| | 1 | Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done. | |
| | 2 | Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts. | |
| | 3 | Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice. | |
| | 4 | Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always. | |
| | 5 | Remember the wonders he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced, | |
| | 6 | O descendants of Abraham his servant, O sons of Jacob, his chosen ones. | |
| | 7 | He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth. | |
| | 8 | He remembers his covenant forever, the word he commanded, for a thousand generations, | |
| | 9 | the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac. | |
| | 10 | He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant: | |
| | 11 | "To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion you will inherit." | |
| | 12 | When they were but few in number, few indeed, and strangers in it, | |
| | 13 | they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another. | |
| | 14 | He allowed no one to oppress them; for their sake he rebuked kings: | |
| | 15 | "Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm." | |
| | 16 | He called down famine on the land and destroyed all their supplies of food; | |
| | 17 | and he sent a man before them--Joseph, sold as a slave. | |
| | 18 | They bruised his feet with shackles, his neck was put in irons, | |
| | 19 | till what he foretold came to pass, till the word of the LORD proved him true. | |
| | 20 | The king sent and released him, the ruler of peoples set him free. | |
| | 21 | He made him master of his household, ruler over all he possessed, | |
| | 22 | to instruct his princes as he pleased and teach his elders wisdom. | |
| | 23 | Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob lived as an alien in the land of Ham. | |
| | 24 | The LORD made his people very fruitful; he made them too numerous for their foes, | |
| | 25 | whose hearts he turned to hate his people, to conspire against his servants. | |
| | 26 | He sent Moses his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen. | |
| | 27 | They performed his miraculous signs among them, his wonders in the land of Ham. | |
| | 28 | He sent darkness and made the land dark--for had they not rebelled against his words? | |
| | 29 | He turned their waters into blood, causing their fish to die. | |
| | 30 | Their land teemed with frogs, which went up into the bedrooms of their rulers. | |
| | 31 | He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats throughout their country. | |
| | 32 | He turned their rain into hail, with lightning throughout their land; | |
| | 33 | he struck down their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their country. | |
| | 34 | He spoke, and the locusts came, grasshoppers without number; | |
| | 35 | they ate up every green thing in their land, ate up the produce of their soil. | |
| | 36 | Then he struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their manhood. | |
| | 37 | He brought out Israel, laden with silver and gold, and from among their tribes no one faltered. | |
| | 38 | Egypt was glad when they left, because dread of Israel had fallen on them. | |
| | 39 | He spread out a cloud as a covering, and a fire to give light at night. | |
| | 40 | They asked, and he brought them quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven. | |
| | 41 | He opened the rock, and water gushed out; like a river it flowed in the desert. | |
| | 42 | For he remembered his holy promise given to his servant Abraham. | |
| | 43 | He brought out his people with rejoicing, his chosen ones with shouts of joy; | |
| | 44 | he gave them the lands of the nations, and they fell heir to what others had toiled for-- | |
| | 45 | that they might keep his precepts and observe his laws. Praise the LORD. | |
