Psalm 105:17–43

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.