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. |