Psalm 105:23-45

New Living Translation

²³Then Israel arrived in Egypt;
    Jacob lived as a foreigner in the land of Ham.
²⁴And the Lord multiplied the people of Israel
    until they became too mighty for their enemies.
²⁵Then he turned the Egyptians against the Israelites,
    and they plotted against the Lord’s servants.

²⁶But the Lord sent his servant Moses,
    along with Aaron, whom he had chosen.
²⁷They performed miraculous signs among the Egyptians,
    and wonders in the land of Ham.
²⁸The Lord blanketed Egypt in darkness,
    for they had defied^[a] his commands to let his people go.
²⁹He turned their water into blood,
    poisoning all the fish.
³⁰Then frogs overran the land
    and even invaded the king’s bedrooms.
³¹When the Lord spoke, flies descended on the Egyptians,
    and gnats swarmed across Egypt.
³²He sent them hail instead of rain,
    and lightning flashed over the land.
³³He ruined their grapevines and fig trees
    and shattered all the trees.
³⁴He spoke, and hordes of locusts came—
    young locusts beyond number.
³⁵They ate up everything green in the land,
    destroying all the crops in their fields.
³⁶Then he killed the oldest son in each Egyptian home,
    the pride and joy of each family.

³⁷The Lord brought his people out of Egypt, loaded with silver and gold;
    and not one among the tribes of Israel even stumbled.
³⁸Egypt was glad when they were gone,
    for they feared them greatly.
³⁹The Lord spread a cloud above them as a covering
    and gave them a great fire to light the darkness.
⁴⁰They asked for meat, and he sent them quail;
    he satisfied their hunger with manna—bread from heaven.
⁴¹He split open a rock, and water gushed out
    to form a river through the dry wasteland.
⁴²For he remembered his sacred promise
    to his servant Abraham.
⁴³So he brought his people out of Egypt with joy,
    his chosen ones with rejoicing.
⁴⁴He gave his people the lands of pagan nations,
    and they harvested crops that others had planted.
⁴⁵All this happened so they would follow his decrees
    and obey his instructions.