Praise to Yahweh for His Work on Behalf of Israel

• make known his deeds among the peoples.
• 2 Sing to him; sing praises concerning him; tell of all his wonderful works.
• 3 Boast about his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
• 4 Make supplication to Yahweh and his might; seek his face continually.
• 5 Remember his wonders that he has done, his signs and the judgments of his mouth,
• 6 O offspring of Abraham his servant, you descendants[fn] of Jacob, his chosen ones.
• 7 He is Yahweh our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
• 8 He remembers his covenant forever, the word that he commanded
• for a thousand generations,
• 9 that he made with Abraham, and by his oath swore to Isaac.
• 10 He then confirmed it to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
• 11 saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan as the allotment that is your[fn] inheritance.”
• 12 When they were few in number[fn]— a trifle—and were sojourners in it,
• 13 and they wandered about among the nations ,[fn] from one kingdom to another people,
• 14 he allowed no one to oppress them, and he rebuked kings on account of them,
• 15 “Do not touch my anointed ones, nor harm my prophets.”
• 16 Then he called for a famine upon the land; he broke every supply[fn] of bread.
• 17 He sent a man on ahead of them; Joseph was sold as a slave.
• 18 They clamped[fn] his feet in fetters.[fn] His neck[fn] went into irons.[fn]
• 19 Until the time his word came about, the word of Yahweh tested[fn] him.
• 20 The king sent and he freed him; the ruler of the peoples sent and let him loose.
• 21 He made him lord of his house and ruler of all his possessions,
• 22 to obligate[fn] his officials as he saw fit[fn] and teach his elders wisdom.
• 23 Then Israel came to Egypt, and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Ham.
• 24 And he[fn] made his people very fruitful. He also made them[fn] stronger than their[fn] enemies.
• 25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal deceitfully against his servants.
• 26 He sent his servant Moses, together with Aaron whom he had chosen.
• 27 They set before them the words concerning his signs and portents in the land of Ham.
• 28 He sent darkness and made it dark, and they did not rebel against his words.
• 29 He turned their waters into blood and it killed their fish.
• 30 Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the chambers of their kings.
• 31 He spoke, and there came flies and gnats throughout all their territory.[fn]
• 32 He gave hail for their rains and the fire of lightning in their land.
• 33 And he struck their vines and fig trees, and shattered the trees of their territory.
• 34 He spoke and there came locusts and young locusts without number.
• 35 And they ate up all the vegetation in their land, and they ate up the fruit of their ground.
• 36 And he struck down all the firstborn in their land, the first of all their virility.
• 37 Then he brought them out with silver and gold, and there was none among his tribes who stumbled.
• 38 Egypt was glad when they departed, because the fear of them[fn] had fallen upon them.
• 39 He spread out a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light at night.
• 40 They[fn] asked, and he brought quail, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
• 41 He opened the rock and waters flowed; they coursed[fn] through the dry places like a river.
• 42 For he remembered his holy promise ;[fn] he remembered Abraham his servant.
• 43 And so he brought out his people with joy, his chosen ones with rejoicing.
• 44 And he gave to them the lands of the nations, and they inherited the labor of the peoples,
• 45 so that they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws.
• Praise Yah.[fn]