Psalm 105

New American Standard Bible

The Lord’s Wonderful Works in Behalf of Israel.

105 ^(A)Give thanks to the Lord, ^(B)call upon His name;
^(C)Make His deeds known among the peoples.
²Sing to Him, ^(D)sing praises to Him;
^[a]^(E)Tell of all His ^[b]wonders.
³Boast in His holy name;
May the ^(F)heart of those who seek the Lord be joyful.
⁴Seek the Lord and ^(G)His strength;
^(H)Seek His face continually.
⁵Remember His ^[c]^(I)wonders which He has done,
His marvels and the ^(J)judgments ^[d]spoken by His mouth,
⁶You ^[e]descendants of ^(K)Abraham, His servant,
You sons of ^(L)Jacob, His ^(M)chosen ones!
⁷He is the Lord our God;
His ^(N)judgments are in all the earth.

⁸He has ^(O)remembered His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded to a ^(P)thousand generations,
⁹The ^(Q)covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His ^(R)oath to Isaac.
¹⁰Then He ^(S)confirmed it to Jacob as a statute,
To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
¹¹Saying, “^(T)To you I will give the land of Canaan
As the ^[f]^(U)portion of your inheritance,”
¹²When they were only a ^(V)few people in number,
Very few, and ^(W)strangers in it.
¹³And they wandered from nation to nation,
From one kingdom to another people,
¹⁴He ^(X)allowed no one to oppress them,
And He ^[g]^(Y)rebuked kings for their sakes, saying,
¹⁵“^(Z)Do not touch My anointed ones,
And do not harm My prophets.”

¹⁶And He ^(AA)called for a famine upon the land;
He ^(AB)broke the whole staff of bread.
¹⁷He ^(AC)sent a man before them,
Joseph, who was ^(AD)sold as a slave.
¹⁸They forced his ^(AE)feet into shackles,
^[h]He was put in irons;
¹⁹Until the time that his ^(AF)word came to pass,
The word of the Lord ^(AG)refined him.
²⁰The ^(AH)king sent and released him,
The ruler of peoples, and set him free.
²¹He ^(AI)made him lord of his house,
And ruler over all his possessions,
²²To ^[i]imprison his high officials ^[j]^(AJ)at will,
That he might teach his elders wisdom.
²³^(AK)Israel also came into Egypt;
So Jacob ^(AL)lived in the land of Ham.
²⁴And He ^(AM)made His people very fruitful,
And made them stronger than their enemies.

²⁵He ^(AN)turned their heart to hate His people,
To ^(AO)deal cunningly with His servants.
²⁶He ^(AP)sent His servant Moses,
And ^(AQ)Aaron, whom He had chosen.
²⁷They ^[k]^(AR)performed His wondrous acts among them,
And miracles in the land of Ham.
²⁸He ^(AS)sent darkness and made it dark;
And they did not ^(AT)rebel against His words.
²⁹He ^(AU)turned their waters into blood,
And caused their fish to die.
³⁰Their land swarmed with ^(AV)frogs
Even in the ^(AW)chambers of their kings.
³¹He spoke, and a ^(AX)swarm of flies
And ^(AY)gnats invaded all their territory.
³²He ^[l]gave them ^(AZ)hail for rain,
And flaming fire in their land.
³³He also ^(BA)struck their vines and their fig trees,
And smashed the trees of their territory.
³⁴He spoke, and ^(BB)locusts came,
And creeping locusts, beyond number,
³⁵And they ate all the vegetation in their land,
And ate the fruit of their ground.
³⁶He also ^(BC)fatally struck all the firstborn in their land,
The ^(BD)first fruits of all their vigor.

³⁷Then He brought ^[m]the Israelites out with ^(BE)silver and gold,
And among His tribes there was not one who stumbled.
³⁸Egypt was ^(BF)glad when they departed,
For the ^(BG)dread of them had fallen upon ^[n]the Egyptians.
³⁹He spread out a ^(BH)cloud as a ^[o]covering,
And ^(BI)fire to illumine by night.
⁴⁰^[p]They ^(BJ)asked, and He brought ^(BK)quail,
And satisfied them with the ^[q]^(BL)bread of heaven.
⁴¹He opened the ^[r]rock and ^(BM)water flowed out;
^[s]It ran in the dry places like a river.
⁴²For He ^(BN)remembered His holy word
With His servant Abraham;
⁴³And He led out His people with joy,
His chosen ones with a joyful ^(BO)shout.
⁴⁴He also ^(BP)gave them the lands of the ^[t]nations,
So that they ^(BQ)might take possession of the fruit of the peoples’ labor,
⁴⁵And that they might ^(BR)keep His statutes
And comply with His laws;
^[u]Praise ^[v]the Lord!