Psalm 105

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁷ He is the Lord our God;
    his judgments are in all the earth.
⁸ He is mindful of his covenant forever,
    of the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations,
⁹ the covenant that he made with Abraham,
    his sworn promise to Isaac,
¹⁰ which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute,
    to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
¹¹ saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
    as your portion for an inheritance.”

¹² When they were few in number,
    of little account, and strangers in it,
¹³ wandering from nation to nation,
    from one kingdom to another people,
¹⁴ he allowed no one to oppress them;
    he rebuked kings on their account,
¹⁵ saying, “Do not touch my anointed ones;
    do my prophets no harm.”

¹⁶ When he summoned famine against the land,
    and broke every staff of bread,
¹⁷ he had sent a man ahead of them,
    Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
¹⁸ His feet were hurt with fetters,
    his neck was put in a collar of iron;
¹⁹ until what he had said came to pass,
    the word of the Lord kept testing him.
²⁰ The king sent and released him;
    the ruler of the peoples set him free.
²¹ He made him lord of his house,
    and ruler of all his possessions,
²² to instruct^[b] his officials at his pleasure,
    and to teach his elders wisdom.

²³ Then Israel came to Egypt;
    Jacob lived as an alien in the land of Ham.
²⁴ And the Lord made his people very fruitful,
    and made them stronger than their foes,
²⁵ whose hearts he then turned to hate his people,
    to deal craftily with his servants.

²⁶ He sent his servant Moses,
    and Aaron whom he had chosen.
²⁷ They performed his signs among them,
    and miracles in the land of Ham.
²⁸ He sent darkness, and made the land dark;
    they rebelled^[c] against his words.
²⁹ He turned their waters into blood,
    and caused their fish to die.
³⁰ Their land swarmed with frogs,
    even in the chambers of their kings.
³¹ He spoke, and there came swarms of flies,
    and gnats throughout their country.
³² He gave them hail for rain,
    and lightning that flashed through their land.
³³ He struck their vines and fig trees,
    and shattered the trees of their country.
³⁴ He spoke, and the locusts came,
    and young locusts without number;
³⁵ they devoured all the vegetation in their land,
    and ate up the fruit of their ground.
³⁶ He struck down all the firstborn in their land,
    the first issue of all their strength.

³⁷ Then he brought Israel^[d] out with silver and gold,
    and there was no one among their tribes who stumbled.
³⁸ Egypt was glad when they departed,
    for dread of them had fallen upon it.
³⁹ He spread a cloud for a covering,
    and fire to give light by night.
⁴⁰ They asked, and he brought quails,
    and gave them food from heaven in abundance.
⁴¹ He opened the rock, and water gushed out;
    it flowed through the desert like a river.
⁴² For he remembered his holy promise,
    and Abraham, his servant.

⁴³ So he brought his people out with joy,
    his chosen ones with singing.
⁴⁴ He gave them the lands of the nations,
    and they took possession of the wealth of the peoples,
⁴⁵ that they might keep his statutes
    and observe his laws.
Praise the Lord!