Psalms 105
1 O give thanks unto the Lord; call on his name: make known among the people his deeds.
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 of all his wonderful works.
Sing to him; praise him as you sing to him; tell others about his wonderful miracles.
3 Glorify yourselves in his holy name: let the heart of those rejoice that seek the Lord.
Be happy because [you know that] he [MTY] is holy! You people who worship Yahweh, rejoice!
4 Inquire after the Lord and his strength: seek his presence evermore.
Ask Yahweh to help you and give you his strength, and continue to ask him!
5 Remember his wonderful works which he hath done; his tokens, and the decrees 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 elect.
7 He is the Lord our God: over all the earth are his decrees.
He is Yahweh, our God. He rules and judges [people] throughout the earth.
8 He remembereth his covenant for ever, the word which he hath commanded, to the thousandth generation.
He never forgets the agreement that he made; he made a promise that will last for 1,000 generations;
9 Which he covenanted 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 which he established unto Jacob as a statute, unto Israel as 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, 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 but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers 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 wandered from one nation to another, 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 oppress them; yea, he reproved kings for their sake;
But he did not allow others to oppress them. He warned those kings by saying to them,
15 [Saying, ] “Touch not my anointed, 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 for a famine over the land; every staff of bread he broke.
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; for a servant was Joseph sold;
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 forced into fetters his feet; in iron was his body put:
[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, [when] the saying of the Lord had purified 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 unfettered him; the ruler of 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 appointed him lord of his house, and ruler of all his possession:
[Then] he appointed him to take care of everything in the king’s household, to take care of everything that the king possessed.
22 That he might bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his ancients 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 came Israel 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 stronger than 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 subtilely 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, Aaron also whom he had made choice of.
[But then] Yahweh sent his servant Moses along with [Moses’ older brother] Aaron, whom Yahweh had [also] chosen [to be his servant].
27 They displayed among them his effective 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 made it 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 changed 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 brought forth frogs in abundance, in the very 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 various wild beasts, lice also within all their boundary.
[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 as their rain hail, and flames of 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 the trees within their boundary.
The hail ruined their grapevines and fig trees and shattered all the [other] trees.
34 He spoke, and the locusts came, and crickets, and that without number;
He commanded locusts to come, and swarms of them came; [so many that] they could not be counted.
35 And they ate up all the herbs in their land, and ate up the fruit of their ground.
The locusts ate every green plant in the land, ruining all the crops.
36 And he smote all the first-born in their land, the first 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 not one 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 rejoiced when they departed; for the dread of them was 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 out a cloud for a covering, 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 The people asked, and he brought quails, and with heavenly bread he satisfied them.
[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 the waters gushed out: they ran in the dry places like a river.
[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 given to 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 gladness, with joyful song his elect.
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 nations; and the labor of people they obtained as an inheritance:
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 So that they might observe his statutes, and keep 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!
