Psalm 105–106

Praise to Yahweh for His Work on Behalf of Israel

105Give thanks to Yahweh; proclaim his name;

make known his deeds among the peoples.

²Sing to him; sing praises concerning him;

tell of all his wonderful works.

³Boast about his holy name.

Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.

⁴Make supplication to Yahweh and his might;

seek his face continually.

⁵Remember his wonders that he has done,

his signs and the judgments of his mouth,

⁶O offspring of Abraham his servant,

you descendants^a of Jacob, his chosen ones.

⁷He is Yahweh our God;

his judgments are in all the earth.

⁸He remembers his covenant forever,

the word that he commanded

for a thousand generations,

⁹that he made with Abraham,

and by his oath swore to Isaac.

¹⁰He then confirmed it to Jacob as a statute,

to Israel as an everlasting covenant,

¹¹saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan

as the allotment that is your^b inheritance.”

¹²When they were few in number^c—

a trifle—and were sojourners in it,

¹³and they wandered about among the nations,^d

from one kingdom to another people,

¹⁴he allowed no one to oppress them,

and he rebuked kings on account of them,

¹⁵“Do not touch my anointed ones,

nor harm my prophets.”

¹⁶Then he called for a famine upon the land;

he broke every supply^e of bread.

¹⁷He sent a man on ahead of them;

Joseph was sold as a slave.

¹⁸They clamped^f his feet in fetters.^g

His neck^h went into irons.ⁱ

¹⁹Until the time his word came about,

the word of Yahweh tested^j him.

²⁰The king sent and he freed him;

the ruler of the peoples sent and let him loose.

²¹He made him lord of his house

and ruler of all his possessions,

²²to obligate^k his officials as he saw fit^l

and teach his elders wisdom.

²³Then Israel came to Egypt,

and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Ham.

²⁴And he^m made his people very fruitful.

He also made themⁿ stronger than their^o enemies.

²⁵He turned their heart to hate his people,

to deal deceitfully against his servants.

²⁶He sent his servant Moses,

together with Aaron whom he had chosen.

²⁷They set before them the words concerning his signs

and portents in the land of Ham.

²⁸He sent darkness and made it dark,

and they did not rebel against his words.

²⁹He turned their waters into blood

and it killed their fish.

³⁰Their land swarmed with frogs,

even in the chambers of their kings.

³¹He spoke, and there came flies

and gnats throughout all their territory.^p

³²He gave hail for their rains

and the fire of lightning in their land.

³³And he struck their vines and fig trees,

and shattered the trees of their territory.

³⁴He spoke and there came locusts

and young locusts without number.

³⁵And they ate up all the vegetation in their land,

and they ate up the fruit of their ground.

³⁶And he struck down all the firstborn in their land,

the first of all their virility.

³⁷Then he brought them out with silver and gold,

and there was none among his tribes who stumbled.

³⁸Egypt was glad when they departed,

because the fear of them^q had fallen upon them.

³⁹He spread out a cloud for a covering,

and fire to give light at night.

⁴⁰They^r asked, and he brought quail,

and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

⁴¹He opened the rock and waters flowed;

they coursed^s through the dry places like a river.

⁴²For he remembered his holy promise;^t

he remembered Abraham his servant.

⁴³And so he brought out his people with joy,

his chosen ones with rejoicing.

⁴⁴And he gave to them the lands of the nations,

and they inherited the labor of the peoples,

⁴⁵so that they might observe his statutes,

and keep his laws.

Praise Yah.^u

Praise to Yahweh for His Faithfulness in Israel’s History

106Praise Yah.^a Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,

for his loyal love is forever.

²Who can utter the mighty deeds of Yahweh,

or proclaim all his praise?

³Blessed are those who observe justice,

he who does righteousness at all times.

⁴Remember me, O Yahweh, when you show favor to your people.

Look after me when you deliver,

⁵that I may see the good done your chosen ones,

to be glad in the joy of your nation,

to glory together with your inheritance.

⁶We have sinned along with our ancestors.^b

We have committed iniquity; we have incurred guilt.

⁷Our ancestors^c in Egypt did not understand your wonderful works.

They did not remember your many acts of loyal love,

and so they rebelled by the sea at the Red Sea.^d

⁸Yet he saved them for the sake of his name,

to make known his might.

⁹So he rebuked the Red Sea,^e and it dried up,

and he led them through the deep as through a desert.

¹⁰Thus he saved them from the hand of the hater

and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹But waters covered their adversaries;

not one of them survived.

¹²Then they believed his words;

they sang his praise.

¹³They quickly forgot his works;

they did not wait for his counsel.

¹⁴And they craved intensely^f in the wilderness,

and tested God in the desert.

¹⁵So he gave to them their request,

but he sent leanness into their souls.^g

¹⁶And they were jealous of Moses in the camp,

and of Aaron, the holy one of Yahweh.

¹⁷The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,

and it covered over the gang of Abiram.

¹⁸Also fire burned in their assembly;

the flame devoured the wicked.

¹⁹They made a calf at Horeb

and bowed down to a cast image.

²⁰And so they exchanged their glory

for an image of an ox that eats grass.

²¹They forgot God their Savior,

who had done great things in Egypt,

²²wonders in the land of Ham,

awesome deeds by the Red Sea.^h

²³So he said he would exterminate them,

had not Moses, his chosen one,

stood in the breach before him,

to reverse his wrath from destroying them.

²⁴Then they refused the desirable land;

they did not believe his word,

²⁵but grumbled in their tents.

They did not obey the voice of Yahweh.

²⁶So he made an oathⁱ against them,

to make them drop in the wilderness,

²⁷and to disperse^j their descendants^k among the nations

and to scatter them among the lands.

²⁸They also attached themselves to Baal of Peor,

and they ate sacrifices offered to the dead.^l

²⁹Thus they provoked to anger by their deeds,

and a plague broke out among them.

³⁰Then Phinehas stood up and intervened,

and so the plague was stopped,

³¹and it was reckoned to him as righteousness

throughout all generations.^m

³²They also angered God at the waters of Meribah,

and it went badly for Moses on account of them,

³³because they rebelled against his Spirit,ⁿ

and he spoke thoughtlessly with his lips.

³⁴They did not exterminate the peoples,

as Yahweh had commanded them, ^o

³⁵but they mingled with the nations

and learned their works,

³⁶and served their idols,

which became^p a snare to them.

³⁷They even sacrificed their sons and daughters

to the demons,

³⁸and they poured out innocent blood,

the blood of their sons and daughters,

whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,

and so the land was defiled with the blood.^q

³⁹And they became unclean by their works,

and were unfaithful in their deeds.

⁴⁰So Yahweh’s anger burned against his people,

and he abhorred his inheritance.

⁴¹Then he gave them into the hand of the nations,

and those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴²And their enemies oppressed them,

and they were subdued under their hand.

⁴³Many times he delivered them,

but they rebelled in their counsel,

and were brought low by their iniquity.

⁴⁴Yet he looked upon their distress

when he heard their cry.

⁴⁵And he remembered his covenant with them,

and relented based on the abundance of his loyal love.

⁴⁶And he let them find compassion^r

before all their captors.

⁴⁷Save us, O Yahweh our God,

and gather us from the nations,

so that we may give thanks to your holy name

and boast in your praise.

⁴⁸Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel,

from everlasting and to everlasting.

And let all the people say, “Amen!”

Praise Yah.^s