Psalm 105
God’s Faithfulness to the Covenant
1 Give thanks to the Lord, invoke his name;
proclaim his deeds among the peoples.
2 Offer him honor with songs of praise;
recount all his marvelous deeds.
3 Glory in his holy name;
let the hearts of those who seek the Lord exult.
4 Reflect on the Lord and his strength;
seek his face continually.
5 Remember the marvels he has wrought,
his portents, and the judgments he has set forth.
6 You are the offspring of his servant Abraham,
the children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
7 He is the Lord, our God;
his judgments prevail all over the earth.
8 He is mindful of his covenant forever,
the promise he laid down for a thousand generations,
9 the covenant he made with Abraham
and the oath he swore to Isaac.
10 He established it as a decree for Jacob,
and as an everlasting covenant for Israel,
11 saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
as the portion of your heritage.”
12 When they were few in number,
an insignificant group of strangers in it,
13 they wandered from nation to nation,
from one kingdom to another.
14 He permitted no one to oppress them,
and in their regard he warned kings:
15 “Do not touch my anointed ones;
do no harm to my prophets.”
16 Then he invoked a famine on the land
and destroyed their supply of bread.
17 But he had sent a man ahead of them,
Joseph, who had been sold as a slave.
18 They shackled his feet with fetters
and clamped an iron collar around his neck,
19 until what he had prophesied was fulfilled
and the word of the Lord proved him true.
20 The king ordered that he be released;
the ruler of the peoples set him free.
21 He appointed him as master of his household
and as ruler of all his possessions.
22 He was to instruct his princes as he deemed fit
and to impart wisdom to his elders.
23 Then Israel went down into Egypt;
Jacob lived as an alien in the land of Ham.
24 God greatly increased the number of his people
and made them too strong for their foes,
25 whose hearts he then turned to hate his people
and to conspire against his servants.
26 He sent his servant Moses,
and Aaron whom he had chosen.
27 They performed his signs among them
and worked wonders in the land of Ham.
28 He sent darkness that enveloped the land,
but they rebelled against his warnings.
29 He turned their waters into blood,
and all their fish were destroyed.
30 Their land was saturated with frogs,
even in the royal chambers.
31 At his command there came hordes of flies
and gnats throughout their country.
32 He sent them hail instead of rain,
and flashes of lightning in all their land.
33 He struck down their vines and their fig trees
and demolished the trees of their country.
34 At his word the locusts came,
as well as grasshoppers beyond all count.
35 They gobbled up every green plant in the land
and devoured the produce of the soil.
36 He struck down all the firstborn of the land,
the firstfruits of their manhood.
37 Then he led out his people with silver and gold,
and there was not one among their tribes who stumbled.
38 Egypt was glad when they departed,
for dread of Israel had overwhelmed them.
39 He spread a cloud over his people as a cover
and a fire to give light by night.
40 At their request he supplied them with quail,
and he filled them with bread from heaven.
41 He split open a rock and water gushed forth,
flowing through the wilderness like a river.
42 For he remembered the sacred promise
that he had made to Abraham, his servant.
43 He led forth his people with rejoicing,
his chosen ones with exultation.
44 He gave them the lands of the nations,
and they inherited the fruit of other people’s toil,
45 so that they might keep his decrees
and observe his laws.
Alleluia.
Footnotes
- Psalm 105:1
- Psalm 105:1
- Psalm 105:1
- Psalm 105:3
- Psalm 105:5
- Psalm 105:6
- Psalm 105:8
- Psalm 105:9
- Psalm 105:10
- Psalm 105:12
- Psalm 105:14
- Psalm 105:15
- Psalm 105:22
- Psalm 105:23
- Psalm 105:25
- Psalm 105:28
- Psalm 105:39
- Psalm 105:40
- Psalm 105:41
- Psalm 105:43
