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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Psalms 105
105
1Give ye thanks to Jehovah — call ye in His name, Make known among the peoples His acts.
2Sing ye to Him — sing praise to Him, Meditate ye on all His wonders.
3Boast yourselves in His Holy Name, The heart of those seeking Jehovah rejoiceth.
4Seek ye Jehovah and His strength, Seek ye His face continually.
5Remember His wonders that He did, His signs and the judgments of His mouth.
6O seed of Abraham, His servant, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
7He [is] Jehovah our God, In all the earth [are] His judgments.
8He hath remembered to the age His covenant, The word He commanded to a thousand generations,
9That He hath made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac,
10And doth establish it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel — a covenant age-during,
11Saying, ‘To thee I give the land of Canaan, The portion of your inheritance,’
12In their being few in number, But a few, and sojourners in it.
13And they go up and down, from nation unto nation, From a kingdom unto another people.
14He hath not suffered any to oppress them And He reproveth for their sakes kings.
15‘Strike not against Mine anointed, And to My prophets do not evil.’
16And He calleth a famine on the land, The whole staff of bread He hath broken.
17He hath sent before them a man, For a servant hath Joseph been sold.
18They have afflicted with fetters his feet, Iron hath entered his soul,
19Till the time of the coming of His word The saying of Jehovah hath tried him.
20The king hath sent, and looseth him, The ruler of the peoples, and draweth him out.
21He hath made him lord of his house, And ruler over all his possessions.
22To bind his chiefs at his pleasure, And his elders he maketh wise.
23And Israel cometh in to Egypt, And Jacob hath sojourned in the land of Ham.
24And He maketh His people very fruitful, And maketh it mightier than its adversaries.
25He turned their heart to hate His people, To conspire against His servants.
26He hath sent Moses His servant, Aaron whom He had fixed on.
27They have set among them the matters of His signs, And wonders in the land of Ham.
28He hath sent darkness, and it is dark, And they have not provoked His word.
29He hath turned their waters to blood, And putteth to death their fish.
30Teemed hath their land [with] frogs, In the inner chambers of their kings.
31He hath said, and the beetle cometh, Lice into all their border.
32He hath made their showers hail, A flaming fire [is] in their land.
33And He smiteth their vine and their fig, And shivereth the trees of their border.
34He hath said, and the locust cometh, And the cankerworm — innumerable,
35And it consumeth every herb in their land, And it consumeth the fruit of their ground.
36And He smiteth every first-born in their land, The first-fruit of all their strength,
37And bringeth them out with silver and gold, And there is not in its tribes a feeble one.
38Rejoiced hath Egypt in their going forth, For their fear had fallen upon them.
39He hath spread a cloud for a covering, And fire to enlighten the night.
40They have asked, and He bringeth quails, And [with] bread of heaven satisfieth them.
41He hath opened a rock, and waters issue, They have gone on in dry places — a river.
42For He hath remembered His holy word, With Abraham His servant,
43And He bringeth forth His people with joy, With singing His chosen ones.
44And He giveth to them the lands of nations, And the labour of peoples they possess,
45That they may observe His statutes, And His laws may keep. Praise ye Jehovah!
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