Psalm 105
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- Psalm 105
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- Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done.
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- Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts.
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- Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.
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- Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always.
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- Remember the wonders he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced,
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- O descendants of Abraham his servant, O sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.
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- He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
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- He remembers his covenant forever, the word he commanded, for a thousand generations,
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- the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac.
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- He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
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- "To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion you will inherit."
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- When they were but few in number, few indeed, and strangers in it,
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- they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
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- He allowed no one to oppress them; for their sake he rebuked kings:
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- "Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm."
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- He called down famine on the land and destroyed all their supplies of food;
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- and he sent a man before them-- Joseph, sold as a slave.
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- They bruised his feet with shackles, his neck was put in irons,
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- till what he foretold came to pass, till the word of the LORD proved him true.
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- The king sent and released him, the ruler of peoples set him free.
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- He made him master of his household, ruler over all he possessed,
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- to instruct his princes as he pleased and teach his elders wisdom.
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- Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob lived as an alien in the land of Ham.
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- The LORD made his people very fruitful; he made them too numerous for their foes,
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- whose hearts he turned 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 his miraculous signs among them, his wonders in the land of Ham.
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- He sent darkness and made the land dark-- for had they not rebelled against his words?
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- He turned their waters into blood, causing their fish to die.
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- Their land teemed with frogs, which went up into the bedrooms of their rulers.
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- He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats throughout their country.
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- He turned their rain into hail, with lightning throughout their land;
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- he struck down their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their country.
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- He spoke, and the locusts came, grasshoppers without number;
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- they ate up every green thing in their land, ate up the produce of their soil.
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- Then he struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their manhood.
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- He brought out Israel, laden with silver and gold, and from among their tribes no one faltered.
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- Egypt was glad when they left, because dread of Israel had fallen on them.
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- He spread out a cloud as a covering, and a fire to give light at night.
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- They asked, and he brought them quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
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- He opened the rock, and water gushed out; like a river it flowed in the desert.
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- For he remembered his holy promise given to his servant Abraham.
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- He brought out his people with rejoicing, his chosen ones with shouts of joy;
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- he gave them the lands of the nations, and they fell heir to what others had toiled for--
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- that they might keep his precepts and observe his laws. Praise the LORD.