[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. you descendants of Jacob, the man he chose: remember the miracles that God performed and the judgments that he gave.
[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!