Psalm 105:23-45

Good News Translation

^23 (A)Then Jacob went to Egypt
    and settled in that country.
^24 (B)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 (C)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 (D)God sent darkness on the country,
    but the Egyptians did not obey^[a] his command.
^29 (E)He turned their rivers into blood
    and killed all their fish.
^30 (F)Their country was overrun with frogs;
    even the palace was filled with them.
^31 (G)God commanded, and flies and gnats
    swarmed throughout the whole country.
^32 (H)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 (I)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 (J)He killed the first-born sons
    of all the families of Egypt.

^37 (K)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 (L)God put a cloud over his people
    and a fire at night to give them light.
^40 (M)They^[b] asked, and he sent quails;
    he gave them food from heaven to satisfy them.
^41 (N)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 (O)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!