Psalms 105
1 Praise the Lord, and call vpon his Name: declare his workes among the people.
Give thanks to the Lord, call on his name: make known his deeds among the nations.
2 Sing vnto him, sing prayse vnto him, and talke of all his wonderous workes.
Sing to him, make music to him, tell of all his wondrous works.
3 Reioyce in his holy Name: let the heart of them that seeke the Lord, reioyce.
Make your boast in his holy name, be glad at heart, you who seek the Lord.
4 Seeke the Lord and his strength: seeke his face continually.
Seek after the Lord and his strength, seek his face evermore.
5 Remember his marueilous woorkes, that he hath done, his wonders and the iudgements of his mouth,
Remember the wonders he did, his portents, the judgments he uttered,
6 Ye seede of Abraham his seruant, ye children of Iaakob, which are his elect.
you who are offspring of Abraham, his servant, the children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
7 He is the Lord our God: his iudgements are through all the earth.
He is the Lord our God: in all the earth are his judgments.
8 He hath alway remembred his couenant and promise, that he made to a thousand generations,
He remembers forever his covenant, his promise for a thousand generations
9 Euen that which he made with Abraham, and his othe vnto Izhak:
The covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac,
10 And since hath confirmed it to Iaakob for a lawe, and to Israel for an euerlasting couenant,
and confirmed as a statute to Jacob, a pact everlasting to Israel
11 Saying, Vnto thee will I giue the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance.
to give them the land of Canaan as the lot which they should inherit.
12 Albeit they were fewe in nomber, yea, very fewe, and strangers in the land,
And when they were very few, few and but pilgrims therein,
13 And walked about from nation to nation, from one kingdome to another people,
wandering from nation to nation, journeying from people to people,
14 Yet suffered he no man to doe them wrong, but reprooued Kings for their sakes, saying,
he allowed no one to oppress them, even punishing kings for their sakes.
15 Touche not mine anointed, and doe my Prophets no harme.
He forbade them to touch his anointed, or do any hurt to his prophets.
16 Moreouer, he called a famine vpon ye land, and vtterly brake the staffe of bread.
When he called down famine on the land, and cut off the bread which sustained them,
17 But he sent a man before them: Ioseph was solde for a slaue.
he sent before them a man, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
18 They helde his feete in the stockes, and he was laide in yrons,
His feet were galled with fetters, he was laid in chains of iron,
19 Vntill his appointed time came, and the counsell of the Lord had tryed him.
till the time that his word came to pass, the word of the Lord that had tried him.
20 The King sent and loosed him: euen the Ruler of the people deliuered him.
The king sent and freed him, the ruler of nations released him.
21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance,
He made him lord of his household, and ruler of all his possessions,
22 That he shoulde binde his princes vnto his will, and teach his Ancients wisedome.
to admonish his princes at will and instruct his elders in wisdom.
23 Then Israel came to Egypt, and Iaakob was a stranger in the land of Ham.
Thus Israel came into Egypt, Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
24 And he increased his people exceedingly, and made them stronger then their oppressours.
His people he made very fruitful, and mightier than their foes.
25 He turned their heart to hate his people, and to deale craftily with his seruants.
He inspired them to hate his people, and to deal with his servants craftily.
26 Then sent he Moses his seruant, and Aaron whom he had chosen.
He sent his servant Moses, and Aaron whom he had chosen,
27 They shewed among them the message of his signes, and wonders in the land of Ham.
portents he wrought in Egypt, and signs in the land of Ham.
28 He sent darkenesse, and made it darke: and they were not disobedient vnto his commission.
Darkness he sent, and it fell: yet they gave no heed to his word.
29 He turned their waters into blood, and slewe their fish.
He turned their waters into blood, thus causing their fish to die.
30 Their land brought foorth frogs, euen in their Kings chambers.
Their land was alive with frogs, swarming even in the royal chambers.
31 He spake, and there came swarmes of flies and lice in all their quarters.
At his command came flies, and lice in all their borders.
32 He gaue them haile for raine, and flames of fire in their land.
He gave them hail for rain and fire that flashed through the land,
33 He smote their vines also and their figge trees, and brake downe the trees in their coastes.
smiting their vines and figs, breaking the trees of their border.
34 He spake, and the grashoppers came, and caterpillers innumerable,
At his command came locusts, young locusts beyond all counting,
35 And did eate vp all the grasse in their land, and deuoured the fruite of their ground.
which ate every herb in the land, ate up, too, the fruit of their ground.
36 He smote also all the first borne in their land, euen the beginning of all their strength.
He struck down in their land all the firstborn, the firstlings of all their strength
37 He brought them forth also with siluer and golde, and there was none feeble among their tribes.
Then forth he led Israel with silver and gold, and among his tribes no one was weary.
38 Egypt was glad at their departing: for the feare of them had fallen vpon them.
Egypt was glad when they left, for terror had fallen upon them.
39 He spred a cloude to be a couering, and fire to giue light in the night.
He spread out a cloud to screen them, and fire to give light in the night.
40 They asked, and he brought quailes, and he filled them with the bread of heauen.
He sent quails at their entreaty, and heavenly bread in abundance.
41 He opened the rocke, and the waters flowed out, and ranne in the drye places like a riuer.
He opened the rock; waters gushed: in the desert they ran like a river.
42 For he remembred his holy promise to Abraham his seruant,
For he remembered his holy promise to Abraham his servant.
43 And he brought forth his people with ioy, and his chosen with gladnesse,
So he led out his people with joy, his elect with a ringing cry.
44 And gaue them the lands of the heathen, and they tooke the labours of the people in possession,
And he gave them the lands of the nations, the fruit of their toil for possession,
45 That they might keepe his statutes, and obserue his Lawes. Prayse ye the Lord.
that so they might keep his statutes, and be of his laws observant. Hallelujah.
