Psalms Chapter 105
1 Be grateful to Yahveh; call on him;
tell the nations what all he’s done.
2 Sing praises to him;
talk about the amazing acts.
3 Take pride in his holy name;
let the people be happy that rely on him.
4 Rely on Yahveh and his strength;
depend on him always.
5 Remember his amazing miracles,
the judgments he’s rendered,
6 descendants of Abraham his servant,
children of Jacob, his chosen ones!
7 He’s Yahveh our God,
who renders judgment all over the world.
Ps 105:1-7
8 He remembers his eternal covenant,
the message he commanded to a thousand generations,
9 his covenant with Abraham, his oath to Isaac.
10his statute confirmed to Jacob
as an ongoing covenant.
11 He swore, “I’ll give you Canaan to inherit.”
12 When they were just a few,
temporary residents,
13they wandered from nation to nation,
from kingdom to kingdom.
14 He didn’t let anybody oppress them;
he reprimanded kings on their behalf:
15“Don’t touch my anointed ones;
don’t harm my prophets.”
Ps 105:8-15
16 He called for a famine in the land
and cut off their food supply.
17 He sent a man ahead of them,
Joseph, sold as a slave.
18 They hurt his feet with restraints
and put an iron collar around his neck
19 till God’s message came to him
and revealed what kind of man he was.
20 The king released him;
the people’s ruler let him go.
21 He made him master of his household,
steward over everything he owned,
22 even to imprison his officials if he saw fit
so he could teach his elders wisdom.
Ps 105:16-22
23 Then Israel/Jacob went down to Egypt
and lived as a foreigner in the land of Ham.
24 God multiplied his people
and made them stronger than their enemies,
25whose hearts he turned against his people
to mistreat them.
26 Then he sent Moses his servant
and Aaron his chosen one
27to perform his amazing acts among them,
miracles in the land of Ham:
28he engulfed their land in darkness
when they defied him and his message;
29he turned their water to blood
and killed their fish;
Ps 105:23-29
30frogs overran the land
even into the king’s bedrooms;
31swarms of flies came,
and gnats infested the whole region;
32he gave them hail for rain,
and lightning flashed in the land;
33he struck down their grapevines and fig trees
and stripped their trees;
34he summoned countless young locusts to come
35and eat the vegetation in the country
and devour the produce from the ground;
36he struck the Egyptians’ firstborn,
the first issue of their strength.
Ps 105:30-36
37 Then he brought Israel out with silver and gold;
nobody among the tribes faltered.
38 The Egyptians were glad when they left
because they’d come to dread them.
39 He spread a cloud over them
and sent fire to light up the night.
40 They asked, and he brought quail
and satisfied them with manna from the sky.
41 He opened a rock and water came out
and ran into the desert like a stream.
42 He remembered his sacred promise
to Abraham his servant.
43 He brought his people out with joy and celebration.
44 He gave them the lands of nations,
and they harvested what those nations had grown;
45he did it so they would keep his statutes
and observe his laws.
Hallelujah!
Ps 105:37-45