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¹ Give ye thanks to Yahweh, Call upon his Name, Make known, among the peoples, his doings;² Sing ye to him, Make ye music to him, Speak ye of all his wonders.³ Make your boast in his holy Name, Joyful be the heart of them who are seeking Yahweh.⁴ Search out Yahweh and his strength, Seek diligently his face at all times.⁵ Remember his wonders which he hath done, His portents, and the just decisions of his mouth.⁶ O ye Seed of Abraham - his servants, Sons of Jacob - his chosen ones:⁷ Yahweh himself, is our God, Through all the land, are his just decision.

⁸ He hath remembered, unto times age-abiding, his covenant, The word he commanded, to a thousand generations;⁹ Which he solemnised with Abraham, and his oath, to Isaac;¹⁰ And confirmed if unto Jacob for a statute, To Israel, as a covenant age-abiding;¹¹ Saying, To thee, will I give the land of Canaan, As your inherited portion;¹² While as yet they were men easily counted, - A very few, and sojourners therein;¹³ And they wandered from nation to nation, From a kingdom, to another people.¹⁴ He suffered no son of earth to oppress them, And reproved - for their sakes - even kings!¹⁵ Ye may not touch mine Anointed ones, And, to my Prophets, may ye do no wrong.¹⁶ Then called he a famine over the and, All the staff of bread, he brake;¹⁷ He sent before them a man, For a slave, was he sold - even Joseph;¹⁸ They forced, into a fetter, his foot, Into the iron, entered his soul;¹⁹ Until the time when his word came to pass, Speech of Yahweh, proved him;²⁰ The king sent, and set him free, One having dominion over peoples, yet loosed he his bonds;²¹ He appointed him lord to his household, And one having dominion over all he possessed;²² That he might bind his rulers as he pleased, And, his elders, he might embue with wisdom.²³ So Israel came into Egypt, And, Jacob, sojourned in the land of Ham;²⁴ And he made his people exceeding fruitful, - And caused them to become stronger than their adversaries.

²⁵ He let them turn their heart - To hate his people, To deal treacherously with his servants;²⁶ He sent Moses his servant, Aaron, whom he had chosen.²⁷ He set among them his threatening signs, And his wonders, in the land of Ham;²⁸ He sent darkness, and made it dark, But they rebelled against his words;²⁹ He turned their waters into blood, And so caused their fish to die;³⁰ Their land swarmed with frogs, In the chambers of their kings!³¹ He spake, and there came in the gad-fly, Gnats, in all their bounds;³² He made their showers - hail, A fire flaming throughout their land;³³ And he smote their vines, and their fig-trees, And brake in pieces the trees of their bounds;³⁴ He spake - then came the swarming locust, - The devouring locust, and that without number;³⁵ And devoured all the herbage in their land, And devoured the fruit of their ground.³⁶ Then smote he every firstborn in their land, The beginning of all their strength;³⁷ Thus brought he them forth, with silver and gold, Nor was there, throughout his tribes, one that faltered;³⁸ Egypt rejoiced when they went out, For the dread of them had fallen upon them.³⁹ He spread out a cloud as a covering, And fire, to give light by night,⁴⁰ They asked, and he brought in the quail, - And, with the bread of the heavens, he satisfied them;⁴¹ He opened the rock, and there gushed forth waters, They flowed along, through parched places, as a river;⁴² For he remembered his holy word, With Abraham his servant.⁴³ Thus brought he forth his people with gladness, - With shouts of triumph, his chosen ones;⁴⁴ And gave them, the lands of the nations, And, of the toil of the peoples, took they possession:⁴⁵ In order that they might observe his statutes, And, over his laws, might keep watch, Praise ye Yah.