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¹ (104-1) Give glory to the Lord, and call upon his name: declare his deeds among the Gentiles.² (104-2) Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate all his wondrous works.³ (104-3) Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.⁴ (104-4) Seek ye the lord, and be strengthened: seek his face evermore.⁵ (104-5) Remember his marvellous works which he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth.⁶ (104-6) O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen.⁷ (104-7) He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.

⁸ (104-8) He hath remembered his covenant for ever: the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.⁹ (104-9) Which he made to Abraham; and his oath to Isaac:¹⁰ (104-10) And he appointed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting testament:¹¹ (104-11) Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the lot of your inheritance.¹² (104-12) When they were but a small number: yea very few, and sojourners therein:¹³ (104-13) And they passed from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people.¹⁴ (104-14) He suffered no man to hurt them: and he reproved kings for their sakes.¹⁵ (104-15) Touch ye not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.¹⁶ (104-16) And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all the support of bread.¹⁷ (104-17) He sent a man before them: Joseph, who was sold for a slave.¹⁸ (104-18) They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul,¹⁹ (104-19) Until his word came. The word of the Lord inflamed him.²⁰ (104-20) The king sent, and he released him: the ruler of the people, and he set him at liberty.²¹ (104-21) He made him master of his house, and ruler of all his possession.²² (104-22) That he might instruct his princes as himself, and teach his ancients wisdom.²³ (104-23) And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Cham.²⁴ (104-24) And he increased his people exceedingly: and strengthened them over their enemies.

²⁵ (104-25) He turned their heart to hate his people: and to deal deceitfully with his servants.²⁶ (104-26) He sent Moses his servant: Aaron the man whom he had chosen.²⁷ (104-27) He gave them power to shew them signs, and his wonders in the land of Cham.²⁸ (104-28) He sent darkness, and made it obscure: and grieved not his words.²⁹ (104-29) He turned their waters into blood, and destroyed their fish.³⁰ (104-30) Their land brought forth frogs, in the inner chambers of their kings.³¹ (104-31) He spoke, and there came divers sorts of flies and sciniphs in all their coasts.³² (104-32) He gave them hail for rain, a burning fire in the land.³³ (104-33) And he destroyed their vineyards and their fig trees: and he broke in pieces the trees of their coasts.³⁴ (104-34) He spoke, and the locust came, and the bruchus, of which there was no number.³⁵ (104-35) And they devoured all the grass in their land, and consumed all the fruit of their ground.³⁶ (104-36) And he slew all the firstborn in their land: the firstfruits of all their labour.³⁷ (104-37) And he brought them out with silver and gold: and there was not among their tribes one that was feeble.³⁸ (104-38) Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them lay upon them.³⁹ (104-39) He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to give them light in the night.⁴⁰ (104-40) They asked, and the quail came: and he filled them with the bread of heaven.⁴¹ (104-41) He opened the rock, and waters flowed: rivers ran down in the dry land.⁴² (104-42) Because he remembered his holy word, which he had spoken to his servant Abraham.⁴³ (104-43) And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness.⁴⁴ (104-44) And he gave them the lands of the Gentiles: and they possessed the labours of the people:⁴⁵ (104-45) That they might observe his justifications, and seek after his law.