Psalm 105

International Standard Version

⁷ He is the Lord our God;
    his judgments extend to the entire earth.
⁸ He remembers his eternal covenant—
    every promise he made^[b] for a thousand generations,
⁹ like the covenant he made^[c] with Abraham,
    and his promise to Isaac.
¹⁰ He presented it to Jacob as a decree,
    to Israel as an everlasting covenant.
¹¹ He said: “I will give Canaan to you
    as the allotted portion that is your inheritance.”

¹² When the Hebrews^[d] were few in number—so very few—
    and were sojourners in it,
¹³ they wandered from nation to nation,
    from one kingdom to another.^[e]
14 He did not allow anyone to oppress them,
    or any kings to reprove them.
¹⁵ “Don’t touch my anointed
    or hurt my prophets!”

¹⁶ He declared a famine on the land;
    destroying the entire food supply.^[f]
17 He sent a man before them—
    Joseph, who had been sold as a slave.
¹⁸ They bound his feet with fetters
    and placed an iron collar on his neck,^[g]
19 until the time his prediction came true,
    as the word of the Lord refined him.
²⁰ He sent a king who released him,
    a ruler of people who set him free.
²¹ He made him the master over his household,
    the manager of all his possessions—
²² to discipline his rulers at will
    and make his elders wise.

²³ Then Israel came to Egypt;
    indeed, Jacob lived in the land of Ham.^[h]

²⁴ He caused his people to multiply greatly;
    and be more numerous than their enemies.
²⁵ He caused them^[i] to hate his people
    and to deceive his servants.
²⁶ He sent his servant Moses, along with Aaron,
    whom he had chosen.
²⁷ They performed his signs among them,
    his wonders in the land of Ham.^[j]

²⁸ He sent darkness, and it became dark.
    Did they not rebel against^[k] his words?
²⁹ He turned their water into blood,
    so that the fish died.
³⁰ Their land swarmed with frogs
    even to the chambers of their kings.
³¹ He spoke,
    and a swarm of insects invaded their land.^[l]

³² He sent hail instead of rain,
    and lightning throughout their land.
³³ It destroyed their vines and their figs,
    breaking trees throughout their country.^[m]
34 Then he commanded the locust to come—
    grasshoppers without number.
³⁵ They consumed every green plant in their land,
    and devoured the fruit of their soil.
³⁶ He struck down every firstborn in their land,
    the first fruits of all their progeny.

³⁷ Then he brought Israel^[n] out with silver and gold,
    and no one among his tribes stumbled.
³⁸ The Egyptians rejoiced when they left,
    because fear of Israel^[o] descended on them.
³⁹ He spread out a cloud for a cover,
    and fire for light at night.
⁴⁰ Israel^[p] asked, and quail came;
    food from heaven satisfied them.
⁴¹ He opened a rock, and water gushed out
    flowing like a river in the desert.

⁴² Indeed, he remembered his sacred promise
    to his servant Abraham.
⁴³ He led his people out with gladness,
    his chosen ones with shouts of joy.
⁴⁴ He gave to them the land of nations;
    they inherited the labor of other^[q] people
⁴⁵ so they might keep his statutes
    and observe his laws.
        Hallelujah!