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The Loʀᴅ’s Wonderful Works in Behalf of Israel.
1 Oh
Agive thanks to the Loʀᴅ,
Bcall upon His name;
CMake known His deeds among the peoples.
2 Sing to Him,
Asing praises to Him;
1BSpeak of all His
2wonders.
3 1Glory in His holy name;
Let the
Aheart of those who seek the Loʀᴅ be glad.
4 Seek the Loʀᴅ and
AHis strength;
BSeek His face continually.
5 Remember His
1Awonders which He has done,
His marvels and the
Bjudgments
2uttered by His mouth,
6 O seed of
AAbraham, His servant,
O sons of
BJacob, His
Cchosen ones!
7 He is the Loʀᴅ our God;
His
Ajudgments are in all the earth.
8 He has
Aremembered His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded to a
Bthousand generations,
9 The Acovenant which He made with Abraham,
10 Then He
Aconfirmed it to Jacob for a statute,
To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
11 Saying, “
ATo you I will give the land of Canaan
As the
1Bportion of your inheritance,”
12 When they were only a
Afew men in number,
Very few, and
Bstrangers in it.
13 And they wandered about from nation to nation,
From one kingdom to another people.
14 He
Apermitted no man to oppress them,
And He
Breproved kings for their sakes:
15 “
ADo not touch My anointed ones,
And do My prophets no harm.”
16 And He
Acalled for a famine upon the land;
He
Bbroke the whole staff of bread.
17 He
Asent a man before them,
Joseph,
who was
Bsold as a slave.
18 They afflicted his
Afeet with fetters,
1He himself was laid in irons;
19 Until the time that his
Aword came to pass,
The word of the Loʀᴅ
1Btested him.
20 The
Aking sent and released him,
The ruler of peoples, and set him free.
21 He
Amade him lord of his house
And ruler over all his possessions,
22 To
1imprison his princes
2Aat will,
That he might teach his elders wisdom.
23 AIsrael also came into Egypt;
Thus Jacob
Bsojourned in the land of Ham.
24 And He
Acaused His people to be very fruitful,
And made them stronger than their adversaries.
25 He
Aturned their heart to hate His people,
To
Bdeal craftily with His servants.
26 He
Asent Moses His servant,
And BAaron, whom He had chosen.
27 They
1Aperformed His wondrous acts among them,
And miracles in the land of Ham.
28 He
Asent darkness and made
it dark;
And they did not
Brebel against His words.
29 He
Aturned their waters into blood
And caused their fish to die.
30 Their land swarmed with
Afrogs
Even in the
Bchambers of their kings.
31 He spoke, and there came a
Aswarm of flies
And Bgnats in all their territory.
32 He
1gave them
Ahail for rain,
And flaming fire in their land.
33 He
Astruck down their vines also and their fig trees,
And shattered the trees of their territory.
34 He spoke, and
Alocusts came,
And young locusts, even without number,
35 And ate up all vegetation in their land,
And ate up the fruit of their ground.
36 He also
Astruck down all the firstborn in their land,
The
Bfirst fruits of all their vigor.
37 Then He brought them out with
Asilver and gold,
And among His tribes there was not one who stumbled.
38 Egypt was
Aglad when they departed,
For the
Bdread of them had fallen upon them.
39 He spread a
Acloud for a
1covering,
And
Bfire to illumine by night.
40 1They
Aasked, and He brought
Bquail,
And satisfied them with the
2Cbread of heaven.
41 He opened the
1rock and
Awater flowed out;
2It ran in the dry places
like a river.
42 For He
Aremembered His holy word
With Abraham His servant;
43 And He brought forth His people with joy,
His chosen ones with a joyful
Ashout.
44 He
Agave them also the lands of the
1nations,
That they
Bmight take possession of
the fruit of the peoples’ labor,
45 So that they might
Akeep His statutes
And observe His laws,