Psalms 105
1 Alleluia. Give thanks to the Lord, and call upon his name; declare his works among the heathen.
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, yea, sing praises to him: tell forth all his wonderful works.
Sing to him; praise him as you sing to him; tell others about his wonderful miracles.
3 Glory in his holy name: let the heart of them that seek the Lord rejoice.
Be happy because [you know that] he [MTY] is holy! You people who worship Yahweh, rejoice!
4 Seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened; seek his face continually.
Ask Yahweh to help you and give you his strength, and continue to ask him!
5 Remember his wonderful works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;
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 [ye] seed of Abraam, his servants, [ye] children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
7 He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
He is Yahweh, our God. He rules and judges [people] throughout the earth.
8 He has remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded for a thousand generation:
He never forgets the agreement that he made; he made a promise that will last for 1,000 generations;
9 which he established as a covenant to Abraam, and [he remembered] his oath to Isaac.
that is the agreement that he made with Abraham, and he repeated that agreement with Isaac.
10 And he established it to Jacob for an ordinance, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant;
[Later] he confirmed it [again] to Jacob as an agreement for the Israeli [people] that would last forever.
11 saying To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the line 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, very few, and sojourners in it.
[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 And they went from nation to nation, and from [one] kingdom to another people.
They continued to wander from one place to another, from one kingdom to another.
14 He suffered no man to wrong them; and he rebuked kings for their sakes:
But he did not allow others to oppress them. He warned those kings by saying to them,
15 [saying], Touch not my anointed ones; and do my prophets no harm.
“Do not do harm the [people] whom I have chosen! Do not harm my prophets!”
16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land; he broke the whole support of bread.
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 was sold for 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 hurt his feet with fetters; his soul passed into iron,
[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 the time that his cause came on; the word of the Lord tried him as fire.
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 loosed him; [even] the prince of the people, and let him go 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 Lord over his house, and ruler of 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 chastise his rulers at his pleasure, and to 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 Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the land of Cham.
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 he increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their enemies.
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 And he turned their heart to hate his people, to deal craftily with 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 fort 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 He established among them his signs, and [his] wonders in the land of Cham.
Those two performed amazing miracles among the people of Egypt, in that land where the descendants of Ham lived.
28 He sent forth darkness, and made it dark; yet they rebelled against 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 into blood, and slew their fish.
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 produced frogs abundantly, in the chambers of their kings.
[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 the dog-fly came, and lice in all their coasts.
[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 turned their rain into hail, [and sent] flaming fire in their land.
Instead of sending rain, Yahweh sent [terrible] hail, and lightning flashed throughout the land.
33 And he smote their vines and their fig trees; and broke every tree of their coast.
The hail ruined their grapevines and fig trees and shattered all the [other] trees.
34 He spoke, and the locust came, and caterpillars innumerable,
He commanded locusts to come, and swarms of them came; [so many that] they could not be counted.
35 and devoured all the grass in their land, and devoured the fruit of the ground.
The locusts ate every green plant in the land, ruining all the crops.
36 He smote also every first-born of their land, the first-fruits of all their labour.
[Then] Yahweh killed the oldest son in every house [of the people of Egypt] [DOU].
37 And he brought them out with silver and gold; and there was not a feeble one among their tribes.
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 rejoiced at their departing; for the fear of them fell upon them.
[The people of] Egypt were glad when the Israeli people left, because they had become very afraid of the Israelis.
39 He spread out a cloud for a covering to them, and fire to give them light by 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 the quail came, and he 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 clave the rock, and the waters flowed, rivers ran in dry places.
[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 word, which [he promised] to Abraam his servant.
[He did that] because he kept thinking about the sacred promise [that he had given] to his servant, Abraham.
43 And he brought out his people with exultation, and his chosen with 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 and gave them the lands of the heathen; and they inherited the labours of the people;
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 ordinances, and diligently seek his law.
[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!
