Psalms 105:1-45
105 Give thanks to Jehovah,+ call on his name,Make his deeds known among the peoples!+
2 Sing to him, sing praises* to him,Ponder over* all his wonderful works.+
3 Boast about his holy name.+
Let the hearts of those seeking Jehovah rejoice.+
4 Search for Jehovah+ and his strength.
Seek his face* constantly.
5 Remember the wonderful works he has performed,His miracles and the judgments he has pronounced,+
6 You offspring* of Abraham his servant,+You sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.+
7 He is Jehovah our God.+
His judgments are throughout the earth.+
8 He remembers his covenant forever,+The promise he made,* to a thousand generations,+
9 The covenant he made with Abraham,+And the oath he swore to Isaac,+
10 Which he established as a decree to JacobAnd as a lasting covenant to Israel,
11 Saying, “I will give you the land of Caʹnaan+As your allotted inheritance.”+
12 This was when they were few in number,+Yes, very few, and they were foreigners in the land.+
13 They walked about from nation to nation,From one kingdom to another people.+
14 He did not allow any man to oppress them,+But on their account he reproved kings,+
15 Saying, “Do not touch my anointed ones,And to my prophets do nothing bad.”+
16 He called down a famine on the land;+He cut off their supply of bread.*
17 He sent ahead of them a manWho was sold to be a slave, Joseph.+
18 With fetters they bound* his feet,+His neck was put in irons;*
19 Until the time that his word proved true,+The saying of Jehovah is what refined him.
20 The king sent to release him,+The ruler of the peoples set him free.
21 He made him master of his household,Ruler over all his property,+
22 To have authority over* his princes as he pleased*And to teach his elders wisdom.+
23 Then Israel came into Egypt,+And Jacob lived as a foreigner in the land of Ham.
24 God made his people very fruitful;+He made them mightier than their adversaries,+
25 Whose hearts he let change to hate his people,To plot against his servants.+
26 He sent his servant Moses,+And Aaron,+ whom he had chosen.
27 They performed his signs among them,His miracles in the land of Ham.+
28 He sent darkness and the land became dark;+They did not rebel against his words.
29 He changed their waters into bloodAnd killed their fish.+
30 Their land swarmed with frogs,+Even in the royal chambers.
31 He ordered the gadflies to invadeAnd gnats in all their territories.+
32 He turned their rain to hailAnd sent lightning* on their land.+
33 He struck their vines and their fig treesAnd shattered the trees of their territory.
34 He said that the locusts should invade,Young locusts without number.+
35 They devoured all the vegetation in the land,And they devoured the produce of the ground.
36 Then he struck down every firstborn in their land,+The beginning of their procreative power.
37 He brought his people out with silver and gold;+And no one among his tribes stumbled.
38 Egypt rejoiced when they left,For the dread of Israel* had fallen on them.+
39 He spread a cloud to screen them off+
And fire to give light by night.+
40 They asked, and he brought quail;+He kept satisfying them with bread from heaven.+
41 He opened a rock, and waters flowed out;+These flowed through the desert like a river.+
42 For he remembered the holy promise he had made to Abraham his servant.+
43 So he brought out his people with exultation,+His chosen ones with a joyful cry.
44 He gave them the lands of nations;+They inherited what other peoples had worked hard to produce,+
45 So that they would keep his decrees+And observe his laws.
Praise Jah!*
Footnotes
^ Or possibly, “Speak about.”
^ Or “make music.”
^ Or “presence.”
^ Or “descendants.” Lit., “seed.”
^ Lit., “The word he commanded.”
^ Lit., “broke every bread rod.” Possibly referring to rods used for storing bread.
^ Lit., “afflicted.”
^ Or “His soul came into iron.”
^ Lit., “To bind.”
^ Or “agreeably to his soul.”
^ Or “flames of fire.”
^ Lit., “them.”
^ Or “Hallelujah!” “Jah” is a shortened form of the name Jehovah.
