Глава 105

  • 1. Prayse the Lord, and call vpon his Name: declare his workes among the people.
  • 2. Sing vnto him, sing prayse vnto him, and talke of all his wonderous workes.
  • 3. Reioyce in his holy Name: let the heart of them that seeke the Lord, reioyce.
  • 4. Seeke the Lord and his strength: seeke his face continually.
  • 5. Remember his marueilous woorkes, that he hath done, his wonders and the iudgements of his mouth,
  • 6. Ye seede of Abraham his seruant, ye children of Iaakob, which are his elect.
  • 7. He is the Lorde our God: his iudgements are through all the earth.
  • 8. He hath alway remembred his couenant & promes, that he made to a thousand generations,
  • 9. Euen that which he made with Abraham, and his othe vnto Izhak:
  • 10. And since hath confirmed it to Iaakob for a lawe, and to Israel for an euerlasting couenant,
  • 11. Saying, Vnto thee will I giue the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance.
  • 12. Albeit they were fewe in nomber, yea, very fewe, and strangers in the land,
  • 13. And walked about from nation to nation, from one kingdome to another people,
  • 14. Yet suffered he no man to doe them wrong, but reprooued Kings for their sakes, saying,
  • 15. Touche not mine anointed, and doe my Prophets no harme.
  • 16. Moreouer, he called a famine vpon ye land, and vtterly brake the staffe of bread.
  • 17. But he sent a man before them: Ioseph was solde for a slaue.
  • 18. They helde his feete in the stockes, and he was laide in yrons,
  • 19. Vntill his appointed time came, and the counsell of the Lord had tryed him.
  • 20. The King sent and loosed him: euen the Ruler of the people deliuered him.
  • 21. He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance,
  • 22. That he shoulde binde his princes vnto his will, and teach his Ancients wisedome.
  • 23. Then Israel came to Egypt, and Iaakob was a stranger in the land of Ham.
  • 24. And he increased his people exceedingly, and made them stronger then their oppressours.
  • 25. He turned their heart to hate his people, and to deale craftily with his seruants.
  • 26. Then sent he Moses his seruant, and Aaron whom he had chosen.
  • 27. They shewed among them the message of his signes, and wonders in the land of Ham.
  • 28. He sent darkenesse, and made it darke: and they were not disobedient vnto his commission.
  • 29. He turned their waters into blood, and slewe their fish.
  • 30. Their land brought foorth frogs, euen in their Kings chambers.
  • 31. He spake, and there came swarmes of flies and lice in all their quarters.
  • 32. He gaue them haile for raine, and flames of fire in their land.
  • 33. He smote their vines also and their figge trees, and brake downe the trees in their coastes.
  • 34. He spake, and the grashoppers came, and caterpillers innumerable,
  • 35. And did eate vp all the grasse in their land, and deuoured the fruite of their ground.
  • 36. He smote also all the first borne in their land, euen the beginning of all their strength.
  • 37. He brought them forth also with siluer and golde, and there was none feeble among their tribes.
  • 38. Egypt was glad at their departing: for the feare of them had fallen vpon them.
  • 39. He spred a cloude to be a couering, and fire to giue light in the night.
  • 40. They asked, and he brought quailes, and he filled them with the bread of heauen.
  • 41. He opened the rocke, and the waters flowed out, and ranne in the drye places like a riuer.
  • 42. For he remembred his holy promes to 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 tooke the labours of the people in possession,
  • 45. That they might keepe his statutes, and obserue his Lawes. Prayse ye the Lord.