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href="footnotes.htm#en23105001-a">a</a></p> <p class="sl1">make known among the peoples his deeds!<a id="ren23105001-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23105001-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105002" class="ver">2</span>Sing praise to him, play music;</p> <p class="sl1">proclaim all his wondrous deeds!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105003" class="ver">3</span>Glory in his holy name;</p> <p class="sl1">let hearts that seek the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> rejoice!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105004" class="ver">4</span>Seek out the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> and his might;</p> <p class="sl1">constantly seek his face.<a id="ren23105004-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23105004-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105005" class="ver">5</span>Recall the wondrous deeds he has done,</p> <p class="sl1">his wonders and words of judgment,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105006" class="ver">6</span>You descendants of Abraham his servant,</p> <p class="sl1">offspring of Jacob the chosen one!</p> </div> <p class="chsect">II</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v23105007" class="ver">7</span>He the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, is our God</p> <p class="sl1">whose judgments reach through all the earth.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105008" class="ver">8</span>He remembers forever his covenant,</p> <p class="sl1">the word he commanded for a thousand generations,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105009" class="ver">9</span>Which he made with Abraham,</p> <p class="sl1">and swore to Isaac,<a id="ren23105009-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23105009-d">d</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105010" class="ver">10</span>And ratified in a statute for Jacob,</p> <p class="sl1">an everlasting covenant for Israel:</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105011" class="ver">11</span>“To you I give the land of Canaan,</p> <p class="sl1">your own allotted inheritance.”<a id="ren23105011-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23105011-e">e</a></p> </div> <p class="chsect">III</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v23105012" class="ver">12</span>When they were few in number,<a id="ren23105012-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23105012-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl1">a handful, and strangers there,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105013" class="ver">13</span>Wandering from nation to nation,</p> <p class="sl1">from one kingdom to another people,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105014" class="ver">14</span>He let no one oppress them;</p> <p class="sl1">for their sake he rebuked kings:<a id="rfn23105014-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23105014-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105015" class="ver">15</span><a id="rfn23105015-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23105015-1">*</a>“Do not touch my anointed ones,</p> <p class="sl1">to my prophets do no harm.”</p> </div> <p class="chsect">IV</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v23105016" class="ver">16</span>Then he called down a famine on the land,</p> <p class="sl1">destroyed the grain that sustained them.<a id="rfn23105016-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23105016-1">*</a><a id="ren23105016-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23105016-g">g</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105017" class="ver">17</span>He had sent a man ahead of them,</p> <p class="sl1">Joseph, sold as a slave.<a id="ren23105017-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23105017-h">h</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105018" class="ver">18</span>They shackled his feet with chains;</p> <p class="sl1">collared his neck in iron,<a id="ren23105018-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23105018-i">i</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105019" class="ver">19</span>Till his prediction came to pass,</p> <p class="sl1">and the word of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> proved him true.<a id="ren23105019-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23105019-j">j</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105020" class="ver">20</span>The king sent and released him;</p> <p class="sl1">the ruler of peoples set him free.<a id="ren23105020-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23105020-k">k</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105021" class="ver">21</span>He made him lord over his household,</p> <p class="sl1">ruler over all his possessions,<a id="ren23105021-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23105021-l">l</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105022" class="ver">22</span>To instruct his princes as he desired,</p> <p class="sl1">to teach his elders wisdom.</p> </div> <p class="chsect">V</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v23105023" class="ver">23</span>Then Israel entered Egypt;<a id="ren23105023-m" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23105023-m">m</a></p> <p class="sl1">Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.<a id="rfn23105023-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23105023-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105024" class="ver">24</span>God greatly increased his people,</p> <p class="sl1">made them more numerous than their foes.<a id="ren23105024-n" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23105024-n">n</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105025" class="ver">25</span>He turned their hearts to hate his people,</p> <p class="sl1">to treat his servants deceitfully.<a id="ren23105025-o" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23105025-o">o</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105026" class="ver">26</span>He sent his servant Moses,</p> <p class="sl1">and Aaron whom he had chosen.<a id="ren23105026-p" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23105026-p">p</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105027" class="ver">27</span><a id="rfn23105027-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23105027-1">*</a>They worked his signs in Egypt<a id="ren23105027-q" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23105027-q">q</a></p> <p class="sl1">and wonders in the land of Ham.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105028" class="ver">28</span>He sent darkness and it grew dark,</p> <p class="sl1">but they rebelled against his word.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105029" class="ver">29</span>He turned their waters into blood</p> <p class="sl1">and killed their fish.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105030" class="ver">30</span>Their land swarmed with frogs,</p> <p class="sl1">even the chambers of their kings.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105031" class="ver">31</span>He spoke and there came swarms of flies,</p> <p class="sl1">gnats through all their country.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105032" class="ver">32</span>For rain he gave them hail,</p> <p class="sl1">flashes of lightning throughout their land.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105033" class="ver">33</span>He struck down their vines and fig trees,</p> <p class="sl1">shattered the trees of their country.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105034" class="ver">34</span>He spoke and the locusts came,</p> <p class="sl1">grasshoppers without number.<a id="ren23105034-r" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23105034-r">r</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105035" class="ver">35</span>They devoured every plant in the land;</p> <p class="sl1">they devoured the crops of their fields.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105036" class="ver">36</span>He struck down every firstborn in the land,</p> <p class="sl1">the first fruits of all their vigor.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105037" class="ver">37</span>He brought his people out,</p> <p class="sl1">laden with silver and gold;<a id="ren23105037-s" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23105037-s">s</a></p> <p class="sl1">no one among the tribes stumbled.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105038" class="ver">38</span>Egypt rejoiced when they left,</p> <p class="sl1">for fear had seized them.</p> </div> <p class="chsect">VI</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v23105039" class="ver">39</span>He spread a cloud out as a cover,</p> <p class="sl1">and made a fire to light up the night.<a id="ren23105039-t" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23105039-t">t</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105040" class="ver">40</span>They asked and he brought them quail;</p> <p class="sl1">with bread from heaven he filled them.<a id="ren23105040-u" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23105040-u">u</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105041" class="ver">41</span>He split the rock and water gushed forth;</p> <p class="sl1">it flowed through the desert like a river.<a id="ren23105041-v" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23105041-v">v</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105042" class="ver">42</span>For he remembered his sacred promise</p> <p class="sl1">to Abraham his servant.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105043" class="ver">43</span>He brought his people out with joy,</p> <p class="sl1">his chosen ones with shouts of triumph.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105044" class="ver">44</span>He gave them the lands of the nations,</p> <p class="sl1">they took possession of the wealth of the peoples,<a id="ren23105044-w" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23105044-w">w</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23105045" class="ver">45</span>That they might keep his statutes</p> <p class="sl1">and observe his teachings.<a id="ren23105045-x" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23105045-x">x</a></p> <p class="sl">Hallelujah!</p> </div> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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