Psalm 105

¹Give thanks to the Lord and proclaim his greatness.

Let the whole world know what he has done.

²Sing to him; yes, sing his praises.

Tell everyone about his wonderful deeds.

³Exult in his holy name;

rejoice, you who worship the Lord.

⁴Search for the Lord and for his strength;

continually seek him.

⁵Remember the wonders he has performed,

his miracles, and the rulings he has given,

⁶you children of his servant Abraham,

you descendants of Jacob, his chosen ones.

⁷He is the Lord our God.

His justice is seen throughout the land.

⁸He always stands by his covenant—

the commitment he made to a thousand generations.

⁹This is the covenant he made with Abraham

and the oath he swore to Isaac.

¹⁰He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree,

and to the people of Israel as a never-ending covenant:

¹¹“I will give you the land of Canaan

as your special possession.”

¹²He said this when they were few in number,

a tiny group of strangers in Canaan.

¹³They wandered from nation to nation,

from one kingdom to another.

¹⁴Yet he did not let anyone oppress them.

He warned kings on their behalf:

¹⁵“Do not touch my chosen people,

and do not hurt my prophets.”

¹⁶He called for a famine on the land of Canaan,

cutting off its food supply.

¹⁷Then he sent someone to Egypt ahead of them—

Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

¹⁸They bruised his feet with fetters

and placed his neck in an iron collar.

¹⁹Until the time came to fulfill his dreams,^a

the Lord tested Joseph’s character.

²⁰Then Pharaoh sent for him and set him free;

the ruler of the nation opened his prison door.

²¹Joseph was put in charge of all the king’s household;

he became ruler over all the king’s possessions.

²²He could instruct^b the king’s aides as he pleased

and teach the king’s advisers.

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^c 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.

Praise the Lord!