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¹ Give thanks to the Lord, and call upon his name; declare his works among the heathen. ² Sing to him, yea, sing praises to him: tell forth all his wonderful works. ³ Glory in his holy name: let the heart of them that seek the Lord rejoice. ⁴ Seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened; seek his face continually. ⁵ Remember his wonderful works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth; ⁶ ye seed of Abraam, his servants, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones. ⁷ He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth.

⁸ He has remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded for a thousand generation: ⁹ which he established as a covenant to Abraam, and he remembered his oath to Isaac. ¹⁰ And he established it to Jacob for an ordinance, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant; ¹¹ saying To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the line of your inheritance: ¹² when they were few in number, very few, and sojourners in it. ¹³ And they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people. ¹⁴ He suffered no man to wrong them; and he rebuked kings for their sakes: ¹⁵ saying, Touch not my anointed ones; and do my prophets no harm. ¹⁶ Moreover he called for a famine upon the land; he broke the whole support of bread. ¹⁷ He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a slave. ¹⁸ They hurt his feet with fetters; his soul passed into iron, ¹⁹ until the time that his cause came on; the word of the Lord tried him as fire. ²⁰ The king sent and loosed him; even the prince of the people, and let him go free. ²¹ He made him Lord over his house, and ruler of all his substance; ²² to chastise his rulers at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom. ²³ Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the land of Cham. ²⁴ And he increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their enemies.

²⁵ And he turned their heart to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants. ²⁶ He sent fort Moses his servant, and Aaron whom he had chosen. ²⁷ He established among them his signs, and his wonders in the land of Cham. ²⁸ He sent forth darkness, and made it dark; yet they rebelled against his words. ²⁹ He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish. ³⁰ Their land produced frogs abundantly, in the chambers of their kings. ³¹ He spoke, and the dog-fly came, and lice in all their coasts. ³² He turned their rain into hail, and sent flaming fire in their land. ³³ And he smote their vines and their fig trees; and broke every tree of their coast. ³⁴ He spoke, and the locust came, and caterpillars innumerable, ³⁵ and devoured all the grass in their land, and devoured the fruit of the ground. ³⁶ He smote also every first-born of their land, the first-fruits of all their labour. ³⁷ And he brought them out with silver and gold; and there was not a feeble one among their tribes. ³⁸ Egypt rejoiced at their departing; for the fear of them fell upon them. ³⁹ He spread out a cloud for a covering to them, and fire to give them light by night. ⁴⁰ They asked, and the quail came, and he satisfied them with the bread of heaven. ⁴¹ He clave the rock, and the waters flowed, rivers ran in dry places. ⁴² For he remembered his holy word, which he promised to Abraam his servant. ⁴³ And he brought out his people with exultation, and his chosen with joy; ⁴⁴ and gave them the lands of the heathen; and they inherited the labours of the people; ⁴⁵ that they might keep his ordinances, and diligently seek his law.