Psalm 105:1-45
105 GIVE thanks to Jehovah, call upon his name,+Make known among the peoples his dealings.+
2 Sing to him, make melody to him,+Concern yourselves with all his wonderful works.+
3 Make YOUR boast in his holy name.+Let the heart of those seeking Jehovah rejoice.+
4 Search for Jehovah and his strength.+Seek his face constantly.+
5 Remember his wonderful works that he has performed,+His miracles and the judicial decisions of his mouth,+
6 O YOU seed of Abraham his servant,+YOU sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.+
7 He is Jehovah our God.+His judicial decisions are in all the earth.+
8 He has remembered his covenant even to time indefinite,+The word that he commanded, to a thousand generations,+
9 Which [covenant] he concluded* with Abraham,+And his sworn statement to Isaac,+
10 And which [statement]* he kept standing as a regulation even to Jacob,As an indefinitely lasting covenant even to Israel,+
11 Saying: “To you I shall give the land of Caʹnaan+As the allotment of YOUR inheritance.”+
12 [This was] when they* happened to be few in number,+Yes, very few, and alien residents in it.+
13 And they kept walking about from nation to nation,+From one kingdom to another people.+
14 He did not allow any human* to defraud them,+But on their account he reproved kings,+
15 [Saying:] “Do not YOU men touch my anointed ones,*+And to my prophets do nothing bad.”+
16 And he proceeded to call for a famine upon the land;+He broke every rod around which ring-shaped loaves were suspended.*+
17 He sent ahead of them a man*Who was sold to be a slave, Joseph.+
18 With fetters they afflicted his feet,+Into irons his soul came;+
19 Until the time that his word* came,+The saying* of Jehovah itself refined him.+
20 The king sent that he might release him,+The ruler of the peoples, that he might let him loose.
21 He set him as master to his household+And as ruler over all his property,+
22 To bind his princes agreeably to his soul*+And that he might teach wisdom to even his elderly men.+
23 And Israel proceeded to come into Egypt,+And Jacob himself resided as an alien in the land of Ham.+
24 And he kept making his people very fruitful,+And gradually made them mightier than their adversaries.+
25 He let their heart change to hate his people,+To behave cunningly against his servants.+
26 He sent Moses his servant,+Aaron whom he had chosen.+
27 They* set among them the matters of his signs,+And the miracles in the land of Ham.+
28 He sent darkness and so made it dark;+And they did not rebel against his words.+
29 He changed their waters into blood,+And proceeded to put their fish to death.+
30 Their land swarmed with frogs,+In the interior rooms of their kings.
31 He said that the gadflies should come in,+Gnats in all their territories.+
32 He made their downpours hail,+A flaming fire on their land.+
33 And he proceeded to strike their vines and their fig treesAnd to break the trees of their territory.+
34 He said that the locusts should come in,+And a species of locust,* even without number.+
35 And they went eating all the vegetation in their land;+They also went eating the fruitage of their ground.
36 And he proceeded to strike down every firstborn in their land,+The beginning of all their generative power.+
37 And he began to bring them out with silver and gold;+And among his tribes there was no one stumbling along.
38 Egypt rejoiced when they went out,For the dread of them had fallen upon them.+
39 He spread out a cloud for a screen,+And fire to give light by night.+
40 They* asked, and he proceeded to bring quails,+And with bread from heaven he kept satisfying them.+
41 He opened a rock, and waters began to flow out;+These went through the waterless regions as a river.+
42 For he remembered his holy word* with Abraham his servant.+
43 So he brought out his people with exultation,+His chosen ones even with a joyful cry.+
44 And gradually he gave them the lands of the nations,+And they kept taking possession of the product of the hard work of national groups,+
45 To the end that they might keep his regulations+And observe his own laws.+Praise Jah, YOU people!+
Footnotes
^ Lit., “cut.”
^ “Which [statement].” Heb., ha, a pronominal suffix to the fem. verb, referring to the fem. expression “sworn statement” in vs 9.
^ Or, “earthling man.” Heb., ʼa·dhamʹ.
^ “My anointed ones.” Heb., vim·shi·chaiʹ, pl.; Gr., khri·stonʹ; Syr., lam·shi·chai, pl.; Lat., chriʹstos.
^ Lit., “every rod of bread.”
^ “Man.” Heb., ʼish.
^ “His word.” Or, “the word of One.” Heb., dheva·rohʹ.
^ “The saying of.” Heb., ʼim·rathʹ.
^ “Agreeably to his soul.” Lit., “in (by) his soul.” Heb., benaph·shohʹ.
^ “They,” MT; LXXSyVg, “He.”
^ “They,” TLXXSyVg; M, “He,” collectively.
^ Or, “promise.” Compare vs 8.
