Глава 105

  • 1. O giue thankes vnto the Lord, call vpon his name: make knowen his deeds among the people.
  • 2. Sing vnto him; sing Psalmes vnto him: talke yee of all his wondrous workes.
  • 3. Glory yee in his holy name: let the heart of them reioyce, that seeke the Lord.
  • 4. Seeke the Lord, and his strength: seeke his face euermore.
  • 5. Remember his maruellous workes, that hee hath done: his wonders, and the iudgements of his mouth,
  • 6. O yee seede of Abraham his seruant: yee children of Iacob his chosen.
  • 7. He is the Lord our God: his iudgements are in all the earth.
  • 8. He hath remembred his couenant for euer: the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
  • 9. Which couenant he made with Abraham, and his oath vnto Isaac:
  • 10. And confirmed the same vnto Iacob for a law: and to Israel for an euerlasting couenant:
  • 11. Saying, Unto thee will I giue the land of Canaan: the lot of your inheritance.
  • 12. When they were but a few men in number: yea very few, & strangers in it.
  • 13. When they went from one nation to another: from one kingdome to another people.
  • 14. He suffred no man to doe them wrong: yea he reproued kings for their sakes:
  • 15. Saying, Touch not mine anointed; and doe my Prophets no harme.
  • 16. Moreouer hee called for a famine vpon the land: he brake the whole staffe of bread.
  • 17. Hee sent a man before them: euen Ioseph, who was sold for a seruant.
  • 18. Whose feete they hurt with fetters: he was layd in iron.
  • 19. Untill the time that his word came: the word of the Lord tried him.
  • 20. The king sent and loosed him: euen the ruler of the people, and let him goe free.
  • 21. Hee made him lord of his house: and ruler of all his substance:
  • 22. To binde his princes at his pleasure: and teach his Senatours wisedome.
  • 23. Israel also came into Egypt: and Iacob soiourned in the land of Ham.
  • 24. And hee increased his people greatly: and made them stronger then their enemies.
  • 25. He turned their heart to hate his people: to deale subtilly with his seruants.
  • 26. Hee sent Moses his seruant: and Aaron whom he had chosen.
  • 27. They shewed his signes among them: and wonders in the land of Ham.
  • 28. Hee sent darknesse, and made it darke: and they rebelled not against his word.
  • 29. Hee turned their waters into blood: and slew their fish.
  • 30. The land brought foorth frogs in abundance: in the chambers of their kings.
  • 31. He spake, and there came diuers sorts of flies: and lice in all their coasts.
  • 32. Hee gaue them haile for raine: and flaming fire in their laud.
  • 33. Hee smote their Uines also, and their figge trees: and brake the trees of their coastes.
  • 34. He spake, and the locusts came: and catterpillers, and that without number,
  • 35. And did eate vp all the herbes in their land: and deuoured the fruite of their ground.
  • 36. Hee smote also all the first borne in their land: the chiefe of all their strength.
  • 37. Hee brought them foorth also with siluer and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.
  • 38. Egypt was glad when they departed: for the feare of them fell vpon them.
  • 39. He spread a cloud for a couering: and fire to giue light in the night.
  • 40. The people asked, and he brought quailes: and satisfied them with the bread of heauen.
  • 41. He opened the rocke, and the waters gushed out: they ranne in the dry places like a riuer.
  • 42. For he remembred his holy promise: and Abraham his seruant.
  • 43. And he brought forth his people with ioy: and his chosen with gladnesse:
  • 44. And gaue them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people:
  • 45. That they might obserue his statutes, and keepe his Lawes, Praise ye the Lord.