105:1 O GIVE thanks unto the Lord, call upon His name, make known His doings among the peoples! |
105:2 Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; meditate on {and} talk of all His marvelous deeds {and} devoutly praise them. |
105:3 Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those rejoice who seek {and} require the Lord [as their indispensable necessity]. |
105:4 Seek, inquire of {and} for the Lord, {and} crave Him and His strength (His might and inflexibility to temptation); seek {and} require His face {and} His presence [continually] evermore. |
105:5 [Earnestly] remember the marvelous deeds that He has done, His miracles {and} wonders, the judgments {and} sentences which He pronounced [upon His enemies, as in Egypt]. |
105:6 O you offspring of Abraham His servant, you children of Jacob, His chosen ones, |
105:7 He is the Lord our God; His judgments are in all the earth. |
105:8 He is [earnestly] mindful of His covenant {and} forever it is imprinted on His heart, the word which He commanded {and} established to a thousand generations, |
105:9 The covenant which He made with Abraham, and His sworn promise to Isaac, |
105:10 Which He confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant, |
105:11 Saying, Unto you will I give the land of Canaan as your measured portion, possession, {and} inheritance. |
105:12 When they were but a few men in number, in fact, very few, and were temporary residents {and} strangers in it, |
105:13 When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people, |
105:14 He allowed no man to do them wrong; in fact, He reproved kings for their sakes, |
105:15 Saying, Touch not My anointed, and do My prophets no harm. |
105:16 Moreover, 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, even Joseph, who was sold as a servant. |
105:18 His feet they hurt with fetters; he was laid in chains of iron {and} his soul entered into the iron, |
105:19 Until his word [to his cruel brothers] came true, until the word of the Lord tried {and} tested him. |
105:20 The king sent and loosed him, even the ruler of the peoples, and let him go free. |
105:21 He made Joseph lord of his house and ruler of all his substance, |
105:22 To bind his princes at his pleasure and teach his elders wisdom. |
105:23 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. |
105:24 There [the Lord] greatly increased His people and made them stronger than their oppressors. |
105:25 He turned the hearts [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 showed His signs among them, wonders {and} miracles in the land of Ham (Egypt). |
105:28 He sent [thick] darkness and made the land dark, and they [God's two servants] rebelled not against His word. |
105:29 He turned [Egypt's] waters into blood and caused their fish to die. |
105:30 Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, even in the chambers of their kings. |
105:31 He spoke, and there came swarms of beetles {and} flies and mosquitoes {and} lice in all their borders. |
105:32 He gave them hail for rain, with lightning like flaming fire in their land. |
105:33 He smote their vines also and their fig trees and broke the [ice-laden] trees of their borders. |
105:34 He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, and that without number, |
105:35 And ate up all the vegetation in their land and devoured the fruit of their ground. |
105:36 He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the beginning {and} chief substance of all their strength. |
105:37 He brought [Israel] forth also with silver and gold, and there was not one feeble person among their tribes. |
105:38 Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen upon the people. |
105:39 The Lord spread a cloud for a covering [by day], and a fire to give light in the night. |
105:40 [The Israelites] asked, and He brought quails and satisfied them with the bread of heaven. |
105:41 He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it ran in the dry places like a river. |
105:42 For He [earnestly] remembered His holy word {and} promise to Abraham His servant. |
105:43 And He brought forth His people with joy, and His chosen ones with gladness {and} singing, |
105:44 And gave them the lands of the nations [of Canaan], and they reaped the fruits of those peoples' labor, |
105:45 That they might observe His statutes and keep His laws [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying them]. Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!) |