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105:1  Give thanks to the Lord, invoke his name; proclaim his deeds among the peoples.
105:2  Offer him honor with songs of praise; recount all his marvelous deeds.
105:3  Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord exult.
105:4  Reflect on the Lord and his strength; seek his face continually.
105:5  Remember the marvels he has wrought, his portents, and the judgments he has set forth.
105:6  You are the offspring of his servant Abraham, the children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
105:7  He is the Lord, our God; his judgments prevail all over the earth.
105:8  He is mindful of his covenant forever, the promise he laid down for a thousand generations,
105:9  the covenant he made with Abraham and the oath he swore to Isaac.
105:10  He established it as a decree for Jacob, and as an everlasting covenant for Israel,
105:11  saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your heritage.”
105:12  When they were few in number, an insignificant group of strangers in it,
105:13  they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
105:14  He permitted no one to oppress them, and in their regard he warned kings:
105:15  “Do not touch my anointed ones; do no harm to my prophets.”
105:16  Then he invoked a famine on the land and destroyed their supply of bread.
105:17  But he had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who had been sold as a slave.
105:18  They shackled his feet with fetters and clamped an iron collar around his neck,
105:19  until what he had prophesied was fulfilled and the word of the Lord proved him true.
105:20  The king ordered that he be released; the ruler of the peoples set him free.
105:21  He appointed him as master of his household and as ruler of all his possessions.
105:22  He was to instruct his princes as he deemed fit and to impart wisdom to his elders.
105:23  Then Israel went down into Egypt; Jacob lived as an alien in the land of Ham.
105:24  God greatly increased the number of his people and made them too strong for their foes,
105:25  whose hearts he then turned to hate his people and to conspire against his servants.
105:26  He sent his servant Moses, and Aaron whom he had chosen.
105:27  They performed his signs among them and worked wonders in the land of Ham.
105:28  He sent darkness that enveloped the land, but they rebelled against his warnings.
105:29  He turned their waters into blood, and all their fish were destroyed.
105:30  Their land was saturated with frogs, even in the royal chambers.
105:31  At his command there came hordes of flies and gnats throughout their country.
105:32  He sent them hail instead of rain, and flashes of lightning in all their land.
105:33  He struck down their vines and their fig trees and demolished the trees of their country.
105:34  At his word the locusts came, as well as grasshoppers beyond all count.
105:35  They gobbled up every green plant in the land and devoured the produce of the soil.
105:36  He struck down all the firstborn of the land, the firstfruits of their manhood.
105:37  Then he led out his people with silver and gold, and there was not one among their tribes who stumbled.
105:38  Egypt was glad when they departed, for dread of Israel had overwhelmed them.
105:39  He spread a cloud over his people as a cover and a fire to give light by night.
105:40  At their request he supplied them with quail, and he filled them with bread from heaven.
105:41  He split open a rock and water gushed forth, flowing through the wilderness like a river.
105:42  For he remembered the sacred promise that he had made to Abraham, his servant.
105:43  He led forth his people with rejoicing, his chosen ones with exultation.
105:44  He gave them the lands of the nations, and they inherited the fruit of other people’s toil,
105:45  so that they might keep his decrees and observe his laws. Alleluia.