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105:1  Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done.
105:2  Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts.
105:3  Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.
105:4  Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always.
105:5  Remember the wonders he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced,
105:6  you his servants, the descendants of Abraham, his chosen ones, the children of Jacob.
105:7  He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
105:8  He remembers his covenant for ever, the promise he made, for a thousand generations,
105:9  the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac.
105:10  He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
105:11  ‘To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion you will inherit.’
105:12  When they were but few in number, few indeed, and strangers in it,
105:13  they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
105:14  He allowed no one to oppress them; for their sake he rebuked kings:
105:15  ‘Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm.’
105:16  He called down famine on the land and destroyed all their supplies of food;
105:17  and he sent a man before them – Joseph, sold as a slave.
105:18  They bruised his feet with shackles, his neck was put in irons,
105:19  till what he foretold came to pass, till the word of the Lord proved him true.
105:20  The king sent and released him, the ruler of peoples set him free.
105:21  He made him master of his household, ruler over all he possessed,
105:22  to instruct his princes as he pleased and teach his elders wisdom.
105:23  Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob resided as a foreigner in the land of Ham.
105:24  The Lord made his people very fruitful; he made them too numerous for their foes,
105:25  whose hearts he turned to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.
105:26  He sent Moses his servant, and 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 made the land dark – for had they not rebelled against his words?
105:29  He turned their waters into blood, causing their fish to die.
105:30  Their land teemed with frogs, which went up into the bedrooms of their rulers.
105:31  He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats throughout their country.
105:32  He turned their rain into hail, with lightning throughout their land;
105:33  he struck down their vines and fig-trees and shattered the trees of their country.
105:34  He spoke, and the locusts came, grasshoppers without number;
105:35  they ate up every green thing in their land, ate up the produce of their soil.
105:36  Then he struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their manhood.
105:37  He brought out Israel, laden with silver and gold, and from among their tribes no one faltered.
105:38  Egypt was glad when they left, because dread of Israel had fallen on them.
105:39  He spread out a cloud as a covering, and a fire to give light at night.
105:40  They asked, and he brought them quail; he fed them well with the bread of heaven.
105:41  He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.
105:42  For he remembered his holy promise given to his servant Abraham.
105:43  He brought out his people with rejoicing, his chosen ones with shouts of joy;
105:44  he gave them the lands of the nations, and they fell heir to what others had toiled for –
105:45  that they might keep his precepts and observe his laws. Praise the Lord.