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¹ Oh ^(a)give thanks to the Lord, ^(b)call upon His name;
^(c)Make known His deeds among the peoples.
² Sing to Him, ^(d)sing praises to Him;
^[a](e)Speak of all His ^[b]wonders.
^3 [c]Glory in His holy name;
Let the ^(f)heart of those who seek the Lord be glad.
⁴ Seek the Lord and ^(g)His strength;
^(h)Seek His face continually.
⁵ Remember His ^[d](i)wonders which He has done,
His marvels and the ^(j)judgments ^[e]uttered by His mouth,
⁶ O seed of ^(k)Abraham, His servant,
O sons of ^(l)Jacob, His ^(m)chosen ones!
⁷ He is the Lord our God;
His ⁽ⁿ⁾judgments are in all the earth.

⁸ He has ^(o)remembered His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded to a ^(p)thousand generations,
⁹ The ^(q)covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His ^(r)oath to Isaac.
¹⁰ Then He ^(s)confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,
To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
¹¹ Saying, "^(t)To you I will give the land of Canaan
As the ^[f](u)portion of your inheritance,"
¹² When they were only a ^(v)few men in number,
Very few, and ^(w)strangers in it.
¹³ And they wandered about from nation to nation,
From one kingdom to another people.
¹⁴ He ^(x)permitted no man to oppress them,
And He ^(y)reproved kings for their sakes:
¹⁵ "^(z)Do not touch My anointed ones,
And do My prophets no harm."

¹⁶ And He ^(aa)called for a famine upon the land;
He ^(ab)broke the whole staff of bread.
¹⁷ He ^(ac)sent a man before them,
Joseph, who was ^(ad)sold as a slave.
¹⁸ They afflicted his ^(ae)feet with fetters,
^[g]He himself was laid in irons;
¹⁹ Until the time that his ^(af)word came to pass,
The word of the Lord ^[h](ag)tested him.
²⁰ The ^(ah)king sent and released him,
The ruler of peoples, and set him free.
²¹ He ^(ai)made him lord of his house
And ruler over all his possessions,
²² To ^[i]imprison his princes ^[j](aj)at will,
That he might teach his elders wisdom.
^23 (ak)Israel also came into Egypt;
Thus Jacob ^(al)sojourned in the land of Ham.
²⁴ And He ^(am)caused His people to be very fruitful,
And made them stronger than their adversaries.

²⁵ He ^(an)turned their heart to hate His people,
To ^(ao)deal craftily with His servants.
²⁶ He ^(ap)sent Moses His servant,
And ^(aq)Aaron, whom He had chosen.
²⁷ They ^[k](ar)performed His wondrous acts among them,
And miracles in the land of Ham.
²⁸ He ^(as)sent darkness and made it dark;
And they did not ^(at)rebel against His words.
²⁹ He ^(au)turned their waters into blood
And caused their fish to die.
³⁰ Their land swarmed with ^(av)frogs
Even in the ^(aw)chambers of their kings.
³¹ He spoke, and there came a ^(ax)swarm of flies
And ^(ay)gnats in all their territory.
³² He ^[l]gave them ^(az)hail for rain,
And flaming fire in their land.
³³ He ^(ba)struck down their vines also and their fig trees,
And shattered the trees of their territory.
³⁴ He spoke, and ^(bb)locusts came,
And young locusts, even without number,
³⁵ And ate up all vegetation in their land,
And ate up the fruit of their ground.
³⁶ He also ^(bc)struck down all the firstborn in their land,
The ^(bd)first fruits of all their vigor.

³⁷ Then He brought them out with ^(be)silver and gold,
And among His tribes there was not one who stumbled.
³⁸ Egypt was ^(bf)glad when they departed,
For the ^(bg)dread of them had fallen upon them.
³⁹ He spread a ^(bh)cloud for a ^[m]covering,
And ^(bi)fire to illumine by night.
^40 [n]They ^(bj)asked, and He brought ^(bk)quail,
And satisfied them with the ^[o](bl)bread of heaven.
⁴¹ He opened the ^[p]rock and ^(bm)water flowed out;
^[q]It ran in the dry places like a river.
⁴² For He ^(bn)remembered His holy word
With Abraham His servant;
⁴³ And He brought forth His people with joy,
His chosen ones with a joyful ^(bo)shout.
⁴⁴ He ^(bp)gave them also the lands of the ^[r]nations,
That they ^(bq)might take possession of the fruit of the peoples' labor,
⁴⁵ So that they might ^(br)keep His statutes
And observe His laws,
^[s]Praise ^[t]the Lord!