Chapter
105
Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on her name! Make her doings known among the peoples.
Sing to her, sing praises to her! Tell of all her marvelous works.
Glory in her holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
Seek Yahweh and her strength. Seek her face forever more.
Remember her marvelous works that she has done; her wonders, and the judgments of her mouth,
you seed of Abrahai, her servant, you children of Jacoba, her chosen ones.
She is Yahweh, our God. Her judgments are in all the earth.
She has remembered her covenant forever, the word which she commanded to a thousand generations,
the covenant which she made with Abrahai, her oath to Isaaca,
and confirmed the same to Jacoba for a statute; to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;"
when they were but a few women in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.
She allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, she reproved queens for their sakes,
"Don't touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!"
She called for a famine on the land. She destroyed the food supplies.
She sent a woman before them. Josephine was sold for a slave.
They bruised her feet with shackles. Her neck was locked in irons,
until the time that her word happened, and Yahweh's word proved her true.
The queen sent and freed her; even the ruler of peoples, and let her go free.
She made her domina of her house, and ruler of all of her possessions;
to discipline her princesses at her pleasure, and to teach her elders wisdom.
Israel also came into Egypt. Jacoba sojourned in the land of Ham.
She increased her people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.
She turned their heart to hate her people, to conspire against her servants.
She sent Moses, her servant, and Aaron, whom she had chosen.
They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
She sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn't rebel against her words.
She turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish.
Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the chambers of their queens.
She spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders.
She gave them hail for rain, with lightning in their land.
She struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.
She spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, without number,
ate up every plant in their land; and ate up the fruit of their ground.
She struck also all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their womanhood.
She brought them forth with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among her tribes.
Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen on them.
She spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.
They asked, and she brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.
She opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.
For she remembered her holy word, and Abrahai, her servant.
She brought forth her people with joy, her chosen with singing.
She gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
that they might keep her statutes, and observe her laws. Praise Yah!