Psalms 105

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

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1O GIVE thanks unto the Lord, call upon His name, make known His doings among the peoples!

2Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; meditate on and talk of all His marvelous deeds and devoutly praise them.

3Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those rejoice who seek and require the Lord [as their indispensable necessity].

4Seek, inquire of and for the Lord, and crave Him and His strength (His might and inflexibility to temptation); seek and require His face and His presence [continually] evermore.

5[Earnestly] remember the marvelous deeds that He has done, His miracles and wonders, the judgments and sentences which He pronounced [upon His enemies, as in Egypt]. [Ps. 78:43-51.]

6O you offspring of Abraham His servant, you children of Jacob, His chosen ones,

7He is the Lord our God; His judgments are in all the earth.

8He is [earnestly] mindful of His covenant and forever it is imprinted on His heart, the word which He commanded and established to a thousand generations,

9The covenant which He made with Abraham, and His sworn promise to Isaac, [Luke 1:72, 73.]

10Which He confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,

11Saying, Unto you will I give the land of Canaan as your measured portion, possession, and inheritance.

12When they were but a few men in number, in fact, very few, and were temporary residents and strangers in it,

13When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people,

14He allowed no man to do them wrong; in fact, He reproved kings for their sakes, [Gen. 12:17; 20:3-7.]

15Saying, Touch not My anointed, and do My prophets no harm. [I Chron. 16:8-22.]

16Moreover, He called for a famine upon the land [of Egypt]; He cut off every source of bread. [Gen. 41:54.]

17He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold as a servant. [Gen. 45:5; 50:20, 21.]

18His feet they hurt with fetters; he was laid in chains of iron and his soul entered into the iron,

19Until his word [to his cruel brothers] came true, until the word of the Lord tried and tested him.

20The king sent and loosed him, even the ruler of the peoples, and let him go free.

21He made Joseph lord of his house and ruler of all his substance, [Gen. 41:40.]

22To bind his princes at his pleasure and teach his elders wisdom.

23Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. [Gen. 46:6.]

24There [the Lord] greatly increased His people and made them stronger than their oppressors.

25He turned the hearts [of the Egyptians] to hate His people, to deal craftily with His servants.

26He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron, whom He had chosen.

27They showed His signs among them, wonders and miracles in the land of Ham (Egypt).

28He sent [thick] darkness and made the land dark, and they [God's two servants] rebelled not against His word. [Exod. 10:22; Ps. 99:7.]

29He turned [Egypt's] waters into blood and caused their fish to die. [Exod. 7:20, 21.]

30Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, even in the chambers of their kings. [Exod. 8:6.]

31He spoke, and there came swarms of beetles and flies and mosquitoes and lice in all their borders. [Exod. 8:17, 24.]

32He gave them hail for rain, with lightning like flaming fire in their land. [Exod. 9:23, 25.]

33He smote their vines also and their fig trees and broke the [ice-laden] trees of their borders. [Ps. 78:47.]

34He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, and that without number, [Exod. 10:4, 13, 14.]

35And ate up all the vegetation in their land and devoured the fruit of their ground.

36He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the beginning and chief substance of all their strength. [Exod. 12:29; Ps. 78:51.]

37He brought [Israel] forth also with silver and gold, and there was not one feeble person among their tribes. [Exod. 12:35.]

38Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen upon the people. [Exod. 12:33.]

39The Lord spread a cloud for a covering [by day], and a fire to give light in the night. [Exod. 13:21.]

40[The Israelites] asked, and He brought quails and satisfied them with the bread of heaven. [Exod. 16:12-15.]

41He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it ran in the dry places like a river. [Exod. 17:6; Num. 20:11.]

42For He [earnestly] remembered His holy word and promise to Abraham His servant. [Gen. 15:14.]

43And He brought forth His people with joy, and His chosen ones with gladness and singing,

44And gave them the lands of the nations [of Canaan], and they reaped the fruits of those peoples' labor, [Deut. 6:10, 11.]

45That they might observe His statutes and keep His laws [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying them]. Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

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