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105:1  Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name, and make his deeds known among the people.
105:2  Sing to him! Praise him! Declare all his awesome deeds!
105:3  Exult in his holy name; let all those who seek the LORD rejoice!
105:4  Seek the LORD and his strength; seek his face continually.
105:5  Remember his awesome deeds that he has done, his wonders and the judgments he declared.
105:6  You descendants of Abraham, his servant, You children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
105:7  He is the LORD our God; his judgments extend to the entire earth.
105:8  He remembers his eternal covenant— every promise he made for a thousand generations,
105:9  like the covenant he made with Abraham, and his promise to Isaac.
105:10  He presented it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant.
105:11  He said: "I will give Canaan to you as the allotted portion that is your inheritance."
105:12  When the Hebrews were few in number—so very few— and were sojourners in it,
105:13  they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
105:14  He did not allow anyone to oppress them, or any kings to reprove them.
105:15  "Don't touch my anointed or hurt my prophets!"
105:16  He declared a famine on the land; destroying the entire food supply.
105:17  He sent a man before them— Joseph, who had been sold as a slave.
105:18  They bound his feet with fetters and placed an iron collar on his neck,
105:19  until the time his prediction came true, as the word of the LORD refined him.
105:20  He sent a king who released him, a ruler of people who set him free.
105:21  He made him the master over his household, the manager of all his possessions—
105:22  to discipline his rulers at will and make his elders wise.
105:23  Then Israel came to Egypt; indeed, Jacob lived in the land of Ham.
105:24  He caused his people to multiply greatly; and be more numerous than their enemies.
105:25  He caused them to hate his people and to deceive his servants.
105:26  He sent his servant Moses, along with Aaron, whom he had chosen.
105:27  They performed his signs among them, his wonders in the land of Ham.
105:28  He sent darkness, and it became dark. Did they not rebel against his words?
105:29  He turned their water into blood, so that the fish died.
105:30  Their land swarmed with frogs even to the chambers of their kings.
105:31  He spoke, and a swarm of insects invaded their land.
105:32  He sent hail instead of rain, and lightning throughout their land.
105:33  It destroyed their vines and their figs, breaking trees throughout their country.
105:34  Then he commanded the locust to come— grasshoppers without number.
105:35  They consumed every green plant in their land, and devoured the fruit of their soil.
105:36  He struck down every firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their progeny.
105:37  Then he brought Israel out with silver and gold, and no one among his tribes stumbled.
105:38  The Egyptians rejoiced when they left, because fear of Israel descended on them.
105:39  He spread out a cloud for a cover, and fire for light at night.
105:40  Israel asked, and quail came; food from heaven satisfied them.
105:41  He opened a rock, and water gushed out flowing like a river in the desert.
105:42  Indeed, he remembered his sacred promise to his servant Abraham.
105:43  He led his people out with gladness, his chosen ones with shouts of joy.
105:44  He gave to them the land of nations; they inherited the labor of other people
105:45  so they might keep his statutes and observe his laws. Hallelujah!