Psalms 105
1 Give thanks to the LORD, call upon His name; make known His deeds among the nations.
Give thanks to Yahweh, and tell others that he is very great! Tell everyone in the world what he has done!
2 Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; tell of all His wonders.
Sing to him; praise him as you sing to him; tell others about his wonderful miracles.
3 Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.
Be happy because [you know that] he [MTY] is holy! You people who worship Yahweh, rejoice!
4 Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.
Ask Yahweh to help you and give you his strength, and continue to ask him!
5 Remember the wonders He has done, His marvels, and the judgments He has pronounced,
You people who are descendants of God’s servant Abraham, you descendants of Jacob, the man God chose, think about [all] the wonderful things that he has done: He performed miracles, and he punished [all our enemies].
6 O offspring of His servant Abraham, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
7 He is the LORD our God; His judgments carry throughout the earth.
He is Yahweh, our God. He rules and judges [people] throughout the earth.
8 He remembers His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations—
He never forgets the agreement that he made; he made a promise that will last for 1,000 generations;
9 the covenant He made with Abraham, and the oath He swore to Isaac.
that is the agreement that he made with Abraham, and he repeated that agreement with Isaac.
10 He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
[Later] he confirmed it [again] to Jacob as an agreement for the Israeli [people] that would last forever.
11 “I will give you the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”
What he said was, “I will give you the Canaan region; it will belong to you [and your descendants forever].”
12 When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land,
[He said that to them] when there were only a few of them, a tiny group of people who were living in that land like strangers.
13 they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
They continued to wander from one place to another, from one kingdom to another.
14 He let no man oppress them; He rebuked kings on their behalf:
But he did not allow others to oppress them. He warned those kings by saying to them,
15 “Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!”
“Do not do harm the [people] whom I have chosen! Do not harm my prophets!”
16 He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food.
He sent a famine to Canaan, and [as a result all the people] had no food to eat.
17 He sent a man before them— Joseph, sold as a slave.
So his people went to Egypt, but first he sent someone there. He sent Joseph, who had been sold to be a slave.
18 They bruised his feet with shackles and placed his neck in irons,
[Later, while Joseph was in prison in Egypt], they put his legs in shackles that bruised his feet, and they put an iron collar around his neck.
19 until his prediction came true and the word of the LORD proved him right.
There, Yahweh (refined Joseph’s character/tested Joseph to see if Joseph would continue to trust him), until what Joseph predicted would happen (came true/happened).
20 The king sent and released him; the ruler of peoples set him free.
The king [of Egypt] summoned him, and he set Joseph free; this ruler of many people-groups released Joseph [from prison].
21 He made him master of his household, ruler over all his substance,
[Then] he appointed him to take care of everything in the king’s household, to take care of everything that the king possessed.
22 to instruct his princes as he pleased and teach his elders wisdom.
(Joseph was permitted/He permitted Joseph) to command the king’s servants to do anything that Joseph wanted them to do, and [even] to tell the king’s advisors the things that they should do [for the people of Egypt].
23 Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.
Later, [Joseph’s father] Jacob arrived in Egypt. He lived like a foreigner in the land that belonged to the descendants of Ham.
24 And the LORD made His people very fruitful, more numerous than their foes,
And [years later] Yahweh caused the descendants of Jacob to become very numerous. [As a result], their enemies, [the Egyptians], considered that the Israelis were too strong.
25 whose hearts He turned to hate His people, to conspire against His servants.
[So] Yahweh caused the rulers of Egypt to (turn against/hate) the Israeli people, and they planned ways to get rid of his people.
26 He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron, whom He had chosen.
[But then] Yahweh sent his servant Moses along with [Moses’ older brother] Aaron, whom Yahweh had [also] chosen [to be his servant].
27 They performed His miraculous signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
Those two performed amazing miracles among the people of Egypt, in that land where the descendants of Ham lived.
28 He sent darkness, and it became dark— yet they defied His words.
Yahweh sent darkness, so that the people of Egypt could not see anything [DOU], but the rulers of Egypt refused [RHQ] to obey when [Moses and Aaron] commanded [them to let the Israeli people leave Egypt].
29 He turned their waters to blood and caused their fish to die.
Yahweh caused [all] the water in Egypt to become (blood/[red like] blood), and [his doing that] caused all the fish to die.
30 Their land teemed with frogs, even in their royal chambers.
[Then he caused] the land to become full of frogs; the king and his officials even had frogs in their bedrooms.
31 He spoke, and insects swarmed— gnats throughout their country.
[Then] Yahweh commanded that flies come, and swarms of them descended [on the people of Egypt], and gnats [also] swarmed across the whole country.
32 He gave them hail for rain, with lightning throughout their land.
Instead of sending rain, Yahweh sent [terrible] hail, and lightning flashed throughout the land.
33 He struck their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their country.
The hail ruined their grapevines and fig trees and shattered all the [other] trees.
34 He spoke, and the locusts came— young locusts without number.
He commanded locusts to come, and swarms of them came; [so many that] they could not be counted.
35 They devoured every plant in their land and consumed the produce of their soil.
The locusts ate every green plant in the land, ruining all the crops.
36 Then He struck all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their vigor.
[Then] Yahweh killed the oldest son in every house [of the people of Egypt] [DOU].
37 He brought Israel out with silver and gold, and none among His tribes stumbled.
Then he brought the Israeli [people] out [from Egypt]; they were carrying loads of [jewelry made of] silver and gold [that the women of Egypt had given to them]. No one was left behind because of being sick.
38 Egypt was glad when they departed, for the dread of Israel had fallen on them.
[The people of] Egypt were glad when the Israeli people left, because they had become very afraid of the Israelis.
39 He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.
[Then] Yahweh spread a cloud to cover the Israelis; and [at night it became] a big fire [in the sky] to give them light.
40 They asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
[Later] the Israelis asked for [meat to eat], and Yahweh sent [flocks of] quail to them, and he gave them plenty of manna [food] from the sky [each morning].
41 He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.
[One day] he caused a rock to open up and water poured out [for them to drink]; it was like a river flowing in that desert.
42 For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.
[He did that] because he kept thinking about the sacred promise [that he had given] to his servant, Abraham.
43 He brought forth His people with rejoicing, His chosen with shouts of joy.
So his people were joyful as he brought them out from Egypt; those people whom he had chosen were shouting joyfully as they went.
44 He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,
He gave to them the land that belonged to the people-groups [that lived there in Canaan], and the Israelis harvested crops that [other] people had planted.
45 that they might keep His statutes and obey His laws. Hallelujah!
[Yahweh did all these things] in order that his people would do all the things that he had commanded them to do [DOU]. Praise Yahweh!
