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¹ Give thanks to Adonai! Call on his name!
Make his deeds known among the peoples.
² Sing to him, sing praises to him,
talk about all his wonders.
³ Glory in his holy name;
let those seeking Adonai have joyful hearts.
⁴ Seek Adonai and his strength;
always seek his presence.
⁵ Remember the wonders he has done,
his signs and his spoken rulings.

⁶ You descendants of Avraham his servant,
you offspring of Ya‘akov, his chosen ones,
⁷ he is Adonai our God!
His rulings are everywhere on earth.
⁸ He remembers his covenant forever,
the word he commanded to a thousand generations,
⁹ the covenant he made with Avraham,
the oath he swore to Yitz'chak,
¹⁰ and established as a law for Ya‘akov,
for Isra'el as an everlasting covenant:
¹¹ "To you I will give the land of Kena‘an
as your allotted heritage."

¹² When they were but few in number,
and not only few, but aliens there too,
¹³ wandering from nation to nation,
from this kingdom to that people,
¹⁴ he allowed no one to oppress them.
Yes, for their sakes he rebuked even kings:
¹⁵ "Don't touch my anointed ones
or do my prophets harm!"
¹⁶ He called down famine on the land,
broke off all their food supply,
¹⁷ but sent a man ahead of them —
Yosef, who was sold as a slave.
¹⁸ They shackled his feet with chains,
and they bound him in irons;
¹⁹ until the time when his word proved true,
God's utterance kept testing him.
²⁰ The king sent and had him released,
the ruler of peoples set him free;
²¹ he made him lord of his household,
in charge of all he owned,
²² correcting his officers as he saw fit
and teaching his counselors wisdom.

²³ Then Isra'el too came into Egypt,
Ya‘akov lived as an alien in the land of Ham.
²⁴ There God made his people very fruitful,
made them too numerous for their foes,
²⁵ whose hearts he turned to hate his people,
and treat his servants unfairly.

²⁶ He sent his servant Moshe
and Aharon, whom he had chosen.
²⁷ They worked his signs among them,
his wonders in the land of Ham.

²⁸ He sent darkness, and the land grew dark;
they did not defy his word.

²⁹ He turned their water into blood
and caused their fish to die.

³⁰ Their land swarmed with frogs,
even in the royal chambers.

³¹ He spoke, and there came swarms of insects
and lice throughout their land.

³² He gave them hail instead of rain,
with fiery [lightning] throughout their land.
³³ He struck their vines and fig trees,
shattering trees all over their country.

³⁴ He spoke, and locusts came,
also grasshoppers without number;
³⁵ they ate up everything green in their land,
devoured the fruit of their ground.
³⁶ He struck down all the firstborn in their land,
the firstfruits of all their strength.

³⁷ Then he led his people out,
laden with silver and gold;
among his tribes not one stumbled.
³⁸ Egypt was happy to have them leave,
because fear of [Isra'el] had seized them.

³⁹ He spread out a cloud to screen them off
and fire to give them light at night.
⁴⁰ When they asked, he brought them quails
and satisfied them with food from heaven.

⁴¹ He split a rock, and water gushed out,
flowing as a river over the dry ground,
⁴² for he remembered his holy promise
to his servant Avraham.

⁴³ He led out his people with joy,
his chosen ones with singing.
⁴⁴ Then he gave them the lands of the nations,
and they possessed what peoples had toiled to produce,
⁴⁵ in order to obey his laws
and follow his teachings.

Halleluyah!