*Psalms 105

₁You must thank the Lord,

and praise his name. Go and tell all the nations

what He has done.

₂Sing to Him, and praise Him with music.

Tell about all the wonderful things

and miracles that He has done.

₃His holy name is full of glory.

Everyone who serves the Lord

must rejoice and show that he is happy.

₄You must trust in the Lord

and in his power.

Pray to Him and worship Him every day.

₅Think of the wonderful things

that He has done.

Think of the miracles that He has done

and all the fair things that He has decided.

₆You are the descendants

of Abraham, his servant,

the children of Jacob,

the one whom He chose.

₇He is the Lord our God.

His laws are all over the world,

and He will judge everyone.

₈He always thinks of the covenant

that He made with his people.

He will remember all his promises

for 1 000 generations.

₉He made the covenant with Abraham,

and He promised Isaac that He would be his God.

₁₀He told Jacob that

his covenant would never change,

and He promised Israel that

his covenant would be forever.

₁₁The Lord said: ‘I will give you

the land of Canaan,

and it will always belong to you.’

₁₂He said that when they were

only a few people,

and they were strangers in the land.

₁₃They went from one nation

to another nation,

from one land to another land.

₁₄The Lord said no nation

could oppress his people,

and He punished the kings who

wanted to attack his people.

₁₅He said: ‘You may not do

anything bad to my people.

I have anointed them,

and you may not hurt my prophets.’

₁₆The Lord sent a famine to the land

and He made them hungry,

because there was nothing to eat.

₁₇But before that,

He had sent a man to that land.

It was Joseph whose brothers

had sold him to be a slave.

₁₈They tied his feet with ropes

and put chains around his neck.

₁₉Joseph was a slave until

the time came when everything

happened as he had said it would.

The words of the Lord

showed that Joseph was right.

₂₀The king sent people

to take Joseph out of jail,

and the man who ruled over the people

opened the doors for Joseph.

₂₁The king chose Joseph

and appointed him as the head

of his palace and to rule over

everything that belonged to the king.

₂₂Joseph could tell all the officials

of the king what he wanted them to do,

and he told the leaders what to do and say.

₂₃Then Jacob came to Egypt.

He lived in the land of Ham

and he was a stranger there.

₂₄The Lord gave his people

a lot of children,

and made them more than their enemies.

₂₅Then the Lord changed the hearts

of the Egyptians and they

started to hate his people.

They were cunning and

made plans against his people.

₂₆The Lord sent his servants,

Moses and Aaron, to go to the king.

₂₇They showed the signs of the Lord

in front of the people,

and the miracles in the land of Ham.

₂₈The Lord sent darkness,

and no one could see,

but the Egyptians

rebelled_against what God said.

₂₉The Lord changed their water

into blood and all the fish died.

₃₀Frogs came all over the land,

even into the bedroom of the king.

₃₁The Lord sent

flies and gnats and they came

all over the land of Egypt.

₃₂The Lord sent rain

that became hail-stones,

and He sent lightning to the whole land of Egypt.

₃₃The hail-stones beat down on all the

vines and fig trees and destroyed them,

and all the trees in the land were broken.

₃₄Then the Lord called

the locusts to come.

There were big swarms of young locusts,

and no one could count how many there were.

₃₅The locusts ate all the plants in the land,

and everything that grew out of the ground.

₃₆The Lord then caused all the

firstborn sons in the land to die,

every son who was born

when his father was young.

₃₇The Lord took all the tribes

of the Israelites out of Egypt.

They had a lot of silver and gold

with them and all of them

were healthy and strong,

so no one stumbled or fell down.

₃₈The Egyptians were afraid of the Israelites

and that is why they were happy and thankful

when the Israelites went away.

₃₉The Lord covered the Israelites

with a cloud and He sent a fire

to light up the dark night.

₄₀The people asked for food

and the Lord sent quails.

He also sent them a lot of bread from heaven.

₄₁The Lord opened a rock

and water came out of it.

The water flowed like a river in the desert.

₄₂Yes, God remembered his

holy promise to his servant Abraham.

₄₃The Lord brought his people out of Egypt,

and they rejoiced and sang

because God had chosen them

to be his people.

₄₄The Lord gave his people the lands

that had belonged to other nations before.

His people received the fruit

that other people had worked for.

₄₅Why did the Lord do this?

He did it so that his people

would do what He told them

and so that they would obey his laws

and the things that He taught them.

You must praise the Lord.