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¹ Give ye thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name; make known his acts among the peoples.

² Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him; meditate upon all his wondrous works.

³ Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek Jehovah.

⁴ Seek Jehovah and his strength, seek his face continually;

⁵ Remember his wondrous works which he hath done, his miracles and the judgments of his mouth:

⁶ Ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.

⁷ He, Jehovah, is our God; his judgments are in all the earth.

⁸ He is ever mindful of his covenant,—the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,—

⁹ Which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;

¹⁰ And he confirmed it unto Jacob for a statute, unto 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 a few men in number, of small account, and strangers in it.

¹³ And they went from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

¹⁴ He suffered no man to oppress them, and 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 broke the whole staff of bread.

¹⁷ He sent a man before them: Joseph was sold for a bondman.

¹⁸ They afflicted his feet with fetters; his soul came into irons;

¹⁹ Until the time when what he said came about: the word of Jehovah tried him.

²⁰ The king sent and loosed him—the ruler of peoples—and let him go free.

²¹ He made him lord of his house, and ruler over all his possessions:

²² To bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom.

²³ And Israel came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

²⁴ And he made his people exceeding fruitful, and made them mightier than their oppressors.

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 his signs among them, and miracles in the land of Ham.

²⁸ He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.

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

³⁰ Their land swarmed with frogs,—in the chambers of their kings.

³¹ He spoke, and there came dog-flies, [and] gnats in all their borders.

³² He gave them hail for rain, [and] flaming fire in their land;

³³ And he smote their vines and their fig-trees, and broke the trees of their borders.

³⁴ He spoke, and the locust came, and the cankerworm, even without number;

³⁵ And they devoured every herb in their land, and ate up the fruit of their ground.

³⁶ And he smote every firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their vigour.

³⁷ And he brought them forth with silver and gold; and there was not one feeble among their tribes.

³⁸ Egypt rejoiced at their departure; 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 forth; 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 gladness, his chosen with rejoicing;

⁴⁴ And he gave them the lands of the nations, and they took possession of the labour of the peoples:

⁴⁵ That they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Hallelujah!