Psalm 105

1 Give thanks to the Lord, call on his name;
make known among the nations what he has done.

2 Sing to him, sing praise to him;
tell of all his wonderful acts.

3 Glory in his holy name;
let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.

4 Look to the Lord and his strength;
seek his face always.

5 Remember the wonders he has done,
his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced,

6 O descendants of Abraham his servant,
O sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.

7 He is the Lord our God;
his judgments are in all the earth.

8 He remembers his covenant forever,
the word he commanded, for a thousand generations,

9 the covenant he made with Abraham,
the oath he swore to Isaac.

10 He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree,
to Israel as an everlasting covenant:

11 “To you I will give the land of Canaan
as the portion you will inherit.”

12 When they were but few in number,
few indeed, and strangers in it,

13 they wandered from nation to nation,
from one kingdom to another.

14 He allowed no one to oppress them;
for their sake he rebuked kings:

15 “Do not touch my anointed ones;
do my prophets no harm.”

16 He called down famine on the land
and destroyed all their supplies of food;

17 and he sent a man before them—
Joseph, sold as a slave.

18 They bruised his feet with shackles,
his neck was put in irons,

19 till what he foretold came to pass,
till the word of the Lord proved him true.

20 The king sent and released him,
the ruler of peoples set him free.

21 He made him master of his household,
ruler over all he possessed,

22 to instruct his princes as he pleased
and teach his elders wisdom.

23 Then Israel entered Egypt;
Jacob lived as an alien in the land of Ham.

24 The Lord made his people very fruitful;
he made them too numerous for their foes,

25 whose hearts he turned to hate his people,
to conspire against his servants.

26 He sent Moses his servant,
and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

27 They performed his miraculous signs among them,
his wonders in the land of Ham.

28 He sent darkness and made the land dark—
for had they not rebelled against his words?

29 He turned their waters into blood,
causing their fish to die.

30 Their land teemed with frogs,
which went up into the bedrooms of their rulers.

31 He spoke, and there came swarms of flies,
and gnats throughout their country.

32 He turned their rain into hail,
with lightning throughout their land;

33 he struck down their vines and fig trees
and shattered the trees of their country.

34 He spoke, and the locusts came,
grasshoppers without number;

35 they ate up every green thing in their land,
ate up the produce of their soil.

36 Then he struck down all the firstborn in their land,
the firstfruits of all their manhood.

37 He brought out Israel, laden with silver and gold,
and from among their tribes no one faltered.

38 Egypt was glad when they left,
because dread of Israel had fallen on them.

39 He spread out a cloud as a covering,
and a fire to give light at night.

40 They asked, and he brought them quail
and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

41 He opened the rock, and water gushed out;
like a river it flowed in the desert.

42 For he remembered his holy promise
given to his servant Abraham.

43 He brought out his people with rejoicing,
his chosen ones with shouts of joy;

44 he gave them the lands of the nations,
and they fell heir to what others had toiled for—

45 that they might keep his precepts
and observe his laws.

Praise the Lord.

PSALMS 105

The [Lord] Can Be Trusted

1  t Praise the [Lord]
and pray in his name!
Tell everyone
what he has done.

2 Sing praises to the [Lord]!
Tell about his miracles.

3 Celebrate and worship
his holy name
with all your heart.

4 Trust the [Lord]
and his mighty power.

5 Remember his miracles
and all his wonders
and his fair decisions.

6 You belong to the family
of Abraham, his servant;
you are his chosen ones,
the descendants of Jacob.

7 The [Lord] is our God,
bringing justice
everywhere on earth.

8 He will never forget
his agreement or his promises,
not in thousands of years.
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9 t God made an eternal promise

10  t to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,

11 when he said, “I'll give you
the land of Canaan.”

12 At the time there were
only a few of us,
and we were homeless.

13 We wandered from nation
to nation, from one country
to another.

14  t God did not let anyone
mistreat our people.
Instead he protected us
by punishing rulers

15 and telling them,
“Don't touch my chosen leaders
or harm my prophets!”

16  t God kept crops from growing
until food was scarce
everywhere in the land.

17  t But he had already sent Joseph,
sold as a slave into Egypt,

18  t with chains of iron
around his legs and neck.

19 Joseph remained a slave
until his own words
had come true,
and the [Lord] had finished
testing him.

20  t Then the king of Egypt
set Joseph free

21  t and put him in charge
of everything he owned.

22 Joseph was in command
of the officials,
and he taught the leaders
how to use wisdom.

23  t Jacob and his family
came and settled in Egypt
as foreigners.

24  t They were the [Lord]'s people,
so he let them grow stronger
than their enemies.

25 They served the [Lord],
and he made the Egyptians plan
hateful things against them.

26  t God sent his servant Moses.
He also chose and sent Aaron

27 to his people in Egypt,
and they worked miracles
and wonders there.

28  t Moses and Aaron obeyed God,
and he sent darkness
to cover Egypt.

29  t God turned their rivers
into streams of blood,
and the fish all died.

30  t Frogs were everywhere,
even in the royal palace.

31  t When God gave the command,
flies and gnats
swarmed all around.

32  t In place of rain,
God sent hailstones
and flashes of lightning.

33 He destroyed their grapevines
and their fig trees,
and he made splinters
of all the other trees.

34  t God gave the command,
and more grasshoppers came
than could be counted.

35 They ate every green plant
and all the crops that grew
in the land of Egypt.

36  t Then God took the life
of every first-born son.

37  t When God led Israel from Egypt,
they took silver and gold,
and no one was left behind.

38 The Egyptians were afraid
and gladly let them go.

39  t God hid them under a cloud
and guided them by fire
during the night.

40  t When they asked for food,
he sent more birds
than they could eat.

41  t God even split open a rock,
and streams of water
gushed into the desert.

42 God never forgot
his sacred promise
to his servant Abraham.

43 When the Lord rescued
his chosen people from Egypt,
they celebrated with songs.

44  t The Lord gave them the land
and everything else
the nations had worked for.

45 He did this so that his people
would obey all his laws.
Shout praises to the [Lord]!