| Chapter 105 |
1 | Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples.
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2 | Sing to him, sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works.
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3 | Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of them rejoice who seek Yahweh.
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4 | Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
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5 | Remember his marvelous works that he has done; His wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
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6 | You seed of Abraham, his servant, You children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
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7 | He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.
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8 | He has remembered his covenant forever, The word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
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9 | The covenant which he made with Abraham, His oath to Isaac,
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10 | And confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute; To Israel for an everlasting covenant,
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11 | Saying, 'To you I will give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;'
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12 | When they were but a few men in number, Yes, very few, and sojourners in it.
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13 | They went about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people.
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14 | He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
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15 | 'Don't touch my anointed ones. Do my prophets no harm.'
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16 | He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.
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17 | He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.
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18 | They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,
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19 | Until the time that his word happened, And Yahweh's word proved him true.
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20 | The king sent and freed him; Even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.
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21 | He made him lord of his house, And ruler of all of his possessions;
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22 | To discipline his princes at his pleasure, And to teach his elders wisdom.
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23 | Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
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24 | He increased his people greatly, And made them stronger than their adversaries.
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25 | He turned their heart to hate his people, To conspire against his servants.
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26 | He sent Moses, his servant, And Aaron, whom he had chosen.
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27 | They performed miracles among them, And wonders in the land of Ham.
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28 | He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn't rebel against his words.
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29 | He turned their waters into blood, And killed their fish.
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30 | Their land swarmed with frogs, Even in the chambers of their kings.
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31 | He spoke, and swarms of flies came, And lice in all their borders.
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32 | He gave them hail for rain, With lightning in their land.
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33 | He struck their vines and also their fig trees, And shattered the trees of their country.
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34 | He spoke, and the locusts came, And the grasshoppers, without number,
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35 | Ate up every plant in their land; Ate up the fruit of their ground.
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36 | He struck also all the firstborn in their land, The chief of all their strength.
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37 | He brought them forth with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes.
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38 | Egypt was glad when they departed, For the fear of them had fallen on them.
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39 | He spread a cloud for a covering, Fire to give light in the night.
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40 | They asked, and he brought quails, And satisfied them with the bread of the sky.
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41 | He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.
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42 | For he remembered his holy word, And Abraham, his servant.
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43 | He brought forth his people with joy, His chosen with singing.
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44 | He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
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45 | That they might keep his statutes, And observe his laws. Praise Yah! Psalm 106
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