Psalms 105
1 Give ye thanks to Jehovah — call ye in His name, Make known among the peoples His acts.
Give thanks to Yahweh, and tell others that he is very great! Tell everyone in the world what he has done!
2 Sing ye to Him — sing praise to Him, Meditate ye 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 Jehovah rejoiceth.
Be happy because [you know that] he [MTY] is holy! You people who worship Yahweh, rejoice!
4 Seek ye Jehovah and His strength, Seek ye 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] Jehovah our God, In all the earth [are] His judgments.
He is Yahweh, our God. He rules and judges [people] throughout the earth.
8 He hath remembered to the age His covenant, The word 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 That He hath 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 doth establish it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel — a covenant age-during,
[Later] he confirmed it [again] to Jacob as an agreement for the Israeli [people] that would last forever.
11 Saying, 'To thee I give the land of Canaan, 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 unto nation, From a kingdom unto another people.
They continued to wander from one place to another, from one kingdom to another.
14 He hath not suffered any to oppress them And He reproveth for their sakes kings.
But he did not allow others to oppress them. He warned those kings by saying to them,
15 'Strike not against Mine anointed, And to My prophets do not evil.'
“Do not do harm the [people] whom I have chosen! Do not harm my prophets!”
16 And He calleth a famine on the land, The whole staff of bread He hath broken.
He sent a famine to Canaan, and [as a result all the people] had no food to eat.
17 He hath sent before them a man, For a servant hath Joseph been 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 have afflicted with fetters his feet, Iron hath 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 Till the time of the coming of His word The saying of Jehovah hath 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 hath sent, and looseth him, The ruler of the peoples, and draweth 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 hath 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 his elders he maketh 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 cometh in to Egypt, And Jacob hath 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 maketh His people very fruitful, And maketh 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 hath sent Moses His servant, 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 hath 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 hath turned their waters to blood, And putteth to death 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 Teemed hath their land [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 hath said, and the beetle cometh, 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 hath 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 smiteth their vine and their fig, And shivereth the trees of their border.
The hail ruined their grapevines and fig trees and shattered all the [other] trees.
34 He hath said, and the locust cometh, 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 consumeth every herb in their land, And it consumeth the fruit of their ground.
The locusts ate every green plant in the land, ruining all the crops.
36 And He smiteth every first-born 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 bringeth them out with silver and gold, And there is not in its tribes a feeble one.
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 Rejoiced hath Egypt in their going forth, For their fear had 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 hath 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 bringeth quails, And [with] bread of heaven satisfieth 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 hath opened a rock, and waters issue, 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 hath remembered His holy word, With 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 bringeth forth His people with joy, With singing His chosen ones.
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 giveth to them the lands of nations, And the labour of peoples they possess,
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 His laws may keep. Praise ye Jehovah!
[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!
