Psalm 105
1 Give
thanks to the
LORD!
Call on his
name!
Make his doings
known among the
peoples.
2 Sing
to him, sing
praises to him!
Tell of all
his marvelous
works.
3 Glory
in his holy
name.
Let the heart
of those who seek
the LORD rejoice.
4 Seek
the LORD and
his strength.
Seek his
face forever more.
5 Remember
his marvelous
works that he
has done:
his wonders, and
the judgments of
his mouth,
6 you
offspring of Abraham,
his servant,
you children of
Jacob, his chosen
ones.
7 He
is the LORD,
our God.
His judgments are
in all the earth.
8 He
has remembered his
covenant forever,
the word which
he commanded to
a thousand generations,
9 the covenant
which he made with Abraham,
his oath to
Isaac,
10 and
confirmed it to
Jacob for a
statute;
to Israel for
an everlasting
covenant,
11 saying, “To
you I will
give the land
of Canaan,
the lot of
your inheritance,”
12 when they
were but a
few men in
number,
yes, very few,
and foreigners in
it.
13 They
went about from
nation to nation,
from one kingdom
to another people.
14 He allowed
no one to do
them wrong.
Yes, he reproved
kings for their
sakes,
15 “Don’t
touch my anointed
ones!
Do my prophets
no harm!”
16 He
called for a
famine on the land.
He destroyed the
food supplies.
17 He
sent a man
before them.
Joseph was sold
for a slave.
18 They bruised
his feet with
shackles.
His neck was locked
in irons,
19 until
the time that
his word happened,
and the LORD’s
word proved him
true.
20 The
king sent and freed
him,
even the ruler of
peoples, and let
him go free.
21 He
made him lord of
his house,
and ruler of
all of his
possessions,
22 to discipline his
princes at his
pleasure,
and to teach
his elders wisdom.
23 Israel
also came into
Egypt.
Jacob lived in
the land of Ham.
24 He
increased his
people greatly,
and made them
stronger than their
adversaries.
25 He
turned their heart
to hate his
people,
to conspire against
his servants.
26 He
sent Moses, his
servant,
and Aaron, whom he
had chosen.
27 They
performed miracles among
them,
and wonders in
the land of Ham.
28 He
sent darkness, and
made it dark.
They didn’t rebel
against his words.
29 He
turned their
waters into blood,
and killed their
fish.
30 Their land
swarmed with frogs,
even in the rooms
of their kings.
31 He spoke,
and swarms of
flies came,
and lice in
all their borders.
32 He
gave them hail
for rain,
with lightning in
their land.
33 He
struck their vines
and also their
fig trees,
and shattered the
trees of
their country.
34 He spoke,
and the
locusts came
with the grasshoppers, without
number.
35 They ate
up every plant
in their land,
and ate up the
fruit of
their ground.
36 He
struck also all
the firstborn in
their land,
the first fruits
of all
their manhood.
37 He
brought them out
with silver and
gold.
There was not one
feeble person among his
tribes.
38 Egypt
was glad when
they departed,
for the fear
of them had
fallen on them.
39 He spread
a cloud for
a covering,
fire to give light in
the night.
40 They asked,
and he brought
quails,
and satisfied
them with the
bread of the
sky.
41 He
opened the rock,
and waters gushed
out.
They ran as a
river in the
dry places.
42 For
he remembered his
holy word,
and Abraham, his
servant.
43 He
brought his people
out with joy,
his chosen with
singing.
44 He
gave them the lands
of the nations.
They took the
labor of the
peoples in
possession,
45 that they
might keep his
statutes,
and observe his
laws.
Praise the
LORD!