105:1   Praise the LORD and pray in his name! Tell everyone what he has done.

105:2   Sing praises to the LORD! Tell about his miracles.

105:3   Celebrate and worship his holy name with all your heart.

105:4   Trust the LORD and his mighty power.

105:5   Remember his miracles and all his wonders and his fair decisions.

105:6   You belong to the family of Abraham, his servant; you are his chosen ones, the descendants of Jacob.

105:7   The LORD is our God, bringing justice everywhere on earth.

105:8   He will never forget his agreement or his promises, not in thousands of years. *

105:9   God made an eternal promise

105:10   to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,

105:11   when he said, "I'll give you the land of Canaan."

105:12   At the time there were only a few of us, and we were homeless.

105:13   We wandered from nation to nation, from one country to another.

105:14   God did not let anyone mistreat our people. Instead he protected us by punishing rulers

105:15   and telling them, "Don't touch my chosen leaders or harm my prophets!"

105:16   God kept crops from growing until food was scarce everywhere in the land.

105:17   But he had already sent Joseph, sold as a slave into Egypt,

105:18   with chains of iron around his legs and neck.

105:19   Joseph remained a slave until his own words had come true, and the LORD had finished testing him.

105:20   Then the king of Egypt set Joseph free

105:21   and put him in charge of everything he owned.

105:22   Joseph was in command of the officials, and he taught the leaders how to use wisdom.

105:23   Jacob and his family came and settled in Egypt as foreigners.

105:24   They were the LORD's people, so he let them grow stronger than their enemies.

105:25   They served the LORD, and he made the Egyptians plan hateful things against them.

105:26   God sent his servant Moses. He also chose and sent Aaron

105:27   to his people in Egypt, and they worked miracles and wonders there.

105:28   Moses and Aaron obeyed God, and he sent darkness to cover Egypt.

105:29   God turned their rivers into streams of blood, and the fish all died.

105:30   Frogs were everywhere, even in the royal palace.

105:31   When God gave the command, flies and gnats swarmed all around.

105:32   In place of rain, God sent hailstones and flashes of lightning.

105:33   He destroyed their grapevines and their fig trees, and he made splinters of all the other trees.

105:34   God gave the command, and more grasshoppers came than could be counted.

105:35   They ate every green plant and all the crops that grew in the land of Egypt.

105:36   Then God took the life of every first-born son.

105:37   When God led Israel from Egypt, they took silver and gold, and no one was left behind.

105:38   The Egyptians were afraid and gladly let them go.

105:39   God hid them under a cloud and guided them by fire during the night.

105:40   When they asked for food, he sent more birds than they could eat.

105:41   God even split open a rock, and streams of water gushed into the desert.

105:42   God never forgot his sacred promise to his servant Abraham.

105:43   When the Lord rescued his chosen people from Egypt, they celebrated with songs.

105:44   The Lord gave them the land and everything else the nations had worked for.

105:45   He did this so that his people would obey all of his laws. Shout praises to the LORD!