Psalms - Chapter 105 | Good News Translation

  • 1. Give thanks to the LORD, proclaim his greatness; tell the nations what he has done.
  • 2. Sing praise to the LORD; tell the wonderful things he has done.
  • 3. Be glad that we belong to him; let all who worship him rejoice.
  • 4. Go to the LORD for help; and worship him continually.
  • 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.
  • 6. {cf15I (SEE 105:5)}
  • 7. The LORD is our God; his commands are for all the world.
  • 8. He will keep his covenant forever, his promises for a thousand generations.
  • 9. He will keep the agreement he made with Abraham and his promise to Isaac.
  • 10. The LORD made a covenant with Jacob, one that will last forever.
  • 11. "I will give you the land of Canaan," he said. "It will be your own possession."
  • 12. God's people were few in number, strangers in the land of Canaan.
  • 13. They wandered from country to country, from one kingdom to another.
  • 14. But God let no one oppress them; to protect them, he warned the kings:
  • 15. "Don't harm my chosen servants; do not touch my prophets."
  • 16. The LORD sent famine to their country and took away all their food.
  • 17. But he sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who had been sold as a slave.
  • 18. His feet were kept in chains, and an iron collar was around his neck,
  • 19. until what he had predicted came true. The word of the LORD proved him right.
  • 20. Then the king of Egypt had him released; the ruler of nations set him free.
  • 21. He put him in charge of his government and made him ruler over all the land,
  • 22. with power over the king's officials and authority to instruct his advisers.
  • 23. Then Jacob went to Egypt and settled in that country.
  • 24. The LORD gave many children to his people and made them stronger than their enemies.
  • 25. He made the Egyptians hate his people and treat his servants with deceit.
  • 26. Then he sent his servant Moses, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
  • 27. They did God's mighty acts and performed miracles in Egypt.
  • 28. God sent darkness on the country, but the Egyptians did not obey his command.
  • 29. He turned their rivers into blood and killed all their fish.
  • 30. Their country was overrun with frogs; even the palace was filled with them.
  • 31. God commanded, and flies and gnats swarmed throughout the whole country.
  • 32. He sent hail and lightning on their land instead of rain;
  • 33. he destroyed their grapevines and fig trees and broke down all the trees.
  • 34. He commanded, and the locusts came, countless millions of them;
  • 35. they ate all the plants in the land; they ate all the crops.
  • 36. He killed the first-born sons of all the families of Egypt.
  • 37. Then he led the Israelites out; they carried silver and gold, and all of them were healthy and strong.
  • 38. The Egyptians were afraid of them and were glad when they left.
  • 39. God put a cloud over his people and a fire at night to give them light.
  • 40. They asked, and he sent quails; he gave them food from heaven to satisfy them.
  • 41. He opened a rock, and water gushed out, flowing through the desert like a river.
  • 42. He remembered his sacred promise to Abraham his servant.
  • 43. So he led his chosen people out, and they sang and shouted for joy.
  • 44. He gave them the lands of other peoples and let them take over their fields,
  • 45. so that his people would obey his laws and keep all his commands. Praise the LORD!
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