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¹ Give thanks to YHWH—call on His Name, || Make His acts known among the peoples.² Sing to Him—sing praise to Him, || Meditate on all His wonders.³ Boast yourselves in His Holy Name, || The heart of those seeking YHWH rejoices.⁴ Seek YHWH and His strength, || Seek His face continually.⁵ Remember His wonders that He did, || His signs and the judgments of His mouth.⁶ O seed of Abraham, His servant, || O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.⁷ He [is] our God YHWH, || His judgments [are] in all the earth.

⁸ He has remembered His covenant for all time, || The word He commanded to one thousand generations,⁹ That He has made with Abraham, || And His oath to Isaac,¹⁰ And establishes it to Jacob for a statute, || To Israel—a perpetual covenant,¹¹ Saying, "I give the land of Canaan to you, || The portion of your inheritance,"¹² In their being few in number, || But a few, and sojourners in it.¹³ And they go up and down, from nation to nation, || From a kingdom to another people.¹⁴ He has not permitted any to oppress them || And He reproves kings for their sakes.¹⁵ "Do not strike against My anointed, || And do no evil to My prophets."¹⁶ And He calls a famine on the land, || He has broken the whole staff of bread.¹⁷ He has sent a man before them, || Joseph has been sold for a servant.¹⁸ They have afflicted his feet with chains, || Iron has entered his soul,¹⁹ Until the time of the coming of His word || The saying of YHWH has tried him.²⁰ The king has sent, and looses him, || The ruler of the peoples, and draws him out.²¹ He has made him lord of his house, || And ruler over all his possessions.²² To bind his chiefs at his pleasure, || And he makes his elderly wise.²³ And Israel comes into Egypt, || And Jacob has sojourned in the land of Ham.²⁴ And He makes His people very fruitful, || And makes it mightier than its adversaries.

²⁵ He turned their heart to hate His people, || To conspire against His servants.²⁶ He has sent His servant Moses, || Aaron whom He had fixed on.²⁷ They have set among them the matters of His signs, || And wonders in the land of Ham.²⁸ He has sent darkness, and it is dark, || And they have not provoked His word.²⁹ He has turned their waters to blood, || And puts their fish to death.³⁰ Their land has teemed [with] frogs, || In the inner chambers of their kings.³¹ He has commanded, and the beetle comes, || Lice into all their border.³² He has made their showers hail, || A flaming fire [is] in their land.³³ And He strikes their vine and their fig, || And shatters the trees of their border.³⁴ He has commanded, and the locust comes, || And the cankerworm—innumerable,³⁵ And it consumes every herb in their land, || And it consumes the fruit of their ground.³⁶ And He strikes every firstborn in their land, || The first-fruit of all their strength,³⁷ And brings them out with silver and gold, || And there is not a feeble one in its tribes.³⁸ Egypt has rejoiced in their going forth, || For their fear had fallen on them.³⁹ He has spread a cloud for a covering, || And fire to enlighten the night.⁴⁰ They have asked, and He brings quails, || And satisfies them [with] bread of the heavens.⁴¹ He has opened a rock, and waters flow, || They have gone on in dry places—a river.⁴² For He has remembered His holy word, || With His servant Abraham,⁴³ And He brings forth His people with joy, || His chosen ones with singing.⁴⁴ And He gives to them the lands of nations, || And they possess the labor of peoples,⁴⁵ That they may observe His statutes, || And may keep His laws. Praise YHWH!