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105:1  Thank the Lord! Make his name famous! Tell people in all the nations what he has done.
105:2  Sing songs and make music to praise him! Tell people about the miracles that he has done.
105:3  Boast about his holy name. Everybody who wants to worship the Lord should be very happy!
105:4  Ask the Lord to help you. Ask him to give you strength. Always try to be near him and worship him.
105:5  Remember the great things that he has done. Remember his miracles, and the commands that he has spoken.
105:6  Remember that you are descendants of God's servant, Abraham. You are Jacob's descendants, and God has chosen you to be his people.
105:7  He is the Lord, our God. He rules the whole earth with justice.
105:8  He will always remember the covenant that he made with us. He made that promise to continue for ever.
105:9  That is the promise that he made to Abraham, and that he also made to Isaac.
105:10  He repeated it to Jacob as a law. It was a covenant with Israel's people that would continue for ever.
105:11  He promised Jacob, ‘I will give to you the land of Canaan. It will belong to you, and to your descendants.’
105:12  At one time, God's people were only a few. They lived in Canaan as strangers.
105:13  They travelled among different nations and different kingdoms.
105:14  But the Lord did not let anyone hurt them. He punished kings to keep his people safe.
105:15  He said, ‘Do not even touch the people that I have chosen to be mine. Do not hurt my prophets.’
105:16  The Lord sent a famine to the land of Canaan, so that his people had no food left to eat.
105:17  But he sent Joseph to Egypt before they went there to get food. Joseph's brothers sold him as a slave.
105:18  In Egypt the chains on his feet hurt him. He had a heavy piece of iron round his neck.
105:19  He remained a slave until what he said would happen really happened. Then the Lord showed that Joseph was right.
105:20  The powerful king of Egypt sent someone to let Joseph go free out of prison.
105:21  The king made Joseph master of his palace. Joseph took care of everything that belonged to the king.
105:22  The king gave him authority over his officers. He could teach the king's leaders, so that they would know what to do.
105:23  Then Jacob's family came into Egypt. They lived as strangers in the land of Ham's descendants.
105:24  The Lord gave to his people many children. They became more powerful than their enemies.
105:25  So the Egyptians began to hate God's people. They did cruel things to the Lord's people.
105:26  The Lord sent his servant Moses to help his people in Egypt. He also chose Aaron to help them.
105:27  Moses and Aaron did many miracles in Egypt, where Ham's descendants lived. They showed the Lord's great power to the Egyptians.
105:28  God made all the land become dark. But the Egyptians did not obey God's command.
105:29  God caused their rivers to become blood, and he killed their fish.
105:30  Frogs covered all their land. They even went into the bedrooms of the palace!
105:31  The Lord commanded flies and gnats to cover the whole country.
105:32  He sent hail with the rain, and there was lightning everywhere.
105:33  He destroyed their vines and fig trees. He knocked down the trees everywhere in their country.
105:34  He commanded many locusts to come. There were too many locusts to count!
105:35  They ate all the plants in their land, and all the crops in their fields.
105:36  Then the Lord killed all the firstborn sons in Egypt. He killed the oldest son in each family.
105:37  So the Lord led his people out from Egypt. They took with them valuable silver and gold things. Nobody among the Israelite people was too weak to go.
105:38  The Egyptians were happy when they went, because they were afraid of the Israelites.
105:39  The Lord made a cloud to cover them and a fire to give them light at night.
105:40  When they asked him for food, he gave them quails to eat. He fed them with bread from the sky.
105:41  He broke a rock, so that water poured out from it. It ran as a river through the dry places.
105:42  Yes, the Lord remembered the holy promise that he had made to his servant, Abraham.
105:43  So he led his people out from Egypt, and they were very happy! They were the people that he had chosen for himself, and they shouted with joy!
105:44  The Lord gave to them the land of other nations. They enjoyed the good things that other people had worked to get.
105:45  Then God's people could obey his commands and his laws. Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!