Psalm 104:1–106:1

Give glory to the Lord, and call upon his name: declare his deeds among the Gentiles.

²Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate all his wondrous works.

³Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.

⁴Seek ye the lord, and be strengthened: seek his face evermore.

⁵Remember his marvellous works which he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth.

⁶O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen.

⁷He is the Lord 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.

⁹Which he made to Abraham; and his oath to Isaac:

¹⁰And he appointed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting testament:

¹¹Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the lot of your inheritance.

¹²When they were but a small number: yea very few, and sojourners therein:

¹³And they passed from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people.

¹⁴He suffered no man to hurt them: and he reproved kings for their sakes.

¹⁵Touch ye not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.

¹⁶And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all the support of bread.

¹⁷He sent a man before them: Joseph, who was sold for a slave.

¹⁸They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul,

¹⁹Until his word came. The word of the Lord inflamed him.

²⁰The king sent, and he released him: the ruler of the people, and he set him at liberty.

²¹He made him master of his house, and ruler of all his possession.

²²That he might instruct his princes as himself, and teach his ancients wisdom.

²³And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Cham.

²⁴And he increased his people exceedingly: and strengthened them over their enemies.

²⁵He turned their heart to hate his people: and to deal deceitfully with his servants.

²⁶He sent Moses his servant: Aaron the man whom he had chosen.

²⁷He gave them power to shew them signs, and his wonders in the land of Cham.

²⁸He sent darkness, and made it obscure: and grieved not his words.

²⁹He turned their waters into blood, and destroyed their fish.

³⁰Their land brought forth frogs, in the inner chambers of their kings.

³¹He spoke, and there came divers sorts of flies and sciniphs in all their coasts.

³²He gave them hail for rain, a burning fire in the land.

³³And he destroyed their vineyards and their fig trees: and he broke in pieces the trees of their coasts.

³⁴He spoke, and the locust came, and the bruchus, of which there was no number.

³⁵And they devoured all the grass in their land, and consumed all the fruit of their ground.

³⁶And he slew all the firstborn in their land: the firstfruits of all their labour.

³⁷And he brought them out with silver and gold: and there was not among their tribes one that was feeble.

³⁸Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them lay upon them.

³⁹He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to give them light in the night.

⁴⁰They asked, and the quail came: and he filled them with the bread of heaven.

⁴¹He opened the rock, and waters flowed: rivers ran down in the dry land.

⁴²Because he remembered his holy word, which he had spoken to his servant Abraham.

⁴³And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness.

⁴⁴And he gave them the lands of the Gentiles: and they possessed the labours of the people:

⁴⁵That they might observe his justifications, and seek after his law.

Psalm 105

Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

²Who shall declare the powers of the Lord? who shall set forth all his praises?

³Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do justice at all times.

⁴Remember us, O Lord, in the favour of thy people: visit us with thy salvation.

⁵That we may see the good of thy chosen, that we may rejoice in the joy of thy nation: that thou mayst be praised with thy inheritance.

⁶We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity.

⁷Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up to the sea, even the Red Sea.

⁸And he saved them for his own name’s sake: that he might make his power known.

⁹And he rebuked the Red Sea and it was dried up: and he led them through the depths, as in a wilderness.

¹⁰And he saved them from the hand of them that hated them: and he redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹And the water covered them that afflicted them: there was not one of them left.

¹²And they believed his words: and they sang his praises.

¹³They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they waited not for his counsel.

¹⁴And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water.

¹⁵And he gave them their request: and sent fulness into their souls.

¹⁶And they provoked Moses in the camp, Aaron the holy one of the Lord.

¹⁷The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan: and covered the congregation of Abiron.

¹⁸And a fire was kindled in their congregation: the flame burned the wicked.

¹⁹They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven thing.

²⁰And they changed their glory into the likeness of a calf that eateth grass.

²¹They forgot God, who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt,

²²Wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red Sea.

²³And 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.

²⁴And they set at nought the desirable land. They believed not his word,

²⁵And they murmured in their tents: they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord.

²⁶And he lifted up his hand over them: to overthrow them in the desert;

²⁷And to cast down their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the countries.

²⁸They also were initiated to Beelpheor: and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

²⁹And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was multiplied among them.

³⁰Then Phinees stood up, and pacified him: and the slaughter ceased.

³¹And it was reputed to him unto justice, to generation and generation for evermore.

³²They provoked him also at the waters of contradiction: and Moses was afflicted for their sakes:

³³Because they exasperated his spirit. And he distinguished with his lips.

³⁴They did not destroy the nations of which the Lord spoke unto them.

³⁵And they were mingled among the heathens, and learned their works:

³⁶And served their idols, and it became a stumblingblock to them.

³⁷And they sacrificed their sons, and their daughters to devils.

³⁸And they shed innocent blood: the blood of their sons and of their daughters which they sacrificed to the idols of Chanaan. And the land was polluted with blood,

³⁹And was defiled with their works: and they went aside after their own inventions.

⁴⁰And the Lord was exceedingly angry with his people: and he abhorred his inheritance.

⁴¹And he delivered them into the hands of the nations: and they that hated them had dominion over them.

⁴²And their enemies afflicted them: and they were humbled under their hands:

⁴³Many times did he deliver them. But they provoked him with their counsel: and they were brought low by their iniquities.

⁴⁴And he saw when they were in tribulation: and he heard their prayer.

⁴⁵And he was mindful of his covenant: and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

⁴⁶And he gave them unto mercies, in the sight of all those that had made them captives.

⁴⁷Save us, O Lord, our God: and gather us from among the nations: That we may give thanks to thy holy name, and may glory in thy praise.

⁴⁸Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say: So be it, so be it.

Psalm 106

Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.