Psalm 105:27–45

²⁷They performed miraculous signs among the Egyptians,

and wonders in the land of Ham.

²⁸The Lord blanketed Egypt in darkness,

for they had defied his commands to let his people go.

²⁹He turned their water into blood,

poisoning all the fish.

³⁰Then frogs overran the land

and even invaded the king’s bedrooms.

³¹When the Lord spoke, flies descended on the Egyptians,

and gnats swarmed across Egypt.

³²He sent them hail instead of rain,

and lightning flashed over the land.

³³He ruined their grapevines and fig trees

and shattered all the trees.

³⁴He spoke, and hordes of locusts came—

young locusts beyond number.

³⁵They ate up everything green in the land,

destroying all the crops in their fields.

³⁶Then he killed the oldest son in each Egyptian home,

the pride and joy of each family.

³⁷The Lord brought his people out of Egypt, loaded with silver and gold;

and not one among the tribes of Israel even stumbled.

³⁸Egypt was glad when they were gone,

for they feared them greatly.

³⁹The Lord spread a cloud above them as a covering

and gave them a great fire to light the darkness.

⁴⁰They asked for meat, and he sent them quail;

he satisfied their hunger with manna—bread from heaven.

⁴¹He split open a rock, and water gushed out

to form a river through the dry wasteland.

⁴²For he remembered his sacred promise

to his servant Abraham.

⁴³So he brought his people out of Egypt with joy,

his chosen ones with rejoicing.

⁴⁴He gave his people the lands of pagan nations,

and they harvested crops that others had planted.

⁴⁵All this happened so they would follow his decrees

and obey his instructions.

Praise the Lord!