Psalm 105

Tell of His Wonders// 1 Chronicles 16:7–22

¹Give thanks to Yahweh, call upon His name;

make known His deeds among the nations.

• PS 105:1[NOTE]ALSO IN 1 CHRONICLES 16. The first part of this psalm, 105:1 to 15, was sung when David brought the ark to Jerusalem, 1 Chronicles 16:8 to 22. Psalm 96 and parts of 106 are there too.

²Sing to Him, sing praises to Him;

tell of all His wonders.

³Glory in His holy name;

let the hearts of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.

⁴Seek out Yahweh and His strength;

seek His face always.

⁵Remember the wonders He has done,

His marvels, and the judgments He has pronounced,

⁶O offspring of His servant Abraham,

O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.

⁷He is Yahweh our God;

His judgments carry throughout the earth.

⁸He remembers His covenant forever,

the word He ordained for a thousand generations—

⁹the covenant He made with Abraham,

and the oath He swore to Isaac.

¹⁰He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree,

to Israel as an everlasting covenant:

¹¹“I will give you the land of Canaan

as the portion of your inheritance.”

¹²When they were few in number,

few indeed, and strangers in the land,

¹³they wandered from nation to nation,

from one kingdom to another.

¹⁴He let no man oppress them;

He rebuked kings on their behalf:

¹⁵“Do not touch My anointed ones!

Do no harm to My prophets!”

• PS 105:15[NOTE]MY ANOINTED ONES. Here it means Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, whom God protected from kings like Pharaoh and Abimelech, Genesis 12:17 and 20:3.

¹⁶He called down famine on the land

and cut off all their supplies of food.

¹⁷He sent a man before them—

Joseph, sold as a slave.

¹⁸They bruised his feet with shackles

and placed his neck in irons,

¹⁹until his prediction came true

and the word of Yahweh proved him right.

²⁰The king sent and released him;

the ruler of peoples set him free.

²¹He made him master of his household,

ruler over all his substance,

²²to instruct his princes as he pleased

and teach his elders wisdom.

²³Then Israel entered Egypt;

Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.

²⁴And Yahweh made His people very fruitful,

more numerous than their foes,

²⁵whose hearts He turned to hate His people,

to conspire against His servants.

²⁶He sent Moses His servant,

and Aaron, whom He had chosen.

²⁷They performed His miraculous signs among them,

and wonders in the land of Ham.

²⁸He sent darkness, and it became dark—

yet they defied His words.

²⁹He turned their waters to blood

and caused their fish to die.

³⁰Their land teemed with frogs,

even in their royal chambers.

³¹He spoke, and insects swarmed—

gnats throughout their country.

³²He gave them hail for rain,

with lightning throughout their land.

³³He struck their vines and fig trees

and shattered the trees of their country.

³⁴He spoke, and the locusts came—

young locusts without number.

³⁵They devoured every plant in their land

and consumed the produce of their soil.

³⁶Then He struck all the firstborn in their land,

the firstfruits of all their vigor.

³⁷He brought Israel out with silver and gold,

and none among His tribes stumbled.

³⁸Egypt was glad when they departed,

for the dread of Israel had fallen on them.

³⁹He spread a cloud as a covering

and a fire to light up the night.

⁴⁰They asked, and He brought quail

and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

⁴¹He opened a rock, and water gushed out;

it flowed like a river in the desert.

⁴²For He remembered His holy promise

to Abraham His servant.

⁴³He brought forth His people with rejoicing,

His chosen with shouts of joy.

⁴⁴He gave them the lands of the nations,

that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,

⁴⁵that they might keep His statutes

and obey His laws.

Hallelujah!