Psalms 105

The Lord Can Be Trusted

¹Praise the Lord[#3 Macc 2.1.]

and pray in his name!

Tell everyone

what he has done.

²Sing praises to the Lord !

Tell about his miracles.

³Celebrate and worship

his holy name

with all your heart.

⁴Trust the Lord

and his mighty power.

⁵Remember his miracles

and all his wonders

and his fair decisions.

⁶You belong to the family

of Abraham, his servant;

you are his chosen ones,

the descendants of Jacob.

⁷The Lord is our God,

bringing justice

everywhere on earth.

⁸He will never forget

his agreement or his promises,

not in thousands of years.

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⁹God made an eternal promise[#Gn 12.7; 17.8; Gn 26.3.]

¹⁰to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,[#Gn 28.13.]

¹¹when he said, “I'll give you

the land of Canaan.”

¹²At the time there were

only a few of us,

and we were homeless.

¹³We wandered from nation

to nation, from one country

to another.

¹⁴God did not let anyone[#Gn 20.3-7.]

mistreat our people.

Instead he protected us

by punishing rulers

¹⁵and telling them,

“Don't touch my chosen leaders

or harm my prophets!”

¹⁶God kept crops from growing[#Gn 41.53-57.]

until food was scarce

everywhere in the land.

¹⁷But he had already sent Joseph,[#Gn 37.28; 45.5.]

sold as a slave into Egypt,

¹⁸with chains of iron[#Gn 39.20—40.23.]

around his legs and neck.

¹⁹Joseph remained a slave

until his own words

had come true,

and the Lord had finished

testing him.

²⁰Then the king of Egypt[#Gn 41.14.]

set Joseph free

²¹and put him in charge[#Gn 41.39-41.]

of everything he owned.

²²Joseph was in command

of the officials,

and he taught the leaders

how to use wisdom.

²³Jacob and his family[#Gn 46.5-7; Gn 47.11.]

came and settled in Egypt

as foreigners.

²⁴They were the Lord 's people,[#Ex 1.7-14.]

so he let them grow stronger

than their enemies.

²⁵They served the Lord ,

and he made the Egyptians plan

hateful things against them.

²⁶God sent his servant Moses.[#Ex 3.1—4.17.]

He also chose and sent Aaron

²⁷to his people in Egypt,

and they worked miracles

and wonders there.

²⁸Moses and Aaron obeyed God,[#Ex 10.21-23.]

and he sent darkness

to cover Egypt.

²⁹God turned their rivers[#Ex 7.17-21.]

into streams of blood,

and the fish all died.

³⁰Frogs were everywhere,[#Ex 8.1-6.]

even in the royal palace.

³¹When God gave the command,[#Ex 8.20-24; Ex 8.16,17.]

flies and gnats

swarmed all around.

³²In place of rain,[#Ex 9.22-25.]

God sent hailstones

and flashes of lightning.

³³He destroyed their grapevines

and their fig trees,

and he made splinters

of all the other trees.

³⁴God gave the command,[#Ex 10.12-15.]

and more grasshoppers came

than could be counted.

³⁵They ate every green plant

and all the crops that grew

in the land of Egypt.

³⁶Then God took the life[#Ex 12.29.]

of every first-born son.

³⁷When God led Israel from Egypt,[#Ex 12.33-36.]

they took silver and gold,

and no one was left behind.

³⁸The Egyptians were afraid

and gladly let them go.

³⁹God hid them under a cloud[#Ex 13.21,22.]

and guided them by fire

during the night.

⁴⁰When they asked for food,[#Ex 16.2-15.]

he sent more birds

than they could eat.

⁴¹God even split open a rock,[#Ex 17.1-7; Nu 20.2-13.]

and streams of water

gushed into the desert.

⁴²God never forgot

his sacred promise

to his servant Abraham.

⁴³When the Lord rescued

his chosen people from Egypt,

they celebrated with songs.

⁴⁴The Lord gave them the land[#Js 11.16-23.]

and everything else

the nations had worked for.

⁴⁵He did this so that his people

would obey all his laws.

Shout praises to the Lord !