Psalms 105
1 Give thanks to YHWH—call on His Name, Make His acts known 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 to Him—sing praise to Him, Meditate on all His wonders.
Sing to him; praise him as you sing to him; tell others about his wonderful miracles.
3 Boast yourselves in His Holy Name, The heart of those seeking YHWH rejoices.
Be happy because [you know that] he [MTY] is holy! You people who worship Yahweh, rejoice!
4 Seek YHWH 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 wonders that He did, His signs 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 seed of Abraham, His servant, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
7 He [is] our God YHWH, 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 all time, The word He commanded to one thousand generations,
He never forgets the agreement that he made; he made a promise that will last for 1,000 generations;
9 That He has made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac,
that is the agreement that he made with Abraham, and he repeated that agreement with Isaac.
10 And establishes it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel—a perpetual covenant,
[Later] he confirmed it [again] to Jacob as an agreement for the Israeli [people] that would last forever.
11 Saying, “I give the land of Canaan to you, 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 In their being few in number, But a 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 go up and down, from nation to nation, From a kingdom to another people.
They continued to wander from one place to another, from one kingdom to another.
14 He has not permitted any to oppress them And He reproves kings for their sakes.
But he did not allow others to oppress them. He warned those kings by saying to them,
15 “Do not strike against My anointed, And do no evil to My prophets.”
“Do not do harm the [people] whom I have chosen! Do not harm my prophets!”
16 And He calls a famine on the land, He has broken 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 has sent a man before them, Joseph has been 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 They have afflicted his feet with chains, Iron has entered his soul,
[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 of the coming of His word The saying of YHWH has tried 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 has sent, and looses him, The ruler of the peoples, and draws him out.
The king [of Egypt] summoned him, and he set Joseph free; this ruler of many people-groups released Joseph [from prison].
21 He has made him lord of his house, And ruler over 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 chiefs at his pleasure, And he makes his elderly wise.
(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 And Israel comes into Egypt, And Jacob has 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 makes His people very fruitful, And makes it mightier than its 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 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 has sent His servant Moses, Aaron whom He had fixed on.
[But then] Yahweh sent his servant Moses along with [Moses’ older brother] Aaron, whom Yahweh had [also] chosen [to be his servant].
27 They have set among them the matters of His 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 has sent darkness, and it is dark, And they have not provoked 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 has turned their waters to blood, And puts their fish to death.
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 has teemed [with] frogs, In the inner 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 has commanded, and the beetle comes, Lice into all their border.
[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 has made their showers hail, A flaming fire [is] in their land.
Instead of sending rain, Yahweh sent [terrible] hail, and lightning flashed throughout the land.
33 And He strikes their vine and their fig, And shatters the trees of their border.
The hail ruined their grapevines and fig trees and shattered all the [other] trees.
34 He has commanded, and the locust comes, And the cankerworm—innumerable,
He commanded locusts to come, and swarms of them came; [so many that] they could not be counted.
35 And it consumes every herb in their land, And it consumes the fruit of their ground.
The locusts ate every green plant in the land, ruining all the crops.
36 And He strikes every firstborn in their land, The first-fruit of all their strength,
[Then] Yahweh killed the oldest son in every house [of the people of Egypt] [DOU].
37 And brings them out with silver and gold, And there is not a feeble one in its 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 has rejoiced in their going forth, For their fear 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 has spread a cloud for a covering, And fire to enlighten 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 have asked, and He brings quails, And satisfies them [with] bread of the heavens.
[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 has opened a rock, and waters flow, They have gone on in dry places—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 has remembered His holy word, With His servant Abraham,
[He did that] because he kept thinking about the sacred promise [that he had given] to his servant, Abraham.
43 And He brings 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 gives to them the lands of nations, And they possess the labor of peoples,
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 may observe His statutes, And may keep His laws. Praise YAH!
[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!
