Psalms 105
105
Psalm 105
1Give thanks to the Lord.
Call on him.
Make known among the nations what he has done.
2Sing to him.
Make music to praise him.
Meditate on all the miracles he has performed.
3Brag about his holy name.
Let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.
4Search for the Lord and his strength.
Always seek his presence.
5Remember the miracles he performed,
the amazing things he did, and the judgments he pronounced,
6you descendants of his servant Abraham,
you descendants of Jacob, his chosen ones.
7He is the Lord our God.
His judgments are pronounced throughout the earth.
8He always remembers his promise,#105:8 Or “covenant.”
the word that he commanded for a thousand generations,
9the promise that he made to Abraham,
and his sworn oath to Isaac.
10He confirmed it as a law for Jacob,
as an everlasting promise to Israel,
11by saying, “I will give you the land of Canaan.
It is your share of the inheritance.”
12While the people of Israel were few in number,
a small group of foreigners living in that land,
13they wandered from nation to nation,
from one kingdom to another.
14He didn’t permit anyone to oppress them.
He warned kings about them:
15“Do not touch my anointed ones
or harm my prophets.”
16He brought famine to the land.
He took away their food supply.
17He sent a man ahead of them.
He sent Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
18They hurt his feet with shackles,
and cut into his neck with an iron collar.
19The Lord’s promise tested him through fiery trials
until his prediction came true.
20The king sent someone to release him.
The ruler of nations set him free.
21He made Joseph the master of his palace
and the ruler of all his possessions.
22Joseph trained the king’s officers the way he wanted
and taught his respected leaders wisdom.
23Then Israel came to Egypt.
Jacob lived as a foreigner in the land of Ham.
24The Lord made his people grow rapidly in number
and stronger than their enemies.
25He changed their minds so that they hated his people,
and they dealt treacherously with his servants.
26He sent his servant Moses, and he sent Aaron, whom he had chosen.
27They displayed his miraculous signs among them
and did amazing things in the land of Ham.
28He sent darkness and made ⌞their land⌟ dark.
They did not rebel against his orders.
29He turned their water into blood
and caused their fish to die.
30He made their land swarm with frogs,
even in the kings’ bedrooms.
31He spoke, and swarms of flies and gnats
infested their whole territory.
32He gave them hail and lightning
instead of rain throughout their land.
33He struck their grapevines and fig trees
and smashed the trees in their territory.
34He spoke, and countless locusts and grasshoppers came.
35They devoured all the plants in the land.
They devoured the crops in the fields.
36He killed all the firstborn sons,
the first ones born in the land when their fathers were young.
37He brought Israel out with silver and gold,
and no one among his tribes stumbled.
38The Egyptians were terrified of Israel,
so they were glad when Israel left.
39He spread out a cloud as a protective covering
and a fire to light up the night.
40The Israelites asked, and he brought them quail
and filled them with bread from heaven.
41He opened a rock, and water gushed
and flowed like a river through the dry places.
42He remembered his holy promise to his servant Abraham.
43He brought his people out with joy,
his chosen ones with a song of joy.
44He gave them the lands of ⌞other⌟ nations,
and they inherited what others had worked for
45so that they would obey his laws
and follow his teachings.
Hallelujah!
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Psalm 105
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Psalm 105
1Give praise to the Lord and announce who he is.
Tell the nations what he has done.
2Sing to him, sing praise to him.
Tell about all the wonderful things he has done.
3Praise him, because his name is holy.
Let the hearts of those who trust in the Lord be glad.
4Seek the Lord and the strength he gives.
Always seek him.
5Remember the wonderful things he has done.
Remember his miracles and how he judged our enemies.
6Remember what he has done, you children of his servant Abraham.
Remember it, you people of Jacob, God’s chosen ones.
7He is the Lord our God.
He judges the whole earth.
8He will keep his covenant forever.
He will keep his promise for all time to come.
9He will keep the covenant he made with Abraham.
He will keep the promise he made to Isaac.
10He made it stand as a law for Jacob.
He made it stand as a covenant for Israel that will last forever.
11He said, “I will give you the land of Canaan.
It will belong to you.”
12At first there weren’t very many of God’s people.
There were only a few, and they were strangers in the land.
13They wandered from nation to nation.
They wandered from one kingdom to another.
14But God didn’t allow anyone to treat them badly.
To keep them safe, he gave a command to kings.
15He said to them, “Do not touch my anointed ones.
Do not harm my prophets.”
16He made the people in the land go hungry.
He destroyed all their food supplies.
17He sent a man ahead of them into Egypt.
That man was Joseph. He had been sold as a slave.
18The Egyptians put his feet in chains.
They put an iron collar around his neck.
19He was in prison until what he said would happen came true.
The word of the Lord proved that he was right.
20The king of Egypt sent for Joseph and let him out of prison.
The ruler of many nations set him free.
21He put Joseph in charge of his palace.
He made him ruler over everything he owned.
22Joseph was in charge of teaching the princes.
He taught the elders how to think and live wisely.
23Then the rest of Jacob’s family went to Egypt.
The people of Israel lived as outsiders in the land of Ham.
24The Lord gave his people so many children
that there were too many of them for their enemies.
25He made the Egyptians hate his people.
The Egyptians made evil plans against them.
26The Lord sent his servant Moses to the king of Egypt.
He sent Aaron, his chosen one, along with him.
27The Lord gave them the power to do signs among the Egyptians.
They did his wonders in the land of Ham.
28The Lord sent darkness over the land.
He did it because the Egyptians had refused to obey his words.
29He turned their rivers and streams into blood.
He caused the fish in them to die.
30Their land was covered with frogs.
Frogs even went into the bedrooms of the rulers.
31The Lord spoke, and large numbers of flies came.
Gnats filled the whole country.
32He turned their rain into hail.
Lightning flashed all through their land.
33He destroyed their vines and fig trees.
He broke down the trees in Egypt.
34He spoke, and the locusts came.
There were so many of them they couldn’t be counted.
35They ate up every green thing in the land.
They ate up what the land produced.
36Then he killed the oldest son of every family in Egypt.
He struck down the oldest of all their sons.
37He brought the people of Israel out of Egypt.
The Egyptians loaded them down with silver and gold.
From among the tribes of Israel no one got tired or fell down.
38The Egyptians were glad when the people of Israel left.
They were terrified because of Israel.
39The Lord spread out a cloud to cover his people.
He gave them a fire to light up the night.
40They asked for meat, and he brought them quail.
He fed them well with manna, the bread of heaven.
41He broke open a rock, and streams of water poured out.
They flowed like a river in the desert.
42He remembered the holy promise
he had made to his servant Abraham.
43His chosen people shouted for joy
as he brought them out of Egypt.
44He gave them the lands of other nations.
He let them take over what others had worked for.
45He did it so they might obey his rules
and follow his laws.
Praise the Lord.
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