PSALM 105

    ¹Acclaim the LORD, call out His name,

          make His deeds known among the peoples.

    ²Sing to Him, hymn to Him,

          speak of all His wonders.

    ³Revel in His holy name.

          Let the heart of the LORD’s seekers rejoice.

    ⁴Inquire of the LORD and His strength,

          seek His presence always.

    ⁵Recall the wonders that He did,

          His portents and the judgments He issued,

    ⁶O seed of Abraham His servant,

          sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.

    ⁷He is the LORD our God—

          through all the earth, His judgments.

    ⁸He recalls His pact forever—

          the word He ordained for a thousand generations—

    ⁹which He sealed with Abraham,

          and His vow to Isaac,

    ¹⁰and He set it for Jacob as a statute,

          for Israel an eternal pact,

    ¹¹saying,

          “To you will I give the land of Canaan

              as the plot of your estate,”

    ¹²when they were a handful of men,

          but a few, and sojourners there.

    ¹³And they went about from nation to nation,

          from one kingdom to another people.

    ¹⁴He allowed no man to oppress them

          and warned kings on their account:

    ¹⁵“Touch not My anointed ones,

          and to My prophets do no harm.”

    ¹⁶And He called forth famine over the land,

          every staff of bread He broke.

    ¹⁷He sent a man before them—

          as a slave was Joseph sold.

    ¹⁸They tortured his legs with shackles,

          his neck was put in iron,

    ¹⁹until the time of his word had come,

          the LORD’s utterance that purged him.

    ²⁰The king sent and loosed his shackles,

          the ruler of peoples set him free,

    ²¹made him master of his house

          and ruler of all his possessions,

    ²²to admonish his princes as he desired

          and to teach wisdom to his elders.

    ²³And Israel came to Egypt,

          Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

    ²⁴And He made His people very fruitful,

          made them more numerous than their foes.

    ²⁵He changed their heart to hate His people,

          to lay plots against His servants.

    ²⁶He sent Moses his servant,

          Aaron, whom He had chosen.

    ²⁷They set among them the words of His signs,

          His portents in the land of Ham.

    ²⁸He sent darkness, and it grew dark,

          yet they did not keep His word.

    ²⁹He turned their waters to blood

          and made their fish die.

    ³⁰Their land swarmed with frogs,

          into the chambers of their kings.

    ³¹He spoke, and the swarm did come,

          lice in all their region.

    ³²He turned their rains into hail,

          tongues of fire in their land.

    ³³And He struck their vines and their fig trees

          and shattered the trees of their region.

    ³⁴He spoke, and the locust came,

          grasshoppers without number.

    ³⁵And they ate all the grass in their land

          they ate up the fruit of their soil.

    ³⁶And He struck down each firstborn in their land,

          the first yield of all their manhood.

    ³⁷And He brought them out with silver and gold,

          and none in His tribes did falter.

    ³⁸Egypt rejoiced when they went out,

          for their fear had fallen upon them.

    ³⁹He spread a cloud as a curtain

          and fire to light up the night.

    ⁴⁰They asked, and He brought the quail,

          and with bread from the heavens He sated them.

    ⁴¹He opened the rock, and water flowed,

          it went forth in parched land as a stream.

    ⁴²For He recalled His holy word

          with Abraham His servant.

    ⁴³And He brought out His people in joy,

          in glad song His chosen ones.

    ⁴⁴And He gave them the lands of nations,

          they took hold of the wealth of peoples,

    ⁴⁵so that they should keep His statutes,

          and His teachings they should observe.

              Hallelujah!