📖 Psalms 105
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Give thanks to the LORD! Call on his name! Make known his accomplishments among the nations!
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Sing to him! Make music to him! Tell about all his miraculous deeds!
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Boast about his holy name! Let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice!
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Seek the LORD and the strength he gives! Seek his presence continually!
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Recall the miraculous deeds he performed, his mighty acts and the judgments he decreed,
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O children of Abraham, God’s servant, you descendants of Jacob, God’s chosen ones!
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He is the LORD our God; he carries out judgment throughout the earth.
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He always remembers his covenantal decree, the promise he made to a thousand generations–
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the promise he made to Abraham, the promise he made by oath to Isaac!
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He gave it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as a lasting promise,
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saying,“To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”
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When they were few in number, just a very few, and resident foreigners within it,
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they wandered from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another.
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He let no one oppress them; he disciplined kings for their sake,
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saying,“Don’t touch my chosen ones! Don’t harm my prophets!”
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He called down a famine upon the earth; he cut off all the food supply.
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He sent a man ahead of them– Joseph was sold as a servant.
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The shackles hurt his feet; his neck was placed in an iron collar,
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until the time when his prediction came true. The LORD’s word proved him right.
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The king authorized his release; the ruler of nations set him free.
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He put him in charge of his palace, and made him manager of all his property,
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giving him authority to imprison his officials and to teach his advisers.
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Israel moved to Egypt; Jacob lived for a time in the land of Ham.
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The LORD made his people very fruitful, and made them more numerous than their enemies.
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He caused them to hate his people, and to mistreat his servants.
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He sent his servant Moses, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
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They executed his miraculous signs among them, and his amazing deeds in the land of Ham.
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He made it dark; they did not disobey his orders.
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He turned their water into blood, and killed their fish.
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Their land was overrun by frogs, which even got into the rooms of their kings.
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He ordered flies to come; gnats invaded their whole territory.
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He sent hail along with the rain; there was lightning in their land.
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He destroyed their vines and fig trees, and broke the trees throughout their territory.
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He ordered locusts to come, innumerable grasshoppers.
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They ate all the vegetation in their land, and devoured the crops of their fields.
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He struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of their reproductive power.
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He brought his people out enriched with silver and gold; none of his tribes stumbled.
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Egypt was happy when they left, for they were afraid of them.
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He spread out a cloud for a cover, and provided a fire to light up the night.
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They asked for food, and he sent quails; he satisfied them with food from the sky.
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He opened up a rock and water flowed out; a river ran through dry regions.
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Yes, he remembered the sacred promise he made to Abraham his servant.
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When he led his people out, they rejoiced; his chosen ones shouted with joy.
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He handed the territory of nations over to them, and they took possession of what other peoples had produced,
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so that they might keep his commands and obey his laws. Praise the LORD!