Chapter 105

  Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples.  

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  Sing to him, sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works.  

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  Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of them rejoice who seek Yahweh.  

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  Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.  

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  Remember his marvelous works that he has done; His wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,  

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  You seed of Abraham, his servant, You children of Jacob, his chosen ones.  

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  He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.  

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  He has remembered his covenant forever, The word which he commanded to a thousand generations,  

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  The covenant which he made with Abraham, His oath to Isaac,  

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  And confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute; To Israel for an everlasting covenant,  

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  Saying, 'To you I will give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;'  

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  When they were but a few men in number, Yes, very few, and sojourners in it.  

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  They went about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people.  

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  He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,  

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  'Don't touch my anointed ones. Do my prophets no harm.'  

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  He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.  

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  He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.  

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  They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,  

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  Until the time that his word happened, And Yahweh's word proved him true.  

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  The king sent and freed him; Even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.  

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  He made him lord of his house, And ruler of all of his possessions;  

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  To discipline his princes at his pleasure, And to teach his elders wisdom.  

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  Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.  

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  He increased his people greatly, And made them stronger than their adversaries.  

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  He turned their heart to hate his people, To conspire against his servants.  

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  He sent Moses, his servant, And Aaron, whom he had chosen.  

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  They performed miracles among them, And wonders in the land of Ham.  

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  He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn't rebel against his words.  

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  He turned their waters into blood, And killed their fish.  

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  Their land swarmed with frogs, Even in the chambers of their kings.  

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  He spoke, and swarms of flies came, And lice in all their borders.  

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  He gave them hail for rain, With lightning in their land.  

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  He struck their vines and also their fig trees, And shattered the trees of their country.  

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  He spoke, and the locusts came, And the grasshoppers, without number,  

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  Ate up every plant in their land; Ate up the fruit of their ground.  

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  He struck also all the firstborn in their land, The chief of all their strength.  

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  He brought them forth with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes.  

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  Egypt was glad when they departed, For the fear of them had fallen on them.  

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  He spread a cloud for a covering, Fire to give light in the night.  

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  They asked, and he brought quails, And satisfied them with the bread of the sky.  

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  He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.  

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  For he remembered his holy word, And Abraham, his servant.  

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  He brought forth his people with joy, His chosen with singing.  

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  He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,  

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  That they might keep his statutes, And observe his laws. Praise Yah! Psalm 106  

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