Psalm 105

PSALM 105

The Lord’s Wonderful Works in Behalf of Israel.

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

^cMake known His deeds among the peoples.

²Sing to Him, ^asing praises to Him;

^1bSpeak of all His ²wonders.

³¹Glory in His holy name;

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

⁴Seek the Lord and ^aHis strength;

^bSeek His face continually.

⁵Remember His ^1awonders which He has done,

His marvels and the ^bjudgments ²uttered by His mouth,

⁶O seed of ^aAbraham, His servant,

O sons of ^bJacob, His ^cchosen ones!

⁷He is the Lord our God;

His ^ajudgments are in all the earth.

⁸He has ^aremembered His covenant forever,

The word which He commanded to a ^bthousand generations,

⁹The ^acovenant which He made 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,

Very few, and ^bstrangers 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 do My prophets no harm.”

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 the Lord ^1btested him.

²⁰The ^aking sent and released him,

The ruler of peoples, and set him free.

²¹He ^amade him lord of his house

And ruler over all his possessions,

²²To ¹imprison his princes ^2aat will,

That he might teach his elders wisdom.

^23aIsrael also came into Egypt;

Thus Jacob ^bsojourned in the land of Ham.

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

And made them stronger than their adversaries.

²⁵He ^aturned their heart to hate His people,

To ^bdeal craftily with His servants.

²⁶He ^asent Moses His servant,

And ^bAaron, whom He had chosen.

²⁷They ^1aperformed His wondrous acts 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 ^astruck down their vines also and their fig trees,

And shattered the trees of their territory.

³⁴He spoke, and ^alocusts came,

And young locusts, even without number,

³⁵And ate up all vegetation in their land,

And ate up the fruit of their ground.

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

The ^bfirst fruits of all their vigor.

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

And among His tribes there was not one who stumbled.

³⁸Egypt was ^aglad when they departed,

For the ^bdread of them had fallen upon them.

³⁹He spread a ^acloud for a ¹covering,

And ^bfire to illumine by night.

⁴⁰¹They ^aasked, and He brought ^bquail,

And 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 forth His people with joy,

His chosen ones with a joyful ^ashout.

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 ²the Lord!