Psalm 105

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Remember His Wondrous Deeds

Oh give thanks to Yahweh, call upon His name;

Make known His acts among the peoples.

Sing to Him, sing praises to Him;

Muse on all His wondrous deeds.

Boast in His holy name;

Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh be glad.

Inquire of Yahweh and His strength;

Seek His face continually.

Remember His wondrous deeds which He has done,

His miracles and the judgments uttered by His mouth,

O seed of Abraham, His servant,

O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!

He is Yahweh our God;

His judgments are in all the earth.

He has remembered His covenant forever,

The word which He commanded for a thousand generations,

Which He cut with Abraham,

And His oath to Isaac.

Then He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,

To Israel as an everlasting covenant,

Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan

As the portion of your inheritance,”

When they were only a few men in number,

Of little account, and sojourners in it.

And they wandered about from nation to nation,

From one kingdom to another people.

He permitted no man to oppress them,

And He reproved kings for their sakes:

“Do not touch My anointed ones,

And to My prophets do no evil.”

And He called for a famine upon the land;

He broke the whole staff of bread.

He sent a man before them,

Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

They afflicted his feet with fetters,

He himself was laid in irons;

Until the time that his word came to pass,

The word of Yahweh refined him.

The king sent and released him,

The ruler of peoples sent and set him free.

He set him up as lord of his house

And ruler over all his possessions,

To imprison his princes at will,

And that he might teach his elders wisdom.

Then Israel came to Egypt;

And Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

And He caused His people to be very fruitful,

And He caused them to be stronger than their adversaries.

He turned their heart to hate His people,

To deal craftily with His slaves.

He sent Moses His servant,

And Aaron, whom He had chosen.

They set forth the words of His signs among them,

And miracles in the land of Ham.

He sent darkness and made it dark;

And they did not rebel against His words.

He turned their waters into blood

And caused their fish to die.

Their land swarmed with frogs

Even in the chambers of their kings.

He spoke, and there came a swarm of flies

And gnats in all their territory.

He gave them hail for rain,

And flaming fire in their land.

He also struck down their vines and their fig trees,

And He shattered the trees of their territory.

He spoke, and locusts came,

And creeping locusts, without number,

And they ate up all vegetation in their land,

And they ate up the fruit of their ground.

He also struck down all the firstborn in their land,

The first of all their vigor.

Then He brought them out with silver and gold,

And there was none among His tribes who stumbled.

Egypt was glad when they went out,

For the dread of them had fallen upon them.

He spread a cloud for a covering,

And fire to give light by night.

They asked, and He brought quail,

And He satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

He opened the rock and water flowed out;

It ran in the dry places like a river.

For He remembered His holy word

With Abraham His servant;

And He brought His people out with joy,

His chosen ones with a shout of joy.

He gave them also the lands of the nations,

That they might take possession of the fruit of the peoples’ labor,

So that they might keep His statutes

And observe His laws,

Praise Yah!

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