Глава 105

  • 1. Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples.
  • 2. Sing to him, sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works.
  • 3. Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
  • 4. Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
  • 5. Remember his marvelous works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
  • 6. you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
  • 7. He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.
  • 8. He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
  • 9. the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,
  • 10. and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute; to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
  • 11. saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;"
  • 12. when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
  • 13. They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.
  • 14. He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
  • 15. "Don't touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!"
  • 16. He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.
  • 17. He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.
  • 18. They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,
  • 19. until the time that his word happened, and Yahweh's word proved him true.
  • 20. The king sent and freed him; even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.
  • 21. He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions;
  • 22. to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.
  • 23. Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
  • 24. He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.
  • 25. He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.
  • 26. He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
  • 27. They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
  • 28. He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn't rebel against his words.
  • 29. He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish.
  • 30. Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the chambers of their kings.
  • 31. He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders.
  • 32. He gave them hail for rain, with lightning in their land.
  • 33. He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.
  • 34. He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, without number,
  • 35. ate up every plant in their land; and ate up the fruit of their ground.
  • 36. He struck also all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their manhood.
  • 37. He brought them forth with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes.
  • 38. Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen on them.
  • 39. He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.
  • 40. They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.
  • 41. He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.
  • 42. For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.
  • 43. He brought forth his people with joy, his chosen with singing.
  • 44. He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
  • 45. that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!