Psalms 104
1 Alleluia.
Give thanks to the Lord, and call upon his name; declare his works among the
heathen. 2 Sing to him, yea, sing
praises to him: tell forth all his wonderful works.
3 Glory in his holy name: let the
heart of them that seek the Lord rejoice.
4 Seek ye the Lord, and be
strengthened; seek his face continually.
5 Remember his wonderful works that he
has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;
6 ye seed of
Abraam, his servants, ye children of Jacob, his
chosen ones.
7 He is the Lord our God; his
judgments are in all the earth. 8 He
has remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded for a
thousand generations: 9 which he
established as a covenant to Abraam, and
he remembered his oath to Isaac.
10 And he established it to Jacob for
an ordinance, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant;
11 saying, To thee will I give the
land of Chanaan, the line of your inheritance:
12 when they were few in number, very
few, and sojourners in it. 13 And
they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom
to another people. 14 He suffered no
man to wrong them; and he rebuked kings for their sakes:
15 saying,
Touch not my anointed ones; and do my prophets no harm.
16 Moreover he called for a famine
upon the land; he broke the whole support of bread.
17 He sent a man before them; Joseph
was sold for a slave. 18 They
aGr. humbled.hurt his feet with fetters;
bOr, his body, see Heb.his soul passed into iron, 19 until
the time that his cause came on; the word of the Lord tried him as fire.
20 The king sent and loosed him;
even the prince of the people, and let him go free.
21 He made him lord over his house,
and ruler of all his substance; 22 to
chastise his rulers at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.
23 Israel also came into Egypt, and
Jacob sojourned in the land of Cham.
24 And he increased his people
greatly, and made them stronger than their enemies.
25 And he turned their heart to hate
his people, to deal craftily with his servants.
26 He sent forth Moses his servant,
and Aaron whom he had chosen.
27 He established among them his
signs, and his wonders in the land of Cham.
28 He sent forth darkness, and made
it dark; yet they
cGr. embittered.rebelled against his words. 29 He
turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
30 Their land produced frogs
abundantly, in the chambers of their kings.
31 He spoke, and the dog-fly came,
and lice in all their coasts. 32 He
turned their rain into hail, and sent flaming fire in
their land. 33 And he smote their
vines and their fig-trees; and broke every tree of their coast.
34 He spoke, and the locust came, and
caterpillars innumerable, 35 and
devoured all the grass in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.
36 He smote also every first-born of
their land, the first-fruits of all their labour.
37 And he brought them out with
silver and gold; and there was not a feeble one among their tribes.
38 Egypt rejoiced at their departing;
for the fear of them fell upon them.
39 He spread out a cloud for a
covering to them, and fire to give them light by night.
40 They asked, and the quail came,
and he satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
41 He clave the rock, and the waters
flowed; rivers ran in dry places.
42 For he remembered his holy word,
which he promised to Abraam his servant.
43 And he brought out his people with
exultation, and his chosen with joy;
44 and gave them the lands of the
heathen; and they inherited the labours of the people;
45 that they might keep his
ordinances, and diligently seek his law.