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Praise him!</p> <p class="poetry2">Declare all his awesome deeds!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Exult in his holy name;</p> <p class="poetry2">let all<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="105:3 Lit. Let the heart of">a</a></span> those who seek the LORD rejoice!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Seek the LORD and his strength;</p> <p class="poetry2">seek his face continually.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Remember his awesome deeds that he has done,</p> <p class="poetry2">his wonders and the judgments he declared.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>You descendants of Abraham, his servant,</p> <p class="poetry2">You children of Jacob, his chosen ones.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He is the LORD our God;</p> <p class="poetry2">his judgments extend to the entire earth.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He remembers his eternal covenant—</p> <p class="poetry2">every promise he made<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="105:8 Lit. every word he commanded">b</a></span> for a thousand generations,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>like the covenant he made<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="105:9 Lit. like he cut">c</a></span> with Abraham,</p> <p class="poetry2">and his promise to Isaac.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He presented it to Jacob as a decree,</p> <p class="poetry2">to Israel as an everlasting covenant.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He said: “I will give Canaan to you</p> <p class="poetry2">as the allotted portion that is your inheritance.”</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When the Hebrews<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="105:12 Lit. When they">d</a></span> were few in number—so very few—</p> <p class="poetry2">and were sojourners in it,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>they wandered from nation to nation,</p> <p class="poetry2">from one kingdom to another.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="105:13Lit. one kingdom to another nation">e</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He did not allow anyone to oppress them,</p> <p class="poetry2">or any kings to reprove them.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“Don’t touch my anointed</p> <p class="poetry2">or hurt my prophets!”</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He declared a famine on the land;</p> <p class="poetry2">destroying the entire food supply.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="105:16 Lit. every staff of bread">f</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He sent a man before them—</p> <p class="poetry2">Joseph, who had been sold as a slave.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>They bound his feet with fetters</p> <p class="poetry2">and placed an iron collar on his neck,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="105:18 Lit. soul">g</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>until the time his prediction came true,</p> <p class="poetry2">as the word of the LORD refined him.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He sent a king who released him,</p> <p class="poetry2">a ruler of people who set him free.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>He made him the master over his household,</p> <p class="poetry2">the manager of all his possessions—</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>to discipline his rulers at will</p> <p class="poetry2">and make his elders wise.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Then Israel came to Egypt;</p> <p class="poetry2">indeed, Jacob lived in the land of Ham.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="105:23 i.e. Egypt">h</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>He caused his people to multiply greatly;</p> <p class="poetry2">and be more numerous than their enemies.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>He caused them<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="105:25 Lit. He turned their hearts">i</a></span> to hate his people</p> <p class="poetry2">and to deceive his servants.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>He sent his servant Moses, along with Aaron,</p> <p class="poetry2">whom he had chosen.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>They performed his signs among them,</p> <p class="poetry2">his wonders in the land of Ham.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="105:27 i.e. Egypt">j</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>He sent darkness, and it became dark.</p> <p class="poetry2">Did they not rebel against<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="105:28 So MT DSS 11QPs; LXX reads not embitter">k</a></span> his words?</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>He turned their water into blood,</p> <p class="poetry2">so that the fish died.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Their land swarmed with frogs</p> <p class="poetry2">even to the chambers of their kings.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>He spoke,</p> <p class="poetry2">and a swarm of insects invaded their land.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="105:31 Or borders">l</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>He sent hail instead of rain,</p> <p class="poetry2">and lightning throughout their land.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>It destroyed their vines and their figs,</p> <p class="poetry2">breaking trees throughout their country.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="105:33 Or borders">m</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Then he commanded the locust to come—</p> <p class="poetry2">grasshoppers without number.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>They consumed every green plant in their land,</p> <p class="poetry2">and devoured the fruit of their soil.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>He struck down every firstborn in their land,</p> <p class="poetry2">the first fruits of all their progeny.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Then he brought Israel<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="105:37 Lit. them">n</a></span> out with silver and gold,</p> <p class="poetry2">and no one among his tribes stumbled.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>The Egyptians rejoiced when they left,</p> <p class="poetry2">because fear of Israel<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="105:38 Lit. them">o</a></span> descended on them.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>He spread out a cloud for a cover,</p> <p class="poetry2">and fire for light at night.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>Israel<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="105:40 The Heb. lacks Israel">p</a></span> asked, and quail came;</p> <p class="poetry2">food from heaven satisfied them.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>He opened a rock, and water gushed out</p> <p class="poetry2">flowing like a river in the desert.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>Indeed, he remembered his sacred promise</p> <p class="poetry2">to his servant Abraham.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>He led his people out with gladness,</p> <p class="poetry2">his chosen ones with shouts of joy.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>He gave to them the land of nations;</p> <p class="poetry2">they inherited the labor of other<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="105:44 The Heb. lacks other">q</a></span> people</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>so they might keep his statutes</p> <p class="poetry2">and observe his laws.</p> <p class="poetry2">Hallelujah!</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 105:3 Lit. <i>Let the heart of</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 105:8 Lit. <i>every word he commanded</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 105:9 Lit. <i>like he cut</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 105:12 Lit. <i>When they</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 105:13Lit. <i>one kingdom to another nation</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 105:16 Lit. <i>every staff of bread</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 105:18 Lit. <i>soul</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 105:23 i.e. Egypt<br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 105:25 Lit. <i>He turned their hearts</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 105:27 i.e. Egypt<br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 105:28 So MT DSS 11QPs; LXX reads <i>not embitter</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 105:31 Or <i>borders</i><br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 105:33 Or <i>borders</i><br /><span 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