Psalms 105
1 Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings 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 praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works.
Sing to him; praise him as you sing to him; tell others about his wonderful miracles.
3 Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
Be happy because [you know that] he [MTY] is holy! You people who worship Yahweh, rejoice!
4 Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
Ask Yahweh to help you and give you his strength, and continue to ask him!
5 Remember his marvelous works that he has 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 you offspring of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
7 He is Yahweh, our God. 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 forever, 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, his oath to Isaac,
that is the agreement that he made with Abraham, and he repeated that agreement with Isaac.
10 and confirmed it to 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, “To you I will 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, yes, very few, and foreigners 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 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 allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
But he did not allow others to oppress them. He warned those kings by saying to them,
15 “Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”
“Do not do harm the [people] whom I have chosen! Do not harm my prophets!”
16 He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.
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 slave.
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 bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,
[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 happened, and Yahweh’s word proved him true.
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 freed him, even the ruler of peoples, 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 made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of 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 discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to 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. Jacob lived 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 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 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 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 performed miracles among them, 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. They didn’t rebel against his words.
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 killed 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, even in the rooms 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 swarms of flies came, and lice 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, with lightning in their land.
Instead of sending rain, Yahweh sent [terrible] hail, and lightning flashed throughout the land.
33 He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.
The hail ruined their grapevines and fig trees and shattered all the [other] trees.
34 He spoke, and the locusts came with the grasshoppers, without number.
He commanded locusts to come, and swarms of them came; [so many that] they could not be counted.
35 They ate up every plant 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 He struck also all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their manhood.
[Then] Yahweh killed the oldest son in every house [of the people of Egypt] [DOU].
37 He brought them out with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person 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 on 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 covering, 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 satisfied them with the bread of the sky.
[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 as 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, and Abraham, his servant.
[He did that] because he kept thinking about the sacred promise [that he had given] to his servant, Abraham.
43 He brought his people out with joy, his chosen 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 He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor 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. 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!
