Read the Bible

The LORD'S Wonderful Works in Behalf of Israel.

¹ O ^(C1)give thanks to the LORD, ^(C2)call upon His name;
^(C3)Make known His deeds among the people.

² Sing to Him, ^(C1)sing praises to Him;
^(C2)Speak of all His wonderful acts and devoutly praise them.

³ Glory in His holy name;
Let the ^(C1)hearts of those who seek and require the LORD as their most essential need rejoice.

⁴ Seek and deeply long for the LORD and ^(C1)His strength His power, His might;
^(C2)Seek and deeply long for His face and His presence continually.

⁵ Remember with awe and gratitude the ^(C1)wonderful things which He has done,
His amazing deeds and the ^(C2)judgments uttered by His mouth on His enemies, as in Egypt, ^(VR1)

⁶ O you offspring of ^(C1)Abraham, His servant,
O you sons of ^(C2)Jacob, His ^(C3)chosen ones!

⁷ He is the LORD our God;
His ^(C1)judgments are in all the earth.

⁸ He has ^(C1)remembered His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded and established to a ^(F1)(C2)thousand generations,

⁹ The ^(C1)covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His ^(C2)sworn oath to Isaac, ^(VR1)

¹⁰ Which He ^(C1)confirmed to Jacob as a statute,
To Israel as an everlasting covenant,

¹¹ Saying, "^(C1)To you I will give the land of Canaan
As the measured ^(C2)portion of your inheritance."

¹² When there were only a ^(C1)few men in number,
Very few in fact, and ^(C2)strangers in it;

¹³ And they wandered from one nation to another,
From one kingdom to another people,

¹⁴ He ^(C1)allowed no man to oppress them;
He ^(C2)rebuked kings for their sakes, saying, ^(VR1)

¹⁵ "^(C1)Do not touch My anointed ones,
And do My prophets no harm." ^(VR1)

¹⁶ And He ^(C1)called for a famine upon the land of Egypt;
He ^(F1)(C2)cut off every source of bread. ^(VR1)

¹⁷ He ^(C1)sent a man before them,
Joseph, who was ^(C2)sold as a slave. ^(VR1)

¹⁸ His ^(C1)feet they hurt with shackles;
^(F1)He was put in chains of iron,

¹⁹ Until the time that his ^(C1)word of prophecy regarding his brothers came true,
The word of the LORD ^(C2)tested and refined him.

²⁰ The ^(C1)king sent and released him,
The ruler of the peoples of Egypt, and set him free.

²¹ He ^(C1)made Joseph lord of his house
And ruler of all his possessions, ^(VR1)

²² To imprison his princes at ^(C1)his will,
That he might teach his elders wisdom.

^23 (C1)Israel also came into Egypt;
Thus Jacob ^(C2)sojourned in the land of Ham. ^(VR1)

²⁴ There the LORD ^(C1)greatly increased the number of His people,
And made them more powerful than their enemies.

²⁵ He ^(C1)turned the heart of the Egyptians to hate His people,
To ^(C2)deal craftily with His servants.

²⁶ He ^(C1)sent Moses His servant,
And ^(C2)Aaron, whom He had chosen.

²⁷ They ^(C1)exhibited His wondrous signs among them,
Great miracles in the land of Ham (Egypt).

²⁸ He ^(C1)sent thick, oppressive darkness and made the land dark;
And Moses and Aaron did not ^(C2)rebel against His words. ^(VR1)

²⁹ He ^(C1)turned Egypt's waters into blood
And caused their fish to die. ^(VR1)

³⁰ Their land swarmed with ^(C1)frogs,
Even in the ^(C2)chambers of their kings. ^(VR1)

³¹ He spoke, and there came ^(C1)swarms of flies
And ^(C2)gnats in all their territory. ^(VR1)

³² He gave them ^(C1)hail for rain,
With flaming fire in their land. ^(VR1)

³³ He ^(C1)struck their vines also and their fig trees,
And shattered the ice-laden trees of their territory. ^(VR1)

³⁴ He spoke, and the migratory ^(C1)locusts came,
And the young locusts, even without number, ^(VR1)

³⁵ And ate up all the vegetation in their land,
And devoured the fruit of their ground.

³⁶ He also ^(C1)struck down all the firstborn in their land,
The ^(C2)first fruits and chief substance of all their strength. ^(VR1)

³⁷ He brought the sons of Israel out of Egypt with ^(C1)silver and gold,
And among their tribes there was not one who stumbled. ^(VR1)

³⁸ Egypt was ^(C1)glad when they departed,
For the ^(C2)dread and fear of them had fallen on the Egyptians. ^(VR1)

³⁹ The LORD spread a ^(C1)cloud as a covering by day,
And a ^(C2)fire to illumine the night. ^(VR1)

⁴⁰ The Israelites ^(C1)asked, and He brought ^(C2)quail,
And satisfied them with the ^(C3)bread of heaven. ^(VR1)

⁴¹ He opened the rock and ^(C1)water flowed out;
It ran in the dry places like a river. ^(VR1)

⁴² For He ^(C1)remembered His holy word
To Abraham His servant; ^(VR1)

⁴³ He brought out His people with joy,
And His chosen ones with a joyful ^(C1)shout,

⁴⁴ He ^(C1)gave them the lands of the nations of Canaan,
So that they ^(C2)would possess the fruits of those peoples' labor, ^(VR1)

⁴⁵ So that they might ^(C1)observe His precepts
And keep His laws obediently accepting and honoring and valuing them.
Praise the LORD! (Hallelujah!)