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 to Yahweh, Call upon his Name, Make known, among the peoples, his doings;
2 Sing to him; praise him as you sing to him; tell others about his wonderful miracles.
Sing ye to him, Make ye music to him, Speak ye of all his wonders.
3 Be happy because [you know that] he [MTY] is holy! You people who worship Yahweh, rejoice!
Make your boast in his holy Name, Joyful be the heart of them who are seeking Yahweh.
4 Ask Yahweh to help you and give you his strength, and continue to ask him!
Search out Yahweh and his strength, Seek diligently his face at all times.
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 wonders which he hath done, His portents, and the just decisions of his mouth.
O ye Seed of Abraham—his servants, Sons of Jacob—his chosen ones:
7 He is Yahweh, our God. He rules and judges [people] throughout the earth.
Yahweh himself, is our God, Through all the land, are his just decision.
8 He never forgets the agreement that he made; he made a promise that will last for 1,000 generations;
He hath remembered, unto times age-abiding, his covenant, The word 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 solemnised with Abraham, and his oath, to Isaac;
10 [Later] he confirmed it [again] to Jacob as an agreement for the Israeli [people] that would last forever.
And confirmed it unto Jacob for a statute, To Israel, as a covenant age-abiding;
11 What he said was, “I will give you the Canaan region; it will belong to you [and your descendants forever].”
Saying, To thee, will I give the land of Canaan, As your inherited portion;
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.
While as yet they were men easily counted, —A very few, and sojourners therein;
13 They continued to wander from one place to another, from one kingdom to another.
And they wandered from nation to nation, From a 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 son of earth to oppress them, And reproved—for their sakes—[even] kings!
15 “Do not do harm the [people] whom I have chosen! Do not harm my prophets!”
Ye may not touch mine Anointed ones, And, to my Prophets, may ye do no wrong.
16 He sent a famine to Canaan, and [as a result all the people] had no food to eat.
Then called he a famine over the land, All the staff of bread, he brake;
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 before them a man, For a slave, was he sold—[even] Joseph;
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 forced, into a fetter, his foot, Into the iron, entered his soul;
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 his word came to pass, Speech of Yahweh, proved 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 set him free, One having dominion over peoples, yet loosed he his bonds;
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 appointed him lord to his household, And one having dominion over all he possessed;
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].
That he might bind his rulers as he pleased, And, his elders, he might embue with 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.
So 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 caused them to become stronger than their adversaries.
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 let them turn their heart—To hate his people, To deal treacherously 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, 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.
He set among them his threatening signs, And his wonders, 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, But they rebelled against his words;
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 so 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 spake, and there came in the gad-fly, Gnats, in all their bounds;
32 Instead of sending rain, Yahweh sent [terrible] hail, and lightning flashed throughout the land.
He made their showers—hail, A fire flaming throughout 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 brake in pieces the trees of their bounds;
34 He commanded locusts to come, and swarms of them came; [so many that] they could not be counted.
He spake—then came the swarming locust, —The devouring locust, and that without number;
35 The locusts ate every green plant in the land, ruining all the crops.
And devoured all the herbage in their land, And devoured the fruit of their ground.
36 [Then] Yahweh killed the oldest son in every house [of the people of Egypt] [DOU].
Then smote he every firstborn in their land, The beginning of all their strength;
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.
Thus brought he them forth, with silver and gold, Nor was there, throughout his tribes, one that faltered;
38 [The people of] Egypt were glad when the Israeli people left, because they had become very afraid of the Israelis.
Egypt rejoiced when they went out, For the dread 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 out a cloud as a covering, And fire, to give light by 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 in the quail, —And, with the bread of the heavens, he satisfied them;
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 there gushed forth waters, They flowed along, through parched places, as 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, With 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.
Thus brought he forth his people with gladness, —With shouts of triumph, his chosen ones;
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 gave them, the lands of the nations, And, of the toil of the peoples, took they possession:
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!
In order that they might observe his statutes, And, over his laws, might keep watch, Praise ye Yah.
