¹Give thanks to the Lord,

Call on his name;

Make his deeds known

Among the various peoples.

²Sing to him,

Make psalm melody to him;

Meditate on all his wonders.

³Boast in his holy name.

Let the heart of those who seek the Lord rejoice.

⁴Search for the Lord and his strength;

Seek his presence continually.

⁵Remember his wonders

Which he has performed

– His miracles

And the judgments of his mouth.

⁶The seed of Abraham his servant

– The sons of Jacob –

Are his chosen ones.

⁷He is the Lord our God;

His principles of justice

Are in the whole land.

⁸He remembers his covenant age-abidingly

– The word he commanded to a thousand generations,

⁹The covenant which he made with Abraham –

And his oath to Isaac

¹⁰Which he established as a statute to Jacob,

And as an age-abiding covenant to Israel,

¹¹When he said,

“To you I will give the land of Canaan,

The allocation of your inheritance”,

¹²When they were a small company

– Few, but residents in it.

¹³And they went round from nation to nation

– From one kingdom to another people.

¹⁴He did not permit man to oppress them,

And he reproved kings concerning them,

¹⁵Saying, “Do not touch my anointed ones,

And do not harm my prophets.”

¹⁶Then he called a famine on the land;

He broke every supply of bread.

¹⁷He sent a man before them,

One sold as a servant – Joseph.

¹⁸They afflicted his feet with fetters;

His being went into iron shackles

¹⁹Until the time when his word came.

The utterance of the Lord verified him.

²⁰The king sent orders and released him

– The ruler of nations – who unshackled him.

²¹He appointed him as master of his house

And ruler over all his possessions,

²²With authority to bind his nobles at his will

And to instruct his elders in wisdom.

²³Then Israel came to Egypt,

And Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.

²⁴And he made his people very fruitful,

And he made them stronger than their adversaries.

²⁵He changed their heart to hate his people

– To plot against his servants.

²⁶He sent Moses his servant

And Aaron whom he had chosen.

²⁷They performed the matters of his signs among them

And the miracles in the land of Ham.

²⁸He sent darkness and made it dark,

And they did not rebel against his word.

²⁹He turned their water to blood

And caused their fish to die.

³⁰Their land swarmed with frogs

Which came into the rooms of their kings.

³¹He spoke, and the gadfly came,

And lice in all of their country.

³²He transformed their rain into hail,

And there was blazing fire in their land.

³³And he struck their vines and their fig trees

And broke the trees of their territory.

³⁴He spoke, and the swarming locusts came,

And the devouring locusts,

Which were countless in number.

³⁵And they ate all the herbage in their land,

And they consumed the fruit of their ground.

³⁶Then he struck every firstborn in their land

– The prime of all their strength.

³⁷And he brought them out with silver and gold,

And there was no-one in their tribes who faltered.

³⁸Egypt was pleased at their departure,

For a feeling of dread of them had fallen upon them.

³⁹He spread out a cloud as a covering,

And a fire to give light by night.

⁴⁰The people asked, and he brought quails,

And he satiated them with bread of heaven.

⁴¹He opened a rock, and water flowed;

It ran like a river in an arid place.

⁴²For he remembered his holy word

And Abraham his servant.

⁴³And he brought out his people with rejoicing

– His elect with singing for joy.

⁴⁴And he gave them lands of the Gentiles,

And they inherited the labours of various peoples,

⁴⁵So that they might keep his statutes

And maintain his laws.

Praise the Lord.