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¹ Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name; make known his doings among the peoples.² Sing unto him, sing praises unto him; talk ye of all his marvelous works.³ Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.⁴ Seek ye the LORD and his strength; seek his face evermore.⁵ Remember his marvelous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;⁶ O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.⁷ He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth.

⁸ He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations;⁹ The covenant which he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;¹⁰ And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute, to Israel for an everlasting covenant:¹¹ Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:¹² When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and sojourners in it;¹³ And they went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.¹⁴ He suffered no man to do them wrong; yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;¹⁵ Saying, Touch not mine anointed ones, and do my prophets no harm.¹⁶ And he called for a famine upon the land; he brake the whole staff of bread.¹⁷ He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a servant:¹⁸ His feet they hurt with fetters; he was laid in chains of iron:¹⁹ Until the time that his word came to pass; the word of the LORD tried him.²⁰ The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.²¹ He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:²² To bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his senators wisdom.²³ Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.²⁴ And he increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.

²⁵ He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.²⁶ He sent Moses his servant, and Aaron whom he had chosen.²⁷ They set among them his signs, and wonders in the land of Ham.²⁸ He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his words.²⁹ He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.³⁰ Their land swarmed with frogs, in the chambers of their kings.³¹ He spake, and there came swarms of flies, and lice in all their borders.³² He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.³³ He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their borders.³⁴ He spake, and the locust came, and the cankerworm, and that without number,³⁵ And did eat up every herb in their land, and did eat up the fruit of their ground.³⁶ He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.³⁷ And he brought them forth with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among his tribes.³⁸ Egypt was glad when they departed; for the fear of them had fallen upon them.³⁹ He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.⁴⁰ They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.⁴¹ He opened the rock, and waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.⁴² For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham his servant.⁴³ And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with singing.⁴⁴ And he gave them the lands of the nations; and they took the labour of the peoples in possession:⁴⁵ That they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise ye the LORD.