Psalm 105 The psalmist praises God for keeping his covenant with the patriarchs, for having delivered Israel from Egypt and led them through the wilderness to Canaan.

 Psalm 105

The psalmist praises God for keeping his covenant with the patriarchs, for having delivered Israel from Egypt and led them through the wilderness to Canaan.

1 Give thanks to the Lord, and call upon his name; make known his works among the peoples.

2 Sing to him, sing psalms to him; tell of all his wonders.

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

4 Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his face continually.

5 Remember his wonders that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments of his mouth,

6 O descendants of Abraham his servant, you children 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, to thousands of generations, 

9 the covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac, 

10 which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute, and to Israel as an everlasting covenant, 

11 saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan as the boundary of your inheritance." 

12 when they were still few in number, indeed very few, and strangers in it,

 13 when they wandered from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people, 

14 he allowed no one to oppress them; for their sake he rebuked kings, saying, 

15 "Do not touch my anointed ones, and do my prophets no harm." 

16 he called for a famine in the land; he made every plant of bread wither. 

17 He sent a man before them, and he was sold as a slave, even Joseph. 

18 He bound his feet with fetters and put him in irons. 

19 Until he fulfilled his word, the word of the Lord tested him. 

20 The king sent and released him; the ruler of the people released him. 

21 He made him lord of his house and ruler over all his possessions. 

22 To subdue his princes at his pleasure and to instruct his elders. 

23 Then Israel entered Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. 

24 And he multiplied his people greatly and made them stronger than their enemies.

 25 He turned their hearts to hate his people and to deal subtilly with his servants. 

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

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

28 He commanded darkness to darken it, and they did not rebel against his word. 

29 He turned the waters into blood, and so killed the fish. 

30 Their land produced frogs in abundance, even in the chambers of their kings. 

31 He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their territory. 

32 He turned their rain into hail, and blazing fire in their land. 

33 He struck their vineyards and their fig trees, and broke the trees in their territory. 

34 He spoke, and the locusts came, and the caterpillars without number. 

35 They ate up all the vegetation of their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground. 

36 He also struck down all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.

37 But he brought them out with silver and gold, and there was not one sick person among their tribes.

38 Egypt rejoiced when they went out, for the fear of them had fallen upon them.

39 He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give them light by night.

40 They prayed, and he brought quails and satisfied them with bread from heaven.

41 He split open the rock, and water gushed out; it ran down the dry lands like a river.

42 For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham his servant.

43 And he brought out his people from there with joy, his chosen ones with gladness.

44 And he gave them the lands of the nations, and they inherited the labor of the peoples. 

45 That they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise the Lord.