Psalms 105
1 Give thanks to Yahweh, and tell others that he is very great! Tell everyone in the world what he has done!
Give ye thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name; make known his acts among the peoples.
2 Sing to him; praise him as you sing to him; tell others about his wonderful miracles.
Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him; meditate upon all his wondrous works.
3 Be happy because [you know that] he [MTY] is holy! You people who worship Yahweh, rejoice!
Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek Jehovah.
4 Ask Yahweh to help you and give you his strength, and continue to ask him!
Seek Jehovah and his strength, seek his face continually;
5 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].
Remember his wondrous works which he hath done, his miracles and the judgments of his mouth:
Ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.
7 He is Yahweh, our God. He rules and judges [people] throughout the earth.
He, Jehovah, is our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
8 He never forgets the agreement that he made; he made a promise that will last for 1,000 generations;
He is ever mindful of his covenant, — the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, —
9 that is the agreement that he made with Abraham, and he repeated that agreement with Isaac.
Which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;
10 [Later] he confirmed it [again] to Jacob as an agreement for the Israeli [people] that would last forever.
And he confirmed it unto Jacob for a statute, unto Israel for an everlasting covenant,
11 What he said was, “I will give you the Canaan region; it will belong to you [and your descendants forever].”
Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;
12 [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.
When they were a few men in number, of small account, and strangers in it.
13 They continued to wander from one place to another, from one kingdom to another.
And they went from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.
14 But he did not allow others to oppress them. He warned those kings by saying to them,
He suffered no man to oppress them, and reproved kings for their sakes,
15 “Do not do harm the [people] whom I have chosen! Do not harm my prophets!”
[Saying, ] Touch not mine anointed ones, and do my prophets no harm.
16 He sent a famine to Canaan, and [as a result all the people] had no food to eat.
And he called for a famine upon the land; he broke the whole staff of bread.
17 So his people went to Egypt, but first he sent someone there. He sent Joseph, who had been sold to be a slave.
He sent a man before them: Joseph was sold for a bondman.
18 [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.
They afflicted his feet with fetters; his soul came into irons;
19 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).
Until the time when what he said came about: the word of Jehovah tried him.
20 The king [of Egypt] summoned him, and he set Joseph free; this ruler of many people-groups released Joseph [from prison].
The king sent and loosed him — the ruler of peoples — and let him go free.
21 [Then] he appointed him to take care of everything in the king’s household, to take care of everything that the king possessed.
He made him lord of his house, and ruler over all his possessions:
22 (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].
To bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom.
23 Later, [Joseph’s father] Jacob arrived in Egypt. He lived like a foreigner in the land that belonged to the descendants of Ham.
And Israel came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
24 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.
And he made his people exceeding fruitful, and made them mightier than their oppressors.
25 [So] Yahweh caused the rulers of Egypt to (turn against/hate) the Israeli people, and they planned ways to get rid of his people.
He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
26 [But then] Yahweh sent his servant Moses along with [Moses’ older brother] Aaron, whom Yahweh had [also] chosen [to be his servant].
He sent Moses his servant, [and] Aaron whom he had chosen:
27 Those two performed amazing miracles among the people of Egypt, in that land where the descendants of Ham lived.
They set his signs among them, and miracles in the land of Ham.
28 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].
He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
29 Yahweh caused [all] the water in Egypt to become (blood/[red like] blood), and [his doing that] caused all the fish to die.
He turned their waters into blood, and caused their fish to die.
30 [Then he caused] the land to become full of frogs; the king and his officials even had frogs in their bedrooms.
Their land swarmed with frogs, — in the chambers of their kings.
31 [Then] Yahweh commanded that flies come, and swarms of them descended [on the people of Egypt], and gnats [also] swarmed across the whole country.
He spoke, and there came dog-flies, [and] gnats in all their borders.
32 Instead of sending rain, Yahweh sent [terrible] hail, and lightning flashed throughout the land.
He gave them hail for rain, [and] flaming fire in their land;
33 The hail ruined their grapevines and fig trees and shattered all the [other] trees.
And he smote their vines and their fig-trees, and broke the trees of their borders.
34 He commanded locusts to come, and swarms of them came; [so many that] they could not be counted.
He spoke, and the locust came, and the cankerworm, even without number;
35 The locusts ate every green plant in the land, ruining all the crops.
And they devoured every herb in their land, and ate up the fruit of their ground.
36 [Then] Yahweh killed the oldest son in every house [of the people of Egypt] [DOU].
And he smote every firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their vigour.
37 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.
And he brought them forth with silver and gold; and there was not one feeble among their tribes.
38 [The people of] Egypt were glad when the Israeli people left, because they had become very afraid of the Israelis.
Egypt rejoiced at their departure; for the fear of them had fallen upon them.
39 [Then] Yahweh spread a cloud to cover the Israelis; and [at night it became] a big fire [in the sky] to give them light.
He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light in the night.
40 [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].
They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
41 [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.
He opened the rock, and waters gushed forth; they ran in the dry places [like] a river.
42 [He did that] because he kept thinking about the sacred promise [that he had given] to his servant, Abraham.
For he remembered his holy word, [and] Abraham his servant;
43 So his people were joyful as he brought them out from Egypt; those people whom he had chosen were shouting joyfully as they went.
And he brought forth his people with gladness, his chosen with rejoicing;
44 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.
And he gave them the lands of the nations, and they took possession of the labour of the peoples:
45 [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!
That they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Hallelujah!
