Psalm 105–106

PSALM 105

Remember His Wondrous Deeds

¹Oh ^agive thanks to Yahweh, ^bcall upon His name;

^cMake known His acts among the peoples.

²Sing to Him, ^asing praises to Him;

^bMuse on all His wondrous deeds.

³Boast in His holy name;

Let the ^aheart of those who seek Yahweh be glad.

⁴Inquire of Yahweh and ^aHis strength;

^bSeek His face continually.

⁵Remember His ^awondrous deeds which He has done,

His miracles and the ^bjudgments ¹uttered by His mouth,

⁶O seed of ^aAbraham, His servant,

O sons of ^bJacob, His ^cchosen ones!

⁷He is Yahweh our God;

His ^ajudgments are in all the earth.

⁸He has ^aremembered His covenant forever,

The word which He commanded for a ^bthousand generations,

^9aWhich He cut with Abraham,

And His ^boath to Isaac.

¹⁰Then He ^aconfirmed it to Jacob for a statute,

To Israel as an everlasting covenant,

¹¹Saying, “^aTo you I will give the land of Canaan

As the ^1bportion of your inheritance,”

¹²When they were only a ^afew men in number,

Of little account, and ^bsojourners in it.

¹³And they wandered about from nation to nation,

From one kingdom to another people.

¹⁴He ^apermitted no man to oppress them,

And He ^breproved kings for their sakes:

¹⁵“^aDo not touch My anointed ones,

And to My prophets do no evil.”

¹⁶And He ^acalled for a famine upon the land;

He ^bbroke the whole staff of bread.

¹⁷He ^asent a man before them,

Joseph, who was ^bsold as a slave.

¹⁸They afflicted his ^afeet with fetters,

¹He himself was laid in irons;

¹⁹Until the time that his ^aword came to pass,

The word of Yahweh ^brefined him.

²⁰The ^aking sent and released him,

The ruler of peoples sent and set him free.

²¹He ^aset him up as lord of his house

And ruler over all his possessions,

²²To ¹imprison his princes ^2aat will,

And that he might teach his elders wisdom.

^23aThen Israel came to Egypt;

And Jacob ^bsojourned in the land of Ham.

²⁴And He ^acaused His people to be very fruitful,

And He caused them to be stronger than their adversaries.

²⁵He ^aturned their heart to hate His people,

To ^bdeal craftily with His slaves.

²⁶He ^asent Moses His servant,

And ^bAaron, whom He had chosen.

²⁷They ^aset forth the words of His signs among them,

And miracles in the land of Ham.

²⁸He ^asent darkness and made it dark;

And they did not ^brebel against His words.

²⁹He ^aturned their waters into blood

And caused their fish to die.

³⁰Their land swarmed with ^afrogs

Even in the ^bchambers of their kings.

³¹He spoke, and there came a ^aswarm of flies

And ^bgnats in all their territory.

³²He ¹gave them ^ahail for rain,

And flaming fire in their land.

³³He also ^astruck down their vines and their fig trees,

And He shattered the trees of their territory.

³⁴He spoke, and ^alocusts came,

And creeping locusts, without number,

³⁵And ¹they ate up all vegetation in their land,

And ²they ate up the fruit of their ground.

³⁶He also ^astruck down all the firstborn in their land,

The ^bfirst of all their vigor.

³⁷Then He brought them out with ^asilver and gold,

And there was none among His tribes who stumbled.

³⁸Egypt was ^aglad when they went out,

For the ^bdread of them had fallen upon them.

³⁹He spread a ^acloud for a ¹covering,

And ^bfire to give light by night.

⁴⁰¹They ^aasked, and He brought ^bquail,

And He satisfied them with the ^2cbread of heaven.

⁴¹He opened the ¹rock and ^awater flowed out;

²It ran in the dry places like a river.

⁴²For He ^aremembered His holy word

With Abraham His servant;

⁴³And He brought His people out with joy,

His chosen ones with a shout of ^ajoy.

⁴⁴He ^agave them also the lands of the ¹nations,

That they ^bmight take possession of the fruit of the peoples’ labor,

⁴⁵So that they might ^akeep His statutes

And observe His laws,

¹Praise Yah!

PSALM 106

Remember Me, O Yahweh

¹¹Praise Yah!

Oh ^agive thanks to Yahweh, for He ^bis good;

For ^cHis lovingkindness endures forever.

²Who can speak of the ^amighty deeds of Yahweh,

Or can make all His praise to be heard?

³How blessed are those who keep ¹justice,

²And he who ^adoes righteousness at all times!

