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105:1  O give thanks to the Lord, call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the people.
105:2  Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; Speak of all His wonderful acts and devoutly praise them.
105:3  Glory in His holy name; Let the hearts of those who seek and require the Lord [as their most essential need] rejoice.
105:4  Seek and deeply long for the Lord and His strength [His power, His might]; Seek and deeply long for His face and His presence continually.
105:5  Remember [with awe and gratitude] the wonderful things which He has done, His amazing deeds and the judgments uttered by His mouth [on His enemies, as in Egypt],
105:6  O you offspring of Abraham, His servant, O you sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!
105:7  He is the Lord our God; His judgments are in all the earth.
105:8  He has remembered His covenant forever, The word which He commanded and established to a thousand generations,
105:9  The covenant which He made with Abraham, And His sworn oath to Isaac,
105:10  Which He confirmed to Jacob as a statute, To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
105:11  Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan As the measured portion of your inheritance.”
105:12  When there were only a few men in number, Very few [in fact], and strangers in it;
105:13  And they wandered from one nation to another, From one kingdom to another people,
105:14  He allowed no man to oppress them; He rebuked kings for their sakes, saying,
105:15  “Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm.”
105:16  And He called for a famine upon the land [of Egypt]; He cut off every source of bread.
105:17  He sent a man before them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
105:18  His feet they hurt with shackles; He was put in chains of iron,
105:19  Until the time that his word [of prophecy regarding his brothers] came true, The word of the Lord tested and refined him.
105:20  The king sent and released him, The ruler of the peoples [of Egypt], and set him free.
105:21  He made Joseph lord of his house And ruler of all his possessions,
105:22  To imprison his princes at his will, That he might teach his elders wisdom.
105:23  Israel also came into Egypt; Thus Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
105:24  There the Lord greatly increased [the number of] His people, And made them more powerful than their enemies.
105:25  He turned the heart [of the Egyptians] to hate His people, To deal craftily with His servants.
105:26  He sent Moses His servant, And Aaron, whom He had chosen.
105:27  They exhibited His wondrous signs among them, Great miracles in the land of Ham (Egypt).
105:28  He sent [thick, oppressive] darkness and made the land dark; And Moses and Aaron did not rebel against His words.
105:29  He turned Egypt’s waters into blood And caused their fish to die.
105:30  Their land swarmed with frogs, Even in the chambers of their kings.
105:31  He spoke, and there came swarms of flies And gnats in all their territory.
105:32  He gave them hail for rain, With flaming fire in their land.
105:33  He struck their vines also and their fig trees, And shattered the [ice-laden] trees of their territory.
105:34  He spoke, and the [migratory] locusts came, And the young locusts, even without number,
105:35  And ate up all the vegetation in their land, And devoured the fruit of their ground.
105:36  He also struck down all the firstborn in their land, The first fruits and chief substance of all their strength.
105:37  He brought the sons of Israel out [of Egypt] with silver and gold, And among their tribes there was not one who stumbled.
105:38  Egypt was glad when they departed, For the dread and fear of them had fallen on the Egyptians.
105:39  The Lord spread a cloud as a covering [by day], And a fire to illumine the night.
105:40  The Israelites asked, and He brought quail, And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
105:41  He opened the rock and water flowed out; It ran in the dry places like a river.
105:42  For He remembered His holy word To Abraham His servant;
105:43  He brought out His people with joy, And His chosen ones with a joyful shout,
105:44  He gave them the lands of the nations [of Canaan], So that they would possess the fruits of those peoples’ labor,
105:45  So that they might observe His precepts And keep His laws [obediently accepting and honoring and valuing them]. Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)