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¹ Give thanks to Yahweh; proclaim his name;
make known his deeds among the peoples.
² Sing to him; sing praises concerning him;
tell of all his wonderful works.
³ Boast about his holy name.
Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
⁴ Make supplication to Yahweh and his might;
seek his face continually.
⁵ Remember his wonders that he has done,
his signs and the judgments of his mouth,
⁶ O offspring of Abraham his servant,
you descendants^[a] of Jacob, his chosen ones.
⁷ He is Yahweh our God;
his judgments are in all the earth.
⁸ He remembers his covenant forever,
the word that he commanded
for a thousand generations,
⁹ that he made with Abraham,
and by his oath swore to Isaac.
¹⁰ He then confirmed it to Jacob as a statute,
to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
¹¹ saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan
as the allotment that is your^[b] inheritance."
¹² When they were few in number^[c]—
a trifle—and were sojourners in it,
¹³ and they wandered about among the nations,^[d]
from one kingdom to another people,
¹⁴ he allowed no one to oppress them,
and he rebuked kings on account of them,
¹⁵ "Do not touch my anointed ones,
nor harm my prophets."
¹⁶ Then he called for a famine upon the land;
he broke every supply^[e] of bread.
¹⁷ He sent a man on ahead of them;
Joseph was sold as a slave.
¹⁸ They clamped^[f] his feet in fetters.^[g]
His neck^[h] went into irons.^[i]
19 Until the time his word came about,
the word of Yahweh tested^[j] him.
²⁰ The king sent and he freed him;
the ruler of the peoples sent and let him loose.
²¹ He made him lord of his house
and ruler of all his possessions,
²² to obligate^[k] his officials as he saw fit^[l]
and teach his elders wisdom.
²³ Then Israel came to Egypt,
and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Ham.
²⁴ And he^[m] made his people very fruitful.
He also made them^[n] stronger than their^[o] enemies.
²⁵ He turned their heart to hate his people,
to deal deceitfully against his servants.
²⁶ He sent his servant Moses,
together with Aaron whom he had chosen.
²⁷ They set before them the words concerning his signs
and portents in the land of Ham.
²⁸ He sent darkness and made it dark,
and they did not rebel against his words.
²⁹ He turned their waters into blood
and it killed their fish.
³⁰ Their land swarmed with frogs,
even in the chambers of their kings.
³¹ He spoke, and there came flies
and gnats throughout all their territory.^[p]
32 He gave hail for their rains
and the fire of lightning in their land.
³³ And he struck their vines and fig trees,
and shattered the trees of their territory.
³⁴ He spoke and there came locusts
and young locusts without number.
³⁵ And they ate up all the vegetation in their land,
and they ate up the fruit of their ground.
³⁶ And he struck down all the firstborn in their land,
the first of all their virility.
³⁷ Then he brought them out with silver and gold,
and there was none among his tribes who stumbled.
³⁸ Egypt was glad when they departed,
because the fear of them^[q] had fallen upon them.
³⁹ He spread out a cloud for a covering,
and fire to give light at night.
⁴⁰ They^[r] asked, and he brought quail,
and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
⁴¹ He opened the rock and waters flowed;
they coursed^[s] through the dry places like a river.
⁴² For he remembered his holy promise;^[t]
he remembered Abraham his servant.
⁴³ And so he brought out his people with joy,
his chosen ones with rejoicing.
⁴⁴ And he gave to them the lands of the nations,
and they inherited the labor of the peoples,
⁴⁵ so that they might observe his statutes,
and keep his laws.
Praise Yah.^[u]