Psalmen 105

1. ¹Give ye thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name; make known his acts among the peoples.
2. ²Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him; meditate upon all his wondrous works.
3. ³Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek Jehovah.
4. ⁴Seek Jehovah and his strength, seek his face continually;
5. ⁵Remember his wondrous works which he hath done, his miracles and the judgments of his mouth:
6. ⁶Ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.
7. ⁷He, Jehovah, is our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
8. ⁸He is ever mindful of his covenant, -- the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, --
9. ⁹Which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;
10. ¹⁰And he confirmed it unto Jacob for a statute, unto Israel for an everlasting covenant,
11. ¹¹Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;
12. ¹²When they were a few men in number, of small account, and strangers in it.
13. ¹³And they went from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.
14. ¹⁴He suffered no man to oppress them, and reproved kings for their sakes,
15. ¹⁵[ergänzt: Saying,] Touch not mine anointed ones, and do my prophets no harm.
16. ¹⁶And he called for a famine upon the land; he broke the whole staff of bread.
17. ¹⁷He sent a man before them: Joseph was sold for a bondman.
18. ¹⁸They afflicted his feet with fetters; his soul came into irons;
19. ¹⁹Until the time when what he said came about: the word of Jehovah tried him.
20. ²⁰The king sent and loosed him -- the ruler of peoples -- and let him go free.
21. ²¹He made him lord of his house, and ruler over all his possessions:
22. ²²To bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom.
23. ²³And Israel came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
24. ²⁴And he made his people exceeding fruitful, and made them mightier than their oppressors.
25. ²⁵He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
26. ²⁶He sent Moses his servant, [ergänzt: and] Aaron whom he had chosen:
27. ²⁷They set his signs among them, and miracles in the land of Ham.
28. ²⁸He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
29. ²⁹He turned their waters into blood, and caused their fish to die.
30. ³⁰Their land swarmed with frogs, -- in the chambers of their kings.
31. ³¹He spoke, and there came dog-flies, [ergänzt: and] gnats in all their borders.
32. ³²He gave them hail for rain, [ergänzt: and] flaming fire in their land;
33. ³³And he smote their vines and their fig-trees, and broke the trees of their borders.
34. ³⁴He spoke, and the locust came, and the cankerworm, even without number;
35. ³⁵And they devoured every herb in their land, and ate up the fruit of their ground.
36. ³⁶And he smote every firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their vigour.
37. ³⁷And he brought them forth with silver and gold; and there was not one feeble among their tribes.
38. ³⁸Egypt rejoiced at their departure; for the fear of them had fallen upon them.
39. ³⁹He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light in the night.
40. ⁴⁰They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
41. ⁴¹He opened the rock, and waters gushed forth; they ran in the dry places [ergänzt: like] a river.
42. ⁴²For he remembered his holy word, [ergänzt: and] Abraham his servant;
43. ⁴³And he brought forth his people with gladness, his chosen with rejoicing;
44. ⁴⁴And he gave them the lands of the nations, and they took possession of the labour of the peoples:
45. ⁴⁵That they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Hallelujah!

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