Chapter 105

  Give ye thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name; make known his acts among the peoples.  

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  Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him; meditate upon all his wondrous works.  

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  Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek Jehovah.  

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  Seek Jehovah and his strength, seek his face continually;  

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  Remember his wondrous works which he hath done, his miracles and the judgments of his mouth:  

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  Ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.  

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  He, Jehovah, is our God; his judgments are in all the earth.  

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  He is ever mindful of his covenant, -- the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, --  

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  Which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;  

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  And he confirmed it unto Jacob for a statute, unto Israel for an everlasting covenant,  

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  Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;  

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  When they were a few men in number, of small account, and strangers in it.  

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  And they went from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.  

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  He suffered no man to oppress them, and reproved kings for their sakes,  

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  [Saying,] Touch not mine anointed ones, and do my prophets no harm.  

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  And he called for a famine upon the land; he broke the whole staff of bread.  

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  He sent a man before them: Joseph was sold for a bondman.  

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  They afflicted his feet with fetters; his soul came into irons;  

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  Until the time when what he said came about: the word of Jehovah tried him.  

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  The king sent and loosed him -- the ruler of peoples -- and let him go free.  

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  He made him lord of his house, and ruler over all his possessions:  

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  To bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom.  

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  And Israel came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.  

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  And he made his people exceeding fruitful, and made them mightier than their oppressors.  

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  He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.  

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  He sent Moses his servant, [and] Aaron whom he had chosen:  

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  They set his signs among them, and miracles in the land of Ham.  

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  He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.  

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  He turned their waters into blood, and caused their fish to die.  

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

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  He spoke, and there came dog-flies, [and] gnats in all their borders.  

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  He gave them hail for rain, [and] flaming fire in their land;  

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  And he smote their vines and their fig-trees, and broke the trees of their borders.  

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  He spoke, and the locust came, and the cankerworm, even without number;  

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  And they devoured every herb in their land, and ate up the fruit of their ground.  

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  And he smote every firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their vigour.  

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  And he brought them forth with silver and gold; and there was not one feeble among their tribes.  

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  Egypt rejoiced at their departure; for the fear of them had fallen upon them.  

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

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

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  He opened the rock, and waters gushed forth; they ran in the dry places [like] a river.  

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  For he remembered his holy word, [and] Abraham his servant;  

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  And he brought forth his people with gladness, his chosen with rejoicing;  

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  And he gave them the lands of the nations, and they took possession of the labour of the peoples:  

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  That they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Hallelujah!  

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