Zaburi 105

The LORD keeps his promise

¹Thank the LORD and call on his name; tell every people what he has done. ²Sing to him, play and sing his praise; talk of all the wonderful things he has done. ³Take pride in his holy name; let all who look to the LORD be glad at heart. ⁴Turn to the LORD and to his strength; come into his presence again and again. ⁵Call to mind the wonders he has worked, his signs, and the verdicts he spoke, ⁶you descendants of his servant Abraham, you children of Jacob, the ones he chose. ⁷He, the LORD, is our God; his rulings reach the whole earth. ⁸He keeps his covenant in mind forever, the promise he laid down for a thousand generations, ⁹the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac, ¹⁰and he set it in place for Jacob as a decree, for Israel as a covenant that lasts forever, ¹¹saying, “The land of Canaan I give to you, a share marked out for you to inherit.” ¹²When they were only a handful of people, a few outsiders living in that land, ¹³wandering from one nation to the next, from one kingdom to another people, ¹⁴he let no one do them wrong, and he took kings to task over them: ¹⁵“Do not lay a hand on my anointed ones; do not hurt my prophets.” ¹⁶He summoned a famine over the land and broke off every supply of bread. ¹⁷But he had already sent a man on ahead of them: Joseph, who was sold to be a slave. ¹⁸Shackles bruised his feet, and his neck was locked in iron, ¹⁹until the day his own words came true; the word of the LORD refined him. ²⁰The king sent orders to free him; the ruler of many peoples let him loose. ²¹He put him in charge of his palace and gave him rule over all his wealth, ²²with power to put his officials in chains if he chose, and to make his counselors wise.^{a 23}So Israel came into Egypt, and Jacob settled as a guest in the land of Ham. ²⁴There he made his people grow greatly in number, until they were too strong for their enemies. ²⁵He turned the hearts of the Egyptians to hatred of his people and to scheming against his servants. ²⁶He sent his servant Moses, and with him Aaron, his chosen one. ²⁷Among the Egyptians they carried out the signs he had spoken of, and wonders throughout the land of Ham. ²⁸He sent darkness and the land went dark; and they did not defy his word.^{b 29}He made their waters blood and left their fish dead. ³⁰Frogs swarmed over their land, even into the inner rooms of their kings. ³¹At his command came swarms of flies, and gnats covered every part of their land. ³²Instead of rain he gave them hail, with fire flashing across their land. ³³He beat down their grapevines and their fig trees and splintered every tree in their land. ³⁴At his word the locusts arrived, swarms of young locusts too many to count, ³⁵and they devoured every green plant in their land and swallowed up the harvest of their fields. ³⁶And he killed the firstborn of every family in their land, the first sons born of their strength. ³⁷He brought his people out carrying silver and gold, and in all his tribes not one person stumbled. ³⁸Egypt was happy to see them go, since fear of them had come over its people. ³⁹He spread a cloud above them like a screen, and fire to light up the night. ⁴⁰When they asked, he sent quail, and he gave them their fill of bread from heaven. ⁴¹He opened up a rock and water streamed out, running like a river through the parched land. ⁴²For he remembered the holy word he had spoken to Abraham, his servant. ⁴³So he led his people out rejoicing, his chosen ones singing aloud for joy. ⁴⁴He gave them the lands of other nations, and they took over what those peoples had worked for, ⁴⁵so that they would keep his decrees and hold fast to his instructions. Praise the LORD!