Psalm 105–106

Psalm 105

¹Oh give thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name;

Make known among the peoples his doings.

²Sing unto him, sing praises unto him;

Talk ye of all his marvellous works.

³Glory ye in his holy name:

Let the heart of them rejoice that seek Jehovah.

⁴Seek ye Jehovah and his strength;

Seek his face evermore.

⁵Remember his marvellous works that he hath done,

His wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,

⁶O ye seed of Abraham his servant,

Ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

⁷He is Jehovah our God:

His judgments are in all the earth.

⁸He hath remembered his covenant for ever,

The word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

⁹The covenant which he made with Abraham,

And his oath unto Isaac,

¹⁰And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute,

To Israel for an everlasting covenant,

¹¹Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan,

The lot of your inheritance;

¹²When they were but a few men in number,

Yea, very few, and sojourners in it.

¹³And they went about from nation to nation,

From one kingdom to another people.

¹⁴He suffered no man to do them wrong;

Yea, he reproved kings for their sakes,

¹⁵Saying, Touch not mine anointed ones,

And do my prophets no harm.

¹⁶And he called for a famine upon the land;

He brake the whole staff of bread.

¹⁷He sent a man before them;

Joseph was sold for a servant:

¹⁸His feet they hurt with fetters:

He was laid in chains of iron,

¹⁹Until the time that his word came to pass,

The word of Jehovah tried him.

²⁰The king sent and loosed him;

Even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

²¹He made him lord of his house,

And ruler of all his substance;

²²To bind his princes at his pleasure,

And teach his elders wisdom.

²³Israel also came into Egypt;

And Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

²⁴And he increased his people greatly,

And made them stronger than their adversaries.

²⁵He turned their heart to hate his people,

To deal subtly with his servants.

²⁶He sent Moses his servant,

And Aaron whom he had chosen.

²⁷They set among them his signs,

And wonders in the land of Ham.

²⁸He sent darkness, and made it dark;

And they rebelled not against his words.

²⁹He turned their waters into blood,

And slew their fish.

³⁰Their land swarmed with frogs

In the chambers of their kings.

³¹He spake, and there came swarms of flies,

And lice in all their borders.

³²He gave them hail for rain,

And flaming fire in their land.

³³He smote their vines also and their fig-trees,

And brake the trees of their borders.

³⁴He spake, and the locust came,

And the grasshopper, and that without number,

³⁵And did eat up every herb in their land,

And did eat up the fruit of their ground.

³⁶He smote also all the first-born in their land,

The chief of all their strength.

³⁷And he brought them forth with silver and gold;

And there was not one feeble person among his tribes.

³⁸Egypt was glad when they departed;

For the fear of them had fallen upon them.

³⁹He spread a cloud for a covering,

And fire to give light in the night.

⁴⁰They asked, and he brought quails,

And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

⁴¹He opened the rock, and waters gushed out;

They ran in the dry places like a river.

⁴²For he remembered his holy word,

And Abraham his servant.

⁴³And he brought forth his people with joy,

And his chosen with singing.

⁴⁴And he gave them the lands of the nations;

And they took the labor of the peoples in possession:

⁴⁵That they might keep his statutes,

And observe his laws.

Praise ye Jehovah.

Psalm 106

¹Praise ye Jehovah.

Oh give thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good;

For his lovingkindness endureth for ever.

²Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah,

Or show forth all his praise?

³Blessed are they that keep justice,

And he that doeth righteousness at all times.

⁴Remember me, O Jehovah, with the favor that thou bearest unto thy people;

Oh visit me with thy salvation,

⁵That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen,

That I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation,

That I may glory with thine inheritance.

⁶We have sinned with our fathers,

We have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

⁷Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt;

They remembered not the multitude of thy lovingkindnesses,

But were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

⁸Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake,

That he might make his mighty power to be known.

⁹He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up:

So he led them through the depths, as through a wilderness.

¹⁰And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them,

And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹And the waters covered their adversaries;

There was not one of them left.

¹²Then believed they his words;

They sang his praise.

¹³They soon forgat his works;

They waited not for his counsel,

¹⁴But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,

And tempted God in the desert.

¹⁵And he gave them their request,

But sent leanness into their soul.

¹⁶They envied Moses also in the camp,

And Aaron the saint of Jehovah.

¹⁷The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,

And covered the company of Abiram.

¹⁸And a fire was kindled in their company;

The flame burned up the wicked.

¹⁹They made a calf in Horeb,

And worshipped a molten image.

²⁰Thus they changed their glory

For the likeness of an ox that eateth grass.

²¹They forgat God their Saviour,

Who had done great things in Egypt,

²²Wondrous works in the land of Ham,

And terrible things by the Red Sea.

²³Therefore he said that he would destroy them,

Had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach,

To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

²⁴Yea, they despised the pleasant land,

They believed not his word,

²⁵But murmured in their tents,

And hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah.

²⁶Therefore he sware unto them,

That he would overthrow them in the wilderness,

²⁷And that he would overthrow their seed among the nations,

And scatter them in the lands.

²⁸They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor,

And ate the sacrifices of the dead.

²⁹Thus they provoked him to anger with their doings;

And the plague brake in upon them.

³⁰Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment;

And so the plague was stayed.

³¹And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness,

Unto all generations for evermore.

³²They angered him also at the waters of Meribah,

So that it went ill with Moses for their sakes;

³³Because they were rebellious against his spirit,

And he spake unadvisedly with his lips.

³⁴They did not destroy the peoples,

As Jehovah commanded them,

³⁵But mingled themselves with the nations,

And learned their works,

³⁶And served their idols,

Which became a snare unto them.

³⁷Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,

³⁸And shed innocent blood,

Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters,

Whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan;

And the land was polluted with blood.

³⁹Thus were they defiled with their works,

And played the harlot in their doings.

⁴⁰Therefore was the wrath of Jehovah kindled against his people,

And he abhorred his inheritance.

⁴¹And he gave them into the hand of the nations;

And they that hated them ruled over them.

⁴²Their enemies also oppressed them,

And they were brought into subjection under their hand.

⁴³Many times did he deliver them;

But they were rebellious in their counsel,

And were brought low in their iniquity.

⁴⁴Nevertheless he regarded their distress,

When he heard their cry:

⁴⁵And he remembered for them his covenant,

And repented according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

⁴⁶He made them also to be pitied

Of all those that carried them captive.

⁴⁷Save us, O Jehovah our God,

And gather us from among the nations,

To give thanks unto thy holy name,

And to triumph in thy praise.

⁴⁸Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel,

From everlasting even to everlasting.

And let all the people say, Amen.

Praise ye Jehovah.