Psalms 105

¹Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

²Who shall declare the powers of the Lord? who shall set forth all his praises?

³Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do justice at all times.

⁴Remember us, O Lord, in the favour of thy people: visit us with thy salvation.

⁵That we may see the good of thy chosen, that we may rejoice in the joy of thy nation: that thou mayst be praised with thy inheritance.

⁶We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity.

⁷Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up to the sea, even the Red Sea.

⁸And he saved them for his own name's sake: that he might make his power known.

⁹And he rebuked the Red Sea and it was dried up: and he led them through the depths, as in a wilderness.

¹⁰And he saved them from the hand of them that hated them: and he redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹And the water covered them that afflicted them: there was not one of them left.

¹²And they believed his words: and they sang his praises.

¹³They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they waited not for his counsel.

¹⁴And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water.

¹⁵And he gave them their request: and sent fulness into their souls.

¹⁶And they provoked Moses in the camp, Aaron the holy one of the Lord.

¹⁷The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan: and covered the congregation of Abiron.

¹⁸And a fire was kindled in their congregation: the flame burned the wicked.

¹⁹They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven thing.

²⁰And they changed their glory into the likeness of a calf that eateth grass.

²¹They forgot God, who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt,

²²Wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red Sea.

²³And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

²⁴And they set at nought the desirable land. They believed not his word,

²⁵And they murmured in their tents: they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord.

²⁶And he lifted up his hand over them: to overthrow them in the desert;

²⁷And to cast down their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the countries.

²⁸They also were initiated to Beelphegor: and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

²⁹And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was multiplied among them.

³⁰Then Phinees stood up, and pacified him: and the slaughter ceased.

³¹And it was reputed to him unto justice, to generation and generation for evermore.

³²They provoked him also at the waters of contradiction: and Moses was afflicted for their sakes:

³³Because they exasperated his spirit. And he distinguished with his lips.

³⁴They did not destroy the nations of which the Lord spoke unto them.

³⁵And they were mingled among the heathens, and learned their works:

³⁶And served their idols, and it became a stumblingblock to them.

³⁷And they sacrificed their sons, and their daughters to devils.

³⁸And they shed innocent blood: the blood of their sons and of their daughters which they sacrificed to the idols of Chanaan. And the land was polluted with blood,

³⁹And was defiled with their works: and they went aside after their own inventions.

⁴⁰And the Lord was exceedingly angry with his people: and he abhorred his inheritance.

⁴¹And he delivered them into the hands of the nations: and they that hated them had dominion over them.

⁴²And their enemies afflicted them: and they were humbled under their hands:

⁴³Many times did he deliver them. But they provoked him with their counsel: and they were brought low by their iniquities.

⁴⁴And he saw when they were in tribulation: and he heard their prayer.

⁴⁵And he was mindful of his covenant: and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

⁴⁶And he gave them unto mercies, in the sight of all those that had made them captives.

⁴⁷Save us, O Lord, our God: and gather us from among the nations: That we may give thanks to thy holy name, and may glory in thy praise.

⁴⁸Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say: So be it, so be it.

Psalms 105

¹O give thanks unto the Lord; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people.

²Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works.

³Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.

⁴Seek the Lord, and his strength: seek his face evermore.

⁵Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;

⁶O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.

⁷He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.

⁸He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.

⁹Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;

¹⁰And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:

¹¹Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:

¹²When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.

¹³When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;

¹⁴He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;

¹⁵Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

¹⁶Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.

¹⁷He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:

¹⁸Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:

¹⁹Until the time that his word came: the word of the Lord tried him.

²⁰The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.

²¹He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:

²²To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.

²³Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

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

²⁵He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.

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

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

²⁸He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.

²⁹He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.

³⁰Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings.

³¹He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts.

³²He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.

³³He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts.

³⁴He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,

³⁵And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.

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

³⁷He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.

³⁸Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.

³⁹He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.

⁴⁰The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

⁴¹He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.

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

⁴³And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness:

⁴⁴And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;

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