Psalms 105
1 O give thanks unto the LORD, call upon His name; make known His doings among the peoples.
Give thanks to Yahweh, and tell others that he is very great! Tell everyone in the world what he has done!
2 Sing unto Him, sing praises unto Him; speak ye of all His marvellous works.
Sing to him; praise him as you sing to him; tell others about his wonderful miracles.
3 Glory ye in His holy name; let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.
Be happy because [you know that] he [MTY] is holy! You people who worship Yahweh, rejoice!
4 Seek ye the LORD and His strength; seek His face continually.
Ask Yahweh to help you and give you his strength, and continue to ask him!
5 Remember His marvellous works that He hath 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 O ye seed of Abraham His servant, 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 hath remembered His covenant for ever, the word which He commanded to 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 which He made with Abraham, and His oath unto Isaac;
that is the agreement that he made with Abraham, and he repeated that agreement with Isaac.
10 And He established it unto Jacob for a statute, 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: 'Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot 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 but a few men in number. Yea, 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 when they went about from nation to nation, 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 do them wrong, yea, for their sake He reproved kings:
But he did not allow others to oppress them. He warned those kings by saying to them,
15 'Touch not Mine anointed ones, and do My prophets no harm.'
“Do not do harm the [people] whom I have chosen! Do not harm my prophets!”
16 And He called a famine upon the land; He broke the whole staff 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 servant;
So his people went to Egypt, but first he sent someone there. He sent Joseph, who had been sold to be a slave.
18 His feet they hurt with fetters, his person was laid in 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 word came to pass, the word of the LORD tested him.
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 ruler of the peoples, and 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 lord of his house, and ruler of all his possessions;
[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 bind his princes at his pleasure, 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 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned 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 He increased His people greatly, and made them too mighty for their adversaries.
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 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 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 wrought among them His manifold signs, 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 was dark; and they rebelled not against His word.
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 swarmed with frogs, 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 there came swarms of flies, and gnats in all their borders.
[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, and flaming fire in their land.
Instead of sending rain, Yahweh sent [terrible] hail, and lightning flashed throughout the land.
33 He smote their vines also and their fig-trees; and broke the trees of their borders.
The hail ruined their grapevines and fig trees and shattered all the [other] trees.
34 He spoke, and the locust came, and the canker-worm without number,
He commanded locusts to come, and swarms of them came; [so many that] they could not be counted.
35 And did eat up every herb in their land, and did eat up the fruit of their ground.
The locusts ate every green plant in the land, ruining all the crops.
36 He smote also all the first-born in their land, the first-fruits of all their strength.
[Then] Yahweh killed the oldest son in every house [of the people of Egypt] [DOU].
37 And He brought them forth with silver and gold; and there was none that stumbled among His 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 was glad when they departed; for the fear of them had fallen 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 a cloud for a screen; and fire to give light in 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 quails, and gave them in plenty 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 the rock, and waters gushed out; they ran, a river in the 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 unto Abraham 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 forth His people with joy, His chosen ones with singing.
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 He gave them the lands of the nations, and they took the labour of the peoples in possession;
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 observe 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!
