105:1   Give thanks to the LORD, proclaim his greatness; tell the nations what he has done.

105:2   Sing praise to the LORD; tell the wonderful things he has done.

105:3   Be glad that we belong to him; let all who worship him rejoice.

105:4   Go to the LORD for help; and worship him continually.

105:5   You descendants of Abraham, his servant; you descendants of Jacob, the man he chose: remember the miracles that God performed and the judgments that he gave.

105:6   (SEE 105:5)

105:7   The LORD is our God; his commands are for all the world.

105:8   He will keep his covenant forever, his promises for a thousand generations.

105:9   He will keep the agreement he made with Abraham and his promise to Isaac.

105:10   The LORD made a covenant with Jacob, one that will last forever.

105:11   "I will give you the land of Canaan," he said. "It will be your own possession."

105:12   God's people were few in number, strangers in the land of Canaan.

105:13   They wandered from country to country, from one kingdom to another.

105:14   But God let no one oppress them; to protect them, he warned the kings:

105:15   "Don't harm my chosen servants; do not touch my prophets."

105:16   The LORD sent famine to their country and took away all their food.

105:17   But he sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who had been sold as a slave.

105:18   His feet were kept in chains, and an iron collar was around his neck,

105:19   until what he had predicted came true. The word of the LORD proved him right.

105:20   Then the king of Egypt had him released; the ruler of nations set him free.

105:21   He put him in charge of his government and made him ruler over all the land,

105:22   with power over the king's officials and authority to instruct his advisers.

105:23   Then Jacob went to Egypt and settled in that country.

105:24   The LORD gave many children to his people and made them stronger than their enemies.

105:25   He made the Egyptians hate his people and treat his servants with deceit.

105:26   Then he sent his servant Moses, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

105:27   They did God's mighty acts and performed miracles in Egypt.

105:28   God sent darkness on the country, but the Egyptians did not obey his command.

105:29   He turned their rivers into blood and killed all their fish.

105:30   Their country was overrun with frogs; even the palace was filled with them.

105:31   God commanded, and flies and gnats swarmed throughout the whole country.

105:32   He sent hail and lightning on their land instead of rain;

105:33   he destroyed their grapevines and fig trees and broke down all the trees.

105:34   He commanded, and the locusts came, countless millions of them;

105:35   they ate all the plants in the land; they ate all the crops.

105:36   He killed the first-born sons of all the families of Egypt.

105:37   Then he led the Israelites out; they carried silver and gold, and all of them were healthy and strong.

105:38   The Egyptians were afraid of them and were glad when they left.

105:39   God put a cloud over his people and a fire at night to give them light.

105:40   They asked, and he sent quails; he gave them food from heaven to satisfy them.

105:41   He opened a rock, and water gushed out, flowing through the desert like a river.

105:42   He remembered his sacred promise to Abraham his servant.

105:43   So he led his chosen people out, and they sang and shouted for joy.

105:44   He gave them the lands of other peoples and let them take over their fields,

105:45   so that his people would obey his laws and keep all his commands. Praise the LORD!