⁴Remember me, O Yahweh, in Your ^afavor ¹toward Your people;

Visit me with Your salvation,

⁵That I may see the ^agoodness of Your chosen ones,

That I may ^brejoice in the gladness of Your nation,

That I may ^cboast with Your ¹inheritance.

^6aWe have sinned ^bwith our fathers,

We have committed iniquity, we have acted wickedly.

⁷Our fathers in Egypt did not consider Your wondrous deeds;

They ^adid not remember Your abundant lovingkindnesses,

But they ^brebelled by the sea, at the ¹Red Sea.

⁸Yet He saved them ^afor the sake of His name,

That He might ^bmake His might known.

⁹Thus He ^arebuked the ¹Red Sea and it ^bdried up,

And He ^cled them through the deeps, as through the wilderness.

¹⁰So He ^asaved them from the ¹hand of the one who hated them,

And ^bredeemed them from the ²hand of the enemy.

^11aThe waters covered their adversaries;

Not one of them was left.

¹²Then they ^abelieved His words;

They ^bsang His praise.

¹³They quickly ^aforgot His works;

They ^bdid not wait for His counsel,

¹⁴But ^acraved intensely in the wilderness,

And ^bput God to the test in the wasteland.

¹⁵So He ^agave them their request,

But ^bsent a ¹wasting disease against their lives.

¹⁶Then they became ^aenvious of Moses in the camp,

And of Aaron, the holy one of Yahweh,

¹⁷The ^aearth opened and swallowed up Dathan,

And covered up the ¹company of Abiram.

¹⁸And a ^afire burned up in their company;

The flame consumed the wicked.

¹⁹They ^amade a calf in Horeb

And worshiped a molten image.

²⁰Thus they ^aexchanged their glory

For the image of an ox that eats grass.

²¹They ^aforgot God their Savior,

Who had done ^bgreat things in Egypt,

^22aWondrous deeds in the land of Ham

And awesome things by the ¹Red Sea.

²³Therefore ^aHe said that He would destroy them,

Had not ^bMoses His chosen one stood in the breach before Him,

To turn away His wrath from ¹eradicating them.

²⁴Then they ^adespised the ^bpleasant land;

They ^cdid not believe in His word,

²⁵But ^agrumbled in their tents;

They did not listen to the voice of Yahweh.

²⁶So He ^1aswore to them

To make them fall in the wilderness,

²⁷And to ^amake their seed fall among the nations

And to ^bscatter them in the lands.

²⁸They then ^ajoined themselves to ¹Baal-peor,

And ate ^bsacrifices offered to the dead.

²⁹Thus they ^aprovoked Him to anger with their actions,

And the plague broke out among them.

³⁰Then Phinehas ^astood up and interceded,

And so the ^bplague was checked.

³¹And it was ^acounted to him for righteousness,

From generation to generation forever.

³²They also ^aprovoked Him to wrath at the waters of ¹Meribah,

So that it ^bwent badly with Moses on their account;

³³Because they ^awere rebellious against ¹His Spirit,

He spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴They ^adid not destroy the peoples,

As ^bYahweh commanded them,

³⁵But ^athey mingled with the nations

And learned their works,

³⁶And ^aserved their idols,

^bWhich became a snare to them.

³⁷They ^asacrificed their sons and their daughters to the ^bdemons,

³⁸And they shed ^ainnocent blood,

The blood of their ^bsons and their daughters,

Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;

And the land was ^cpolluted with the blood.

³⁹Thus they became ^aunclean in their works,

And ^bplayed the harlot in their actions.

⁴⁰So the ^aanger of Yahweh was kindled against His people

And He ^babhorred His ^1cinheritance.

⁴¹Then ^aHe gave them into the hand of the ¹nations,

And those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴²Their enemies ^aoppressed them,

And they were subdued under their hand.

⁴³Many times He would ^adeliver them;

But they were rebellious in their ^bcounsel,

And so they ^csank down in their iniquity.

⁴⁴Nevertheless He looked upon their distress

When He ^aheard their cry of lamentation;

⁴⁵And He ^aremembered for them His covenant,

And ^1brelented ^caccording to the abundance of His lovingkindness.

⁴⁶He also made them ^aobjects of compassion

In the presence of all their captors.

^47aSave us, O Yahweh our God,

And ^bgather us from among the nations,

To give thanks to Your holy name

And ^crevel in Your praise.

^48aBlessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,

From everlasting to everlasting.

And let all the people say, “Amen.”

¹Praise Yah!