Psalms 105 / 150
- 1Give thanks to the LORD , call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done.
- 2Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts.
- 3Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.
- 4Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always.
- 5Remember the wonders he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced,
- 6O descendants of Abraham his servant, O sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.
- 7He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
- 8He remembers his covenant forever, the word he commanded, for a thousand generations,
- 9the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac.
- 10He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
- 11"To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion you will inherit."
- 12When they were but few in number, few indeed, and strangers in it,
- 13they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
- 14He allowed no one to oppress them; for their sake he rebuked kings:
- 15"Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm."
- 16He called down famine on the land and destroyed all their supplies of food;
- 17and he sent a man before them- Joseph, sold as a slave.
- 18They bruised his feet with shackles, his neck was put in irons,
- 19till what he foretold came to pass, till the word of the LORD proved him true.
- 20The king sent and released him, the ruler of peoples set him free.
- 21He made him master of his household, ruler over all he possessed,
- 22to instruct his princes as he pleased and teach his elders wisdom.
- 23Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob lived as an alien in the land of Ham.
- 24The LORD made his people very fruitful; he made them too numerous for their foes,
- 25whose hearts he turned to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.
- 26He sent Moses his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
- 27They performed his miraculous signs among them, his wonders in the land of Ham.
- 28He sent darkness and made the land dark- for had they not rebelled against his words?
- 29He turned their waters into blood, causing their fish to die.
- 30Their land teemed with frogs, which went up into the bedrooms of their rulers.
- 31He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats throughout their country.
- 32He turned their rain into hail, with lightning throughout their land;
- 33he struck down their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their country.
- 34He spoke, and the locusts came, grasshoppers without number;
- 35they ate up every green thing in their land, ate up the produce of their soil.
- 36Then he struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their manhood.
- 37He brought out Israel, laden with silver and gold, and from among their tribes no one faltered.
- 38Egypt was glad when they left, because dread of Israel had fallen on them.
- 39He spread out a cloud as a covering, and a fire to give light at night.
- 40They asked, and he brought them quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
- 41He opened the rock, and water gushed out; like a river it flowed in the desert.
- 42For he remembered his holy promise given to his servant Abraham.
- 43He brought out his people with rejoicing, his chosen ones with shouts of joy;
- 44he gave them the lands of the nations, and they fell heir to what others had toiled for-
- 45that they might keep his precepts and observe his laws. Praise the LORD .