 3:10; 4:27.
27#This Psalm and Ps 78:43–51 have an account of the plagues differing in number or in order from Ex 7:14–12:30. Several versions of the exodus story were current.They worked his signs in Egypt#Ps 78:43–51; Ex 7–12.
and wonders in the land of Ham.
28He sent darkness and it grew dark,
but they rebelled against his word.
29He turned their waters into blood
and killed their fish.
30Their land swarmed with frogs,
even the chambers of their kings.
31He spoke and there came swarms of flies,
gnats through all their country.
32For rain he gave them hail,
flashes of lightning throughout their land.
33He struck down their vines and fig trees,
shattered the trees of their country.
34He spoke and the locusts came,
grasshoppers without number.#Jl 1:4.
35They devoured every plant in the land;
they devoured the crops of their fields.
36He struck down every firstborn in the land,
the first fruits of all their vigor.
37He brought his people out,
laden with silver and gold;#Ex 12:33–36.
no one among the tribes stumbled.
38Egypt rejoiced when they left,
for fear had seized them.
VI
39He spread a cloud out as a cover,
and made a fire to light up the night.#Ps 78:14; Ex 13:21–22; Wis 18:3.
40They asked and he brought them quail;
with bread from heaven he filled them.#Ps 78:24–28; Ex 16:13–15; Nm 11:31ff; Wis 16:20.
41He split the rock and water gushed forth;
it flowed through the desert like a river.#Ps 78:15–16; Ex 17:1–7; Nm 20:11.
42For he remembered his sacred promise
to Abraham his servant.
43He brought his people out with joy,
his chosen ones with shouts of triumph.
44He gave them the lands of the nations,
they took possession of the wealth of the peoples,#Dt 4:37–40.
45That they might keep his statutes
and observe his teachings.#Dt 6:20–25; 7:8–11.
Hallelujah!
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