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- 1 Give thanks to the LORD! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples.
- 2 Sing to him, sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works.
- 3 Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek the LORD rejoice.
- 4 Seek the LORD and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
- 5 Remember his marvelous works that he has done: his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
- 6 you offspring of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
- 7 He is the LORD, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.
- 8 He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
- 9 the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,
- 10 and confirmed it to Jacob for a statute; to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
- 11 saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance,”
- 12 when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
- 13 They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.
- 14 He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
- 15 “Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”
- 16 He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.
- 17 He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.
- 18 They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,
- 19 until the time that his word happened, and the LORD’s word proved him true.
- 20 The king sent and freed him, even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.
- 21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions,
- 22 to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.
- 23 Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob lived in the land of Ham.
- 24 He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.
- 25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.
- 26 He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
- 27 They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
- 28 He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words.
- 29 He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish.
- 30 Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the rooms of their kings.
- 31 He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders.
- 32 He gave them hail for rain, with lightning in their land.
- 33 He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.
- 34 He spoke, and the locusts came with the grasshoppers, without number.
- 35 They ate up every plant in their land, and ate up the fruit of their ground.
- 36 He struck also all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their manhood.
- 37 He brought them out with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes.
- 38 Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen on them.
- 39 He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.
- 40 They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.
- 41 He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.
- 42 For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.
- 43 He brought his people out with joy, his chosen with singing.
- 44 He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
- 45 that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise the LORD